ARE JEHOVAH’S WITNESS NO-BLOOD SUBSTITUTES AN EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE?
We have several newspaper reports of the Jehovah’s Witnesses whose lives have been lost over the Watchtower policy against blood transfusions. If their substitute bloodless surgery options were so good, why are so many dying? One report we have is about a mother who died after giving birth due to birth complications that resulted in serious loss of blood. 1. The volume expanders that the Watchtower policy provided for her could not save her life because these volume expanders do not carry oxygen as only human blood can. Here again, we see a clear example where a blood transfusion would have saved the woman’s life. Yet, Jehovah’s Witnesses are taught to view this tragedy as a “test of loyalty” claiming that the mother forfeited her physical life to gain spiritual life with Jehovah. We say that this is a sick twisting of the carnage this Scripture-twisted Watchtower policy has wrecked upon many lives. Jehovah’s Witnesses elders often show up at the hospital to pressure Jehovah’s Witness
