The Dominicans are a Catholic religious order. The Catholic church takes no position against Blood transfusions as a normal medical practice. The Jehovah"s Witnesses and Christian Science ( two separate faiths) are OPPOSED to blood transfusions- and a good deal else! I have never even seen questions about Blood Transfusions in any Catholic religious q and a columns- including those on the internet such as Catholic Answers. no red light. Pun intended) on the cross- feed valves
Blood transfusions are not taboo in the Catholic church. =Answer= The above poster is correct and you are thinking of Jehovah Witness.
Yes, Seventh-day Adventists do believe in blood transfusions. You may be confusing Seventh-day Adventists with Jehovah's Witnesses, who are an entirely separate denomination.
In medicine, women prefer to have a woman overseeing their medical care, and men prefer male doctors. There are no religious objections to blood transfusions, however Hindu people believe in reincarnation with a cause and effect relationship.
Yes, they simply refuse blood transfusions - all other procedures they accept
Nowadays blood is screened for illnesses before it is used in transfusions.
Because blood is screened and sterilized before transfusions.
The group is know as "Jehovah's Witnesses". They believe that receiving blood transfusions are the same as drinking blood, which is stickily forbidden in the old testament law and repeated in the new testament book of Acts where Gentile believers were to "they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication." The problem comes down to whither or not transfusions are drinking blood or not.
I believe so. I once heard of blood transfusions from pigs. If this is true, than pigs must also have blood types.
Blood transfusions.
Charles Drew expanded the knowledge of blood banking and blood transfusions.
You sure can! You are just unable to give or donate blood from now on.
normal saline is compatible to blood