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TexasBushwhacker

(20,647 posts)
18. Jehovah's Witnesses won't get transfusions
Tue Nov 23, 2021, 05:54 PM
Nov 2021

They can't even donate their own blood to be used during surgery. A woman who is hemorrhaging after childbirth will get a hysterectomy rather than get a transfusion.

He is thus choosing poorly.... FarPoint Nov 2021 #1
"I don't think anyone should lose their livelihood over this." 3catwoman3 Nov 2021 #2
An actor on Young and Restless was fired for not observing Covid protocols Freddie Nov 2021 #3
No one should lose their livelihoods, but their very lives a-okay. onecaliberal Nov 2021 #4
Burton will be sorry. Everyone needs to be vaccinated. In_The_Wind Nov 2021 #5
What a dummy. skylucy Nov 2021 #6
Yikes! Mike Nelson Nov 2021 #7
Where will they ever find another shitty actor? dem4decades Nov 2021 #8
I hear a guy living in Florida whistler162 Nov 2021 #20
good riddance to them both mercuryblues Nov 2021 #9
Don't let the door hit you MontanaMama Nov 2021 #10
795,598 deaths in the US! barbtries Nov 2021 #11
Oh, for heaven's sake. peacefreak2.0 Nov 2021 #12
My next door is a Lutheran Pastor and he told me there is nothing in the Bible (old/new), the Botany Nov 2021 #13
The only two denominations/sects of Christianity that don't believe in medical care AFAIK. Thomas Hurt Nov 2021 #14
I think Seventh-day Adventists have something about transfusions but i might be wrong but ... Botany Nov 2021 #15
Jehovah's Witnesses won't get transfusions TexasBushwhacker Nov 2021 #18
Too bad he didn't play a healthcare worker Shermann Nov 2021 #16
So even fake hospitals are suffering? GPV Nov 2021 #17
They could write them out as anti-vax casualties. n/t Harker Nov 2021 #19
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