veggibles@lemmy.wtf to

World News@quokk.au · 1 month ago

Jehovah’s Witnesses partly ease ban on medical use of donated blood

87

Jehovah’s Witnesses partly ease ban on medical use of donated blood

veggibles@lemmy.wtf to

World News@quokk.au · 1 month ago

Jehovah’s Witnesses allow blood-derived products but keep ban on whole-blood transfusions

The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their ban on the medical use of donated blood. Members can now receive products derived from blood, but transfusions of whole blood remain prohibited.

Chat

Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zip
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
7·
1 month ago
someone actually important in their heirarchy needed a blood transfusion, probably

World News@quokk.au

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Rules:
Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.

Other Great News Communities:

Rules

Be excellent to each other

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

741 users / day
2.09K users / week
4.27K users / month
10.4K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
2.53K subscribers
7.9K Posts
23.3K Comments
Modlog