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To: Cronos
In the late 80’s when reports began coming out of Canada of an infection that seemed to go along with Hepatitis C among a number of transfusion recipients I began to do a bit of research on the subject for myself.

Concerns about the safety of the blood supply caused a movement among surgeons to either eliminate of minimize blood use, not out of religious objections but concern for an infection by an agent they couldn't test for except by it's association with Hepatitis C.

Although even heart surgeries had been performed without transfusions since the early 60’s concern over the safety of the blood supply propelled the movement toward bloodless surgery for strictly medical reasons apart from patients religious views. Today bloodless, no blood transfusion, surgery is common, far more so than even 20 odd years ago.

As to the necessity of blood use or not, I'm not a physician but obviously the number of cases where transfusion is considered necessary has diminished by miles just as the percentage of premature babies treated and surviving has grown due to medical advances.

As with abortion due to medical necessity transfusion of blood for medical necessity is a term proving obsolete.

14 posted on 09/17/2011 1:50:45 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

Let’s see your documentation. You can cite anonymous sources all you want, but until you provide any documented sources, please don’t push your lapsed religion here. There are a few of us on this forum who can spot a lapsed but fully believing JW from a mile away.


16 posted on 09/17/2011 9:18:56 AM PDT by NorthStarStateConservative (Springtime in America will arrive on January 21, 2013.)
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