The Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses has announced that members can now decide whether to accept or donate the four main components of blood based on their personal conscience. According to a statement from its World Headquarters in Warwick, New York, the decision to accept red cells, white cells, plasma, or platelets from another person's blood is a matter of personal conscience. Each Witness must decide whether or not to donate blood for the purpose of providing components or fractions for use by another person. However, the organization said its position on whole-blood transfusion remains unchanged, citing the long-standing refusal based on the command to 'abstain from blood' (Acts 15:20).
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