It is a small revolution in the doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses, which is considered to be very strict. In an official statement issued on September 18, the organization founded in the United States in the 1870s by Charles Russell has relaxed its doctrine of blood transfusion: its members can now accept a transfer of plasma, platelets, white or red blood cells, provided that it is not a total transfusion of blood, a practice hitherto strictly pr…
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It is a small revolution in the doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses, which is considered to be very strict. In an official statement issued on September 18, the organization founded in the United States in the 1870s by Charles Russell has relaxed its doctrine of blood transfusion: its members can now accept a transfer of plasma, platelets, white or red blood cells, provided that it is not a total transfusion of blood, a practice hitherto strictly pr…