Posted by Friend [Friend] on November 18, 1999 at 12:36:32 {KEdmzBXaT6aeLUfC4reYOgnjR4Br/g}:
In Reply to: To Liberal Elder/Blood Quest. posted by WotM on November 18, 1999 at 12:05:04:
WitnessOnTheMoon
Can you provide an authoritative quote (or several if possible) that shows that some blood components that are banned by the Society are able to cross the placental barrier?
It should interest you that what goes through the placenta has nothing to do with identity of components and everything to do with size. That small enough gets through, period. That is why viruses, drugs and alcohol go from mother to fetus in short order.
Have read what the Society says about plasma versus the placenta? It says:
Formed elements (cells) from the mother’s blood do not cross the placental barrier into the fetus’ blood, nor does the plasma as such.—Questions From Readers, The Watchtower, 1990 6/1: 31
It states that plasma does not cross the placenta “as such.” All that means is that the placenta respects size, which requires elements to pass through at a small enough size irrespective of how they were formerly combined. In the case of plasma it means that components comprising that commonly known as plasma go through the placenta more or less as individual elements rather than one combined substance. As for what comprises plasma, practically all of it makes it into the fetus, including THE largest component of blood, water.
Interestingly, the fetus eats off the mother’s blood because nutritional elements are—necessarily—small enough to make it through the placenta. Does that mean we can eat the nutrition from blood but not the nucleus containing components in blood?
Friend