Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 3:57AM "But real blood has many inconveniences. It requires refrigeration, which means ambulances can't stock it and medics can't administer it on the battlefield. It goes bad after 42 days. Donor blood must be compatible with the patient's blood type. And some people refuse transfusions — Jehovah's Witnesses, for instance, believe the Bible forbids them."
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 8:02AM 
Columbian film-maker, Andres NinoA Columbian film-maker living in Canada received weekly visits from a Jehovah's Witness minister. The return visits apparently provided him with the fodder to produce a movie on Jehovah's Witnesses focusing on their refusal to take blood transfusions. His movie is entitled: Kingdom of Chains.
Personally, I wonder why people are not much more horrified by the willingness and even eagerness of "Christians" to support military efforts to kill and dispossess their fellowman.Do you know, for example, that Reverend Grahm (Son of famed Billy Grahm) is all in favor of the US nuking Isalmic countries. Where is the outrage over these kinds of comments by prominent evangelicals?
Anyway, Andres is probably also unaware that far more people die from taking blood trasfusions, due to hemolytic reactions and disease transmission, than from refusing them.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 12:28PM
"Long dominated by Jehovah’s Witnesses — whose faith forbids blood transfusions — bloodless surgeries and blood conservation programs are now attracting mainstream patients worried about what some experts say are clear risks, including more infections, longer recuperation, increased illness and even death."
