Ethics in Business
Jehovah's Witnesses and Blood Transfusions:
Whose Choice &Whose Conscience?
Abstract
Jehovah's Witnesses feel that blood transfusions are a source of nutrition and base their refusal to blood transfusions on three biblical passages that prohibits the eating of blood. These texts are: Genesis 9:3&4, Leviticus 17:20, and Acts 15: 28&29
Introduction
Before submitting to any serious medical procedure, a thinking person will learn the possible benefits and risks. What about blood transfusions? They are now a prime …
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…facing this unique challenge. As John Stuart Mill aptly wrote, "No society in which these liberties are not, on the whole, respected, is free, whatever may be its form of government . . . Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest (Mill, JS, 1952)."
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