Wikipedia's article on Jehovah's Witnesses and blood transfusions, read directly for this pass, which states that the first statement on blood transfusion appeared in the Watchtower of 1 July 1945, extending the scriptural blood prohibition to transfusion, and that the original statement specified no penalty for accepting one; by January 1961 the organization ruled that conscientiously accepting a transfusion was a disfellowshipping offense, described in the source as an application of increased strictness.
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A community-edited tertiary reference, not peer-reviewed, but the two dates it supplies, the 1 July 1945 Watchtower and the January 1961 disfellowshipping ruling, are corroborated across the outside search results read alongside it and carry no live dispute; used for the settled institutional dates, not for interpreting the underlying doctrine. NotesCited for the 1 July 1945 Watchtower statement extending the blood prohibition to transfusion, and the January 1961 ruling making acceptance a disfellowshipping offense.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses_and_blood_transfusions
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