Bestandteile, die offizielle Publikationen von 1990 bis September 2026 als nicht annehmbar einstuften (rote Blutkörperchen, weiße Blutkörperchen, Blutplättchen und Plasma), dürfen nun als persönliche Entscheidung angenommen werden. Für einen Patienten, der heute Zeuge Jehovas ist, unterscheiden sich die Möglichkeiten, die ohne Folgen seitens der Versammlung gewählt werden können, daher wesentlich von denen, die den 1994 und 2019 beschriebenen jungen Menschen offenstanden.
Claim ID claim-blood-2026-options-materially-changedConcerns 18. September 2026Zusammenhang
Bestandteile, die offizielle Publikationen von 1990 bis September 2026 als nicht annehmbar einstuften (rote Blutkörperchen, weiße Blutkörperchen, Blutplättchen und Plasma), dürfen nun als persönliche Entscheidung angenommen werden. Für einen Patienten, der heute Zeuge Jehovas ist, unterscheiden sich die Möglichkeiten, die ohne Folgen seitens der Versammlung gewählt werden können, daher wesentlich von denen, die den 1994 und 2019 beschriebenen jungen Menschen offenstanden. Source: How Can Blood Save Your Life? (brochure), 1990Source: The Watchtower, 15. Oktober 2000Source: JW.org (Questions From Readers), 18. September 2026
1990 · footnote to par. 12 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Witnesses do not accept transfusions of whole blood, red cells, white cells, platelets, or blood plasma.”
The footnote continues by referring readers to The Watchtower of 1 June 1990, pages 30–31, for minor fractions such as immune globulin. The section describes non-blood volume expanders (saline, dextran, Haemaccel, lactated Ringer’s solution, hetastarch) as acceptable.
Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for How Can Blood Save Your Life? (brochure), Quality Alternatives to Transfusion
Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe.Text opened on JW.org on 19 September 2026 and the footnote wording confirmed. The 1990 publication year is the brochure’s own imprint date as catalogued by the Watchtower Online Library (publication code hb); the JW.org page does not display a year.
15. Oktober 2000 · pp.30-31 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Hence, we do not donate blood, nor do we store for transfusion our blood that should be ‘poured out.’ That practice conflicts with God’s law.”
The question asked was: ‘In the light of Bible commands about the proper use of blood, how do Jehovah’s Witnesses view medical procedures using one’s own blood?’ The article said that depositing one’s own blood weeks before surgery ‘directly contradicts’ Leviticus and Deuteronomy, while procedures in which the patient’s blood stays in a continuous circuit (haemodilution, cell salvage, heart-lung machines, dialysis) were left for each Christian to decide.
18. September 2026 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“After further prayerful consideration, the Governing Body has decided that this same principle applies to the four primary components of whole blood—red cells, white cells, plasma, and platelets—that are derived from another person’s blood. Therefore, each Christian must make his own personal decision about the use of these four primary components in all medical and surgical care.”
The article also states that Witnesses ‘do not accept transfusions of whole blood, nor do we donate blood that would be used as a whole blood transfusion to another person’, that each Christian must decide whether to donate blood ‘for the clearly expressed purpose of providing components or fractions’, and that it reflects what was shared in the 2026 Governing Body Update #6 and will appear in a future issue of The Watchtower.
Notes.The article carries the note: ‘This article reflects what was shared in the 2026 Governing Body Update #6 and will appear in a future issue of The Watchtower.’ It also states the Governing Body ‘is not authorized to “go beyond the things that are written”’ (1 Corinthians 4:6).
Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung.src-jw-2026-0918-qfr-respect-life
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