Posted on 05/22/2013 9:16:36 AM PDT by chessplayer
The federal blood donor agency is lifting its lifetime ban on gay men giving blood.
Canadian Blood Services announced Wednesday it has received approval from Health Canada to reduce its restriction on men who have sex with men donating blood from indefinitely to five years.
... Both the United States and some European countries have kept their lifetime bans, while the United Kingdom and Australia have reduced the restriction to a one-year deferral.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
Political Correctness kills - sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Sometimes it is immediate, and sometimes the effects play out over decades.
Great move. Lots of thought on that. But I’ll bet that the doctors, who know better, will still wear gloves when dealing with the sodomites.
All in all . . . great move by the Canadian “Free Health Care” system.
IOW, give us a little more time for political correctness to further corrode common sense, and we'll lift the band altogether.
The takeaway? Don't go to Canada, at least not without your own traveling blood supply.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
So HIV goes away now in 5 years?
Let the recipients decide whether they want or don’t want to take the blood. I think the blood units should be clearly marked.
If you plan to have surgery that would require having a transfusion, make an autologous donation ahead of time. If you anticipate needing more than one unit, get friends or family that you trust to give blood for your operation.
I have a fairly rare blood type and used to give regularly.
I want to know that, if I require a blood transfusion, the blood does NOT come from a homosexual or an IV drug user. I’m sure there are other categories that should also be denied donating blood. Does wanting to be safe from biological contaminants make me a “homophobe” (which is a politically correct term only)?
I thought the US got rid of any ban years ago. I’m pretty confident about that, but... I remember being shocked that they were allowing people with same sex partners to donate blood & this was like 4 or 5 years ago.
We have been told you can give blood for someone, but it just goes into the “pot” - doesn’t mean they get YOUR blood...
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Gays have been pushing for this so they can spread AIDS. Then they can claim more women and children to be affected and garner more “sympathy”.
They will be crying and moaning over this in the USA too. After all, normal people who don’t engage in risky behavior should be made to suffer the same risk as people who deliberately put themselves at risk.
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I am banned for the same reason, and I don't complain. While I donated quite a few gallons before the ban, it's about those who need the blood, not about me. I just wish gay men were not so self-centered that they were willing to kill innocents for the symbolic endorsement of their perversion. Note: I lost a close hemophiliac friend to HIV many years ago. I don't blame the gays who unknowingly donated then. I do blame those who donate today - they are murderers.
Why, so they can sell it to Arkansas prisons?
I find it ironic that, on one hand, libs are trying to take away our guns because they don't want anybody to get hurt, while on the other hand libs are evidently ok with putting people at higher risk for becoming HIV positive from tainted blood, putting even greater demands on constitutionally indefensible Obamacare.
Well it is at least a good thing AIDS has become a manageable disease.....
But yeah, I grew up in a rural community and one of my friend’s mother died because of a AIDS tainted transfusion she needed after giving birth to my friend’s sister.
There is a special place in hell for these disease spreaders...
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