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The Watchtower called organ transplants 'cannibalism' in 1967, then reversed course entirely by 1980 and 1994 — without acknowledging the change.

Blood Transfusions: Facts, Fictions and Fractions - Refuting The Watchtower 00:21:00 – 00:24:39

Mike uses the organ transplant doctrinal reversal as a parallel case to demonstrate Watchtower's pattern of silent doctrinal hypocrisy.

Watchtower, November 15, 1967, p. 702: Organ transplants are cannibalism because recipients are 'living off the flesh of another human.' Watchtower, March 15, 1980, p. 31: 'There is no biblical command pointedly forbidding the taking in of other human tissue. It is a matter for personal decision.' Awake, May 22, 1994, p. 7: Praises a 3-year-old JW child (Chandra Sharp) who received a heart transplant at Cleveland Clinic, performed without blood by Dr. Charles Frasier, as a positive and God-honoring story. Mike notes the contradiction: by 1967 logic, the child committed cannibalism; by 1994 logic, she honored God.

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