does any religion state that we are not allowed to sell blood? Does the law ban the selling of blood?
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I don't know if it is on paper, but I am sure Fundamental Christians don't agree with blood transfusions at ALL. They feel "God will provide", and I assume, bleed to death. \n*same goes for organ transplants
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If someone is anemic or has sickle cell anemia they shouldn't be able to give blood.
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Donating blood isn't always as easy it seems. There is a screening process that everyone must go through before being able to do so. \n\nThere could be several reasons why you can't give blood. If you take medications, certain medicine prevents you from donating blood or if you do donate, your blood has to be given to someone who takes the same kind of medicine. For instance if you are on a keto-steroid such as cortisone which is taken for many reasons such as Asthma or glandular problems, you can not donate blood or plasma unless you are donating to someone who takes cortisone. \n\nYou also may not be able to donate because of the fact you had a brain hemorage which is a bleed from an artery in the brain. Even though the injury happened years agao, you still could have problems or health issues from that injury. Doctor's could be concerned taking blood from you could be dangerous to your health or possibly someone else's. \n\nAnother reason is you might not be healthy enough to donate. Blood and plasma donations require you to be as healthy as possible, such as no major disease like Hepatitis or AIDS. If you have a weak immune system and are prone to catching viruses or your general health just isn't top notch, the blood center can turn you away.\n\nTalk to your doctor or a blood donation center. If you really want to donate maybe there is something you can change in your daily life style that will allow you to do so, such as changing medications, exercising more, or eating healthy foods. \n\nIn the end however, you may just have to realize that your blood is tainted for some reason or another and you are not able to donate.
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Without pasting a book in here from another webpage and without adding info that you didn't ask for: you can accept A and O, anything other than that will kill you. The existing blood will attack the new blood.
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There is any forbidden about it in Islam. We re allowed in the propriate clothing like hijab. And this should be that way you cant question it.
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Are those folks still around? Kentucky had a real huge problem with religious snake handlers back in the seventies, and I have slept since then, but the snake handlers took their views to the supreme court I think, but like I said I have slept since then. \n\nFreedom of religion ends when it is life threatening. Jehovah's Witness have had children taken away from them because they would not allow blood transfusion to save the child's life. \n\nIn the seventies in this same state of Kentucky people went to jail for snake handling and the snakes killed people. \n\nJudges have sent people to prison for refusing to take their children to the doctor when the child died because their religion does not believe in doctors, but miraculous healing. \n\nI am all for freedom of religion, but I am also all for the authorities stepping in to save lives when the religion gets out of hand. \n\nIf it does not harm anyone, then I am all for freedom of religion.
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In 1647, the English parliament under Oliver Cromwell made Christmas celebration illegal (considering feasting and celebration on a holy day to be immoral).   That law was repealed.\n\nThe Holy Days and Fasting Days Act of 1551, which among other things forbade the use of any kind of transportation on Christmas, has never been repealed.
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Currently, it is not legal in this country. Plasma, yes, but whole blood, no. That is why we have so many blood banks around the country that count on their donors to keep up the supply.\n\nAnd for the benefit of hot sing, as a Mason I served for several years as a chairman of our blood bank. The ONLY income to a non-profit bank is from the sale of whole blood, serums and donations. The expenses are very high.
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Christians are commanded to ‘abstain from blood’\n\nActs 15:28, 29: “The holy spirit and we ourselves [the governing body of the Christian congregation] have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled [or, killed without draining their blood] and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!” (There the eating of blood is equated with idolatry and fornication, things that we should not want to engage in.)\n\nAnimal flesh may be eaten, but not the blood\n\nGen. 9:3, 4: “Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for you. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give it all to you. Only flesh with its soul—its blood—you must not eat.”\n\nAny animal used for food should be properly bled. One that is strangled or that dies in a trap or that is found after it has died is not suitable for food. (Acts 15:19, 20; compare Leviticus 17:13-16.) Similarly, any food to which whole blood or even some blood fraction has been added should not be eaten.\n\nOnly sacrificial use of blood has ever been approved by God\n\nLev. 17:11, 12: “The soul of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have put it upon the altar for you to make atonement for your souls, because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul in it. That is why I have said to the sons of Israel: ‘No soul of you must eat blood and no alien resident who is residing as an alien in your midst should eat blood.’” (All those animal sacrifices under the Mosaic Law foreshadowed the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ.)\nEph. 1:7: “By means of him [Jesus Christ] we have the release by ransom through the blood of that one, yes, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his undeserved kindness.”\n\nHow did those who claimed to be Christians in early centuries C.E. understand the Bible’s commands regarding blood?\n\nTertullian (c. 160-230 C.E.): “Let your unnatural ways blush before the Christians. We do not even have the blood of animals at our meals, for these consist of ordinary food. . . . At the trials of Christians you [pagan Romans] offer them sausages filled with blood. You are convinced, of course, that the very thing with which you try to make them deviate from the right way is unlawful for them. How is it that, when you are confident that they will shudder at the blood of an animal, you believe they will pant eagerly after human blood?”—Tertullian, \n\nBlood Transfusions\n\nDoes the Bible’s prohibition include human blood?\n\nYes, and early Christians understood it that way. Acts 15:29 says to “keep abstaining from . . . blood.” It does not say merely to abstain from animal blood. (Compare Leviticus 17:10, which prohibited eating “any sort of blood.”) Tertullian (who wrote in defense of the beliefs of early Christians) stated: “The interdict upon ‘blood’ we shall understand to be (an interdict) much more upon human blood.”—The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV, p. 86.\n\nIs a transfusion really the same as eating blood?\n\nIn a hospital, when a patient cannot eat through his mouth, he is fed intravenously. Now, would a person who never put blood into his mouth but who accepted blood by transfusion really be obeying the command to “keep abstaining from . . . blood”? (Acts 15:29) To use a comparison, consider a man who is told by the doctor that he must abstain from alcohol. Would he be obedient if he quit drinking alcohol but had it put directly into his veins?\n\nIn the case of a patient that refuses blood, are there any alternative treatments?\n\nOften simple saline solution, Ringer’s solution, and dextran can be used as plasma volume expanders, and these are available in nearly all modern hospitals. Actually, the risks that go with use of blood transfusions are avoided by using these substances.  \n\nAll ty
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I can only speak from my own experience.  The disease my son had required that he get transfusions as often as every day.  The blood he received was not on the list of charges we received (even though he was covered by insurance, the hospital he was at was not a part of our insurance and we got an itemized list of all charges).  Now, perhaps people ARE charged for the actual blood they receive, but there is a law that requires all people are given medical care regardless of their ability to pay.  They won't be left to suffer or die.  When my husband did not have insurance, he was still given excellent care, he just ended up with a large bill at the end of it all.\n\nAnother disclaimer...the blood he received was not from Red Cross, it was from a "local" blood bank.
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They believe that blood transfusions are a sin, WRONG, blood trans. have saved so many lifes they are amiracle of God. That belief is taken out of context.  They would wring there hands if they saw you take a little wine, Jesus preformed the miracle of turning water into wine at a wedding reception, they don,t believe in wedding receptions. We are actually told that a little wine is good for the tummy, but DO NOT drink so much as to become drunk  so that you act like a moron, I could go on & on but I wont, I have some sweet JW neighbors.  However, if you don,t believe in the miracles of Jesus, what is your religion really about?\n\nBlubla
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I believe the Jahovah's Witness Church does not allow people to give or receive blood, but I am not sure what their reason is.
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i hope your talking about an intimate act with someone you wish to be VERY close with, and not the general public.  a little bit of blood is not harmful, unless the "donor" is ill.  small cuts in areas not seen by the general public is a good idea.  no need for others to know about such practices.
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it is saying that you can not buy a Gods people as slaves that only the heathen the non-believers the pagans as they are called today can be bought as slaves. read the whole chapter and it will make more sense.
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I have never seen any verse in the Bible that suggests that we should not have a blood transfusion. All it says is that the life of the flesh is in the blood. That's the precise reason why we give transfusions. Transfuse away!
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Why shouldn't it be legal?  "Selling is legal, having consentual sex is legal.  Why isn't selling consentual sex legal!?  Why is it illegal to sell something that is perfectly legal to give away?"  -  George Carlin\n\nI think this is the best prostitution argument of them all.\n\nThen comes "If you bet a woman $50 she can't give you an orgasm, is that gambling or prostitution?"\n\nSorry, I don't know if it's legal there.
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No.  The actual blood is not something that has a cash value in our society (plus it is illegal to sell blood).  However, you can possibly deduct the mileage or transportation fees necessary to get you to and from the donation.