Blood transfusion: Follow your heart, Jehovah’s Witness tells members
Jehovah’s Witnesses now permit members to decide, based on personal conscience, whether to accept blood components like red cells, plasma, or platelets. Read More: https://punchng.com/blood-transfusion-follow-your-heart-jehovahs-witness-tells-members/
Jehovah's Witnesses have changed their policy on blood transfusions, allowing members to decide for themselves whether to accept certain blood components. According to the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, members can now individually decide whether to accept red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, or platelets from another person's blood, based on personal conscience.
This decision applies to accepting these components from another person's blood and also to donating blood for the purpose of providing components or fractions for another person's medical treatment. However, the organisation's longstanding position against whole-blood transfusions remains unchanged, as per a statement from its World Headquarters in Warwick, New York.
The decision regarding blood components is a matter of individual conscience, as stated by Paul Gillies, international spokesman for Jehovah's Witnesses.
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