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...Buddha posited no creator God; no Jehovah, Jesus or Allah. His Truths are so distinct from the primary concerns of other faiths that some Western observers see Buddhism as a philosophy or even a psychology. By the same logic, employed optimistically by Jewish, Protestant and Catholic Buddhists of the late 20th century, Buddhist practice can be maintained without leaving one's faith of birth...
...carrying compound in his red cells--had plummeted from a normal reading of 13 to an ominous 1.7, a number that one of his doctors characterized as "incompatible with survival." A blood transfusion could save him, but his wife, torn between her husband's life and their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses--a religious community that prohibits transfusions because of biblical references to the sacredness of blood--had refused. Eventually, at the urging of members of her community, and in the face of a hospital threat of a court order to thwart her, Claudette Jackson had Henry transferred to nearby...
Still, even as the practice seemingly thumbs its nose at mainstream medicine's historic reliance on transfusion (more than 14 million units were used in the U.S. last year alone), an increasing number of physicians are taking a harder look at bloodless medicine. According to the Jehovah's Witnesses, more than 75,000 doctors already practice bloodless surgery in the U.S. Also, more and more patients are clamoring for safer and more effective options than transfusions, either because of religious conviction or fear of contracting disease...
...Jehovah's Witnesses, who have long demanded equal medical care without having to compromise their religious beliefs, have made up some 90% of those who seek the bloodless techniques. But increasing numbers of other patients today refuse transfusions out of fear of blood-borne diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis, not to mention unidentified viruses...
...Timothy McVeigh trial is under way; or that the rugged Warthog would be a perfect plane to sell to a militia unit. There were reports, on CNN and elsewhere, that Button may have been suicidal because he was upset over the recent conversion of his mother to the Jehovah's Witness faith, which espouses antiwar beliefs. But Button's father Richard, a veteran pilot who flew in three wars, and his mother Joan released a statement on Saturday saying they have both been "active" Jehovah's Witnesses for more than 20 years. Air Force officials say it is more likely...