Im Oktober 2000 erklärte Der Wachtturm, für Zeugen Jehovas gelte: ‘do not donate blood, nor do we store for transfusion our blood’; die Praxis, vor einer Operation eigenes Blut zu hinterlegen, ‘conflicts with God’s law’.

The Watchtower, “Questions From Readers”

15. Oktober 2000 · pp.30-31 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Hence, we do not donate blood, nor do we store for transfusion our blood that should be ‘poured out.’ That practice conflicts with God’s law.”

The question asked was: ‘In the light of Bible commands about the proper use of blood, how do Jehovah’s Witnesses view medical procedures using one’s own blood?’ The article said that depositing one’s own blood weeks before surgery ‘directly contradicts’ Leviticus and Deuteronomy, while procedures in which the patient’s blood stays in a continuous circuit (haemodilution, cell salvage, heart-lung machines, dialysis) were left for each Christian to decide.

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