When a minister and others from the church brought up doctrinal points that they had not yet studied, such as blood, birthdays, Christmas, etc., they answered: “We have not learned about this as yet, but everything we have learned thus far has been from the Bible, so if Jehovah’s witnesses believe this, then they must have Scriptural reasons for doing so.”
... Various reasons caused her to reject the idea of studying before now, an emotion-based view on the blood issue being her strong objection.