Posted on 12/02/2014 12:47:17 PM PST by Olog-hai
Government health advisers have concerns about lifting a nationwide ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, despite growing pressure against the policy from gay rights advocates, medical experts and blood banks.
The ban dates from the first years of the AIDS epidemic and was intended to protect the U.S. blood supply from exposure to the little-understood disease. …
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Remember Arthur Ashe. May he rest in peace.
I’d say this was playing Russian Roulette with the nation’s blood supply, but already know for certain that people lie on their forms. This is another ‘feel good’ rule which will do nothing, other than remove one of the few reminders we have that homosexual behavior is a serious risk to the health.
Sure. Make healthcare more expensive again.
The queers must be in charge now. Kind’a like when the APA dropped homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses. I remember hearing one interviewed in the 80s saying that hey had to get it started in the hetero community so federal money would be spent fighting it.
Or in the US military in Europe during the mad cow outbreak....
Yes, that too.
I have no problem if these FDA advisors lift the ban, as long as their own children receive a transfusion. If they aren’t willing to put the lives of their own children on the line, then why would they jeopardize the American public?
That's right. I was working in the UK at the time and 15 years later I am still banned. Used to be a regular donor.
At least you didn’t get Mad Cow.
ffs
glad to see we care about ‘discrimination’ more then patient health and well being.
i detest liberals. they ruin everything they touch
That’s true. I did get a notification from the National Health Service that my infant son might have been infected with mad cow from a tainted polio vaccine. Thanks be to God he did not get it, but that’s one reason I hate socialized medicine so much.
That must have been a very distressing situation. I’m glad your son dodged the bullet!
That's the plan.
Oh yeah, I am SURE medical experts are clamoring for more blood from the homosexual population. If we ONLY had their blood, all shortages would be eliminated!
I was stationed in Germany 1981-83 & have not donated since 2002 when the Mad Cow ban went into effect.
Looked up Jakob-Creuzfeldt disease; chances of exposure or contracting it are infinitesimal compared to HIV, yet whole classes of people are banned in many countries because of where they traveled 1980-96.
This is pro-gay PC madness run amok.
I might have enough iron to donate at this point, but I had a schedule conflict (Cub Scouts campout, I think) last time our church had a blood drive.
it’ll make a 2-3% difference in the amt of blood donated....and for that miserable amt they’re willing to destroy our blood supply?
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