Article in Chicago Tribune on Blood Transfusions

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-jehovahs-witness-sw-zone-15jul15,0,6267636.story

"I knew I'd rather die than break one of God's laws," she said.

Thanks for posting purps, the comments are pretty good, there is a nurse who has some good posts and also bluewaters has some very interesting information, including the following:

Hemodilution is Wrong!!

Operating with Stored Blood

Men of science are constantly developing new methods for performing surgical operations. The Journal of the American Medical Association, dated November 15, 1971, described a procedure for open-heart surgery that employs sever hemodilution. Early in the operation a large quantity of blood is drawn off into a plastic blood bag. Though the bag is left connected to the patient by a tube, the removed and stored blood is no longer circulating in the patient's system. It is replaced with a plasma volume expander, which dilutes the blood remaining in the veins and which gradually dissipates during the operative procedure. Near the conclusion of the operation the blood storage bag is elevated, and the stored blood is reinfused into the patient..... These techniques are noteworthy to Christians, since they run counter to God's Word. The Bible shows that blood is not to be taken out of a body, stored and then later reused.
- Awake 4/8/72 29-30 Watching the World - Emphasis added.

Hemodilution now mentioned favorably!

It is with this in mind, and not just to honor the requests of Jehovah's Witnesses, that Denton Cooley [of Houston, Texas] has performed open-heart operations now for over seven years, limiting transfusions wherever possible by substituting hemodilution, diluting the patient's blood with a glucose and heparin solution. If this method has given excellent results since then ... one wonders why it has not been extended to present-day surgery.
- Awake 83 3/22/83 p.16

HEMODILUTION IS OK!!!!

But what if the doctor says that, during surgery or in the course of other treatment, your blood would be channeled through equipment outside your body, and then, right back in? Would you consent? Some have felt that, with a clear conscience, they could permit this, provided that the equipment was primed with a nonblood fluid. They have viewed the external equipment as an extension of their circulatory system. Of course, situations vary, and it is you that must decide.
- United in Worship of the Only True God, 1983, p. 158 {Compare this to 1961, above.}

FLIP FLOP, FLIP FLOP, FLIP FLOP, FLIP FLOP.....
How many JWs needlessly died before 1983 due to not being able to use hemodilution machines? Now, the New York hospital can use them in their "bloodless" heart surgery and tout that they save JWs. The Inconvenient Truth