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====[[Jehovah's Witnesses: Views on Blood|Blood]]Transfusions====

God told Noah and his family that "...blood was forbidden, you shall not eat. " (Genesis 9:3-4) He then reiterated this in the Law of Moses, or the Mosaic Law. (Leviticus 7:26; 17:10; Deuteronomy 12:16) Many believe that after the Mosiac Law was abolished by Christ's death that the Law against blood does not apply. However, in The Jehovah's Witnesses believe that drinking blood as well as receiving blood transfusions are immoral acts. *Basic Argument Against Blood Transfusions: In a list of things that Christians were forbidden to do, since there was confusion because the Law had been abolished, the disciples said that Christians were supposed to abstain from blood. (Acts 15:28, 29) To illustrate: If a doctor told a man that he was to drink no more alcohol, would it be okay for the man to insert the alcohol into his veins? Hardly. Since God told man to abstain from blood, inserting it into your veins would not be abstaining from blood. *Basic Argument for Blood Transfusions: The Law only prohibits ''drinking'' blood, ''not'' blood transfusions, because (a) blood transfusions were not in existence in Biblical times, and (b) ingesting blood can be very unhealthy (hence why it was prohibited by God). However, blood transfusions are ''not'' unhealthy, and in fact have saved millions of lives. The argument from the "alcohol analogy" is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_analogy false analogy], because whether drinking alcohol or directly injecting it into one's body will have the same physical effect (both are unhealthy), whereas receiving a blood transfusion will have a different effect from drinking blood (the former is healthy, the latter is not).