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Fighting for Your Right to Choose: Why Directed Blood Donor Legislation Matters

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Ya’ll, THIS is why we (www.blessedbyhisblood.com) do what we do. We’ve had parents who have been threatened by the medical establishment to get CPS involved and to remove their child from their custody simply because they asked to use directed donors. This is a REAL and common occurrence. The medical establishment and blood industry are stepping on our personal rights to choose WHAT goes into our bodies.
 
 
BBHB is working on legislation nationwide to STOP this. If you are interested in helping in your own state, please reach out to government.relations@blessedbyhisblood.com.
 
Huge thank you to Texas Senator Bob Hall and Texas Representative Joanne Shofner who are championing this cause in the Texas State Capitol.
 

Why SB125 Matters: Fighting for Medical Freedom in Blood Donation

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This is why I do what I do, and why I’ve been on the road and in Austin (and to DC last week) so frequently this year (and in 2023). Thank you Bob Hall for being our champion and authoring SB125. (Sadly, once again this bill did not get heard because it got “slow walked” by one key person in the House resulting in it not being heard despite its level of support. This is not a party issue, it’s a health issue and a medical freedom issue.)
We need Federal HHS awareness and support to stop the blood industry from being more concerned about profit than patient care. 🙏
It’s Not A %, It’s Humans
Wow. How exactly would “directed donor blood orders jeopardize 99.9% of the blood provided to the hospitals today when it’s been a common practice for decades?
Fact: During the 1980’s and 1990’s, it was a standard pre-surgery practice to ask the patient if they wanted to use directed donor blood. The blood industry is a lucrative multibillion dollar industry, and the United States supplies more than 70% of the world’s blood products. They also profitably sell blood to the pharmaceutical industry (there are many products made with human blood components) and to research organizations. The reality is that when a directed donor bag of blood is bar coded for a specific patient, it belongs to that patient. It cannot be cherry picked and sold for a higher dollar amount elsewhere because of something unique, rare, or special found in that bag of blood. An estimated 10-15% of the multibillion-dollar biologics leg of the pharmaceutical industry is reliant upon human blood cells for production. For what it’s worth, altruistically donated blood which is sold to the pharmaceutical industry for the production of biologics will (on average) cost the consumer patient anywhere from about $30K a year up to $1Million. (That’s a pretty great business model!) We would like to ask, are the objections to SB125 reflective of patient care or profit care?
Thank you @SenatorBobHall for fighting for the rights of all Texans!

Fighting for Access to Directed Donor Blood: Why SB125 Matters

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Blessed By His Blood

“Special Blood” = Life
Thank you Texas State @SenatorBobHall, for authoring SB125 in Texas’ 89th Legislative session.
Meili and her sister have a rare blood disorder which requires monthly blood transfusions for them to be healthy. Early in their lives, their hematologist told their parents that the children would have a much better chance of thriving if they received directed donor blood. Their parents reached out to their community, and found kind committed donors who rotationally give blood to the girls. They have had the same set of donors for over 10 years. In 2023, the blood bank quietly began denying doctor’s written orders for directed donor blood, not just for these girls, but for every directed donor order written. In the summer of 2023, both girls got really sick from receiving blood from the anonymous blood pool (a fact that was not even acknowledged by the blood bank representatives during the bill hearings). The girl’s parents were finally able to find a different transfusion center that is serviced by a different blood bank who were willing to work with them, but they live with the fear of knowing that their access to “special blood” could be turned off at any time.
Directed donor blood generally tends to be fresher than anonymous donor blood. As blood ages in a bag, there is an increased risk of transfusion related injury, including death, blood clots, multi-organ dysfunction, increased hospital stay time, and decreased oxygen carrying capacity. Additionally, not all blood is equal in terms of quality. For example, the blood of a healthy 20-year-old athlete would be superior to a 50-year-old blood donor who eats a Standard American Diet and is on the typical average of 2-4 medications.

“Victory in the Senate – Let’s Keep the Momentum for Medical Freedom!”

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Are you following any state bills related to improving health and healthcare this legislative season? If so, which one(s) in your state?
 
Kudos to the Texas Senate on passing unanimously SB25 (labeling of dangerous food additives),
and on SB125 (preserves the right to directed blood donation). I’ve been working hard on this for 2 years now. 🙏 #medicalfreedom
 
Now….. both of these bills have to also make it through the House affirmatively. Please pray! (And I’ll be praying for the bills you are rooting for in your state)
 
Not normally a fan of CNN, but it’s encouraging to see them post positively about this! https://www.cnn.com/…/food-dye-bans-states…/index.html
 

March Madness: Floods, Flights, and Fighting for Truth

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My Spring schedule is definitely on “in like a lion status”🦁😂🌬. In the last 20 days, my office was massively flooded by a broken fire sprinkler system pipe (its a mess, over 100K in damages/cleanup, but i am so grateful for the amazing people/companies who have been helping🙏🙏), I traveled thru 5 states, taught saw and enjoyed the company of a beautiful farming community in Ohio (still need to post pictures on that trip), came home, changed suitcases, ran to Austin to speak as invited testimony in a Senate hearing regarding SB125 which will protect and preserve the right to directed donor blood (THANK YOU Senator Bob Hall for your fierce protection of your bill!!❤️🫶🙌, and to Senator Angela Paxton for co sponsoring it!), met with about 15 other Representatives and Senators later in the day, secured two House Bill sponsors (God bless you Reps Olcott and Shofner🙌🙏🙌❤️🙌), drove home (well, actually, I didn’t drive…. my most precious prayer warrior friend Robin volunteered to help in any way she could, and driving was just one of the many things she did to help❤️), got home about midnight, had a 7am ZOOM call with about 30 Legislators from all over the USA who are interested in creating Legislation like Senator Hall’s Bill, submitted an invited testimony on behalf of a Bill modeled after Senator Hall’s Bill in Rhode Island, had 3 Good Medicine client appts yesterday afternoon, and then went to bed.🥱.
All this to say….. I apologize if I have not returned a call or been slow to respond to emails for the last few weeks. 😬
Have a beautiful Friday!
I’m off to represent www.blessedbyhisblood.com at the National Health Federation conference this weekend. Thankfully, it’s in Dallas, so I don’t have to pack a suitcase😜…. I’m commuting (would much rather sleep in my own bed with my hubby and cats❤️! )
(Those of you who know me well know that I’m an introvert and our farm is my happy place. God is stretching and growing me in ways I would have never imagined. My Bible verses [Psalm 119] today were interesting, especially in light of His call to protect the blood on a legislative level, and to bring light to the broken blood donation industry….. it’s not actually broken…. it’s profit centered as opposed to being patient care centered. Happy to talk to anyone who wants to learn more about what I’m doing and why🙏🩸🙏. Not my will, but His. )
 

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