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Organ Transplants

Organ Transplants

As with blood, the Watchtower Society (WTS) originally had no objections to organ transplants. In a Questions from Readers section in The Watchtower, Aug. 1, 1961, page 480, the question about organ transplants is answered pointedly: "Is there anything in the Bible...

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Blood Transfusions – What are the risks?

Blood Transfusions – What are the risks?

The typical Jehovah's Witness believes that blood transfusions are bad medicine and the equivalent of playing Russian Roulette. They have been so thoroughly indoctrinated about the risks by the Watchtower Society that the mere thought is abhorrent to many of them....

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Share Their Story – Honor Their Legacy

Share Their Story – Honor Their Legacy

Help us document and remember the lives of Jehovah's Witnesses who have passed away due to refusing blood transfusions. This helps provide us with the information we need to convince governments and the legal community about the scope and impact of Watchtower's policy...

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Components of Blood are the Issue

Components of Blood are the Issue

By Dieter Parczany During the early 1990's, I was a member of the Hospital Liaison Committee (HLC) in Berlin, Germany. Since I was a Jehovah’s Witness elder with special training and knowledge about Watchtower's blood policies, I served as the chairman of the...

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Hematologist Helps Open the Eyes of Pregnant JW

Hematologist Helps Open the Eyes of Pregnant JW

I looked forward to the birth of my third child. I had decided on a surgical birth (my third cesarean). Since each subsequent cesarean is more likely to become complicated, I would be at a higher risk of blood loss during and after the operation, and as an active...

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Chaunte Cardwell – from Near Death to Freedom

Chaunte Cardwell – from Near Death to Freedom

Shortly after I was born, my parents decided to become Jehovah’s Witnesses. My dad was an elder, and everyone in our family pioneered during the summer while I was growing up. I was baptized in 1986 at thirteen years of age, in Ogden, Utah. We were the picture-perfect...

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