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 make individual decisions based on personal conscience. They can now choose whether to accept red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, or platelets from another person's blood.
The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses announced this change, according to the Daily Post Nigeria, in a statement from its World Headquarters in Warwick, New York. The organisation emphasised that its longstanding position against whole-blood transfusions remains unchanged.
Members must also decide for themselves whether to donate blood components for another person's medical treatment. According to Paul Gillies, international spokesman for Jehovah’s Witnesses, the decision regarding blood components is a matter of individual conscience.
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