Why are they so set on donating blood?
From the Daily Beast article:
““We… recognize that legislation takes a long time,” California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee said. “This is an emergency. An executive order should be issued, an administrative change should take place right away.”
“The White House pushed back Tuesday on calls for the administration to do just that, telling reporters at the daily press briefing that they have no plans to make any changes.
It was, in essence, a slap in the face to a community already deep in mourning.”
remind me to never get hurt
is anybody concerned about the exposure of the first responders?
OK, remind me, who is the anti-science party?!
I grew up in a small town where a classmate lost their mothrr due to an HIV tainted blood infusion in the mid 80s.
This is a bad idea to allow a high risk group to donate.
Evil flipping freaks.... There is nothing good at can come of such idiocy.
“Live with the lie” - I believe it was Rush talking about this the other day. The democrat party is lead by the father of lies. Of this I have no doubt.
Arrogance and selfishness on parade
Same thing is happening here. There are good medical/scientific reasons to exclude homosexuals from donating blood, but the militant homosexuals are agitating to have the ban removed.
Do we get to give out Arthur Ashe awards for those later affected?
All legislators and thier families should be forced to only use blood from gay men. Lead from the front you bastards
They are going to try to do a Charleston only with gun control on this, aren’t they?!
PRE-donate your OWN blood for yourself...bank it...rather than risking a transfusion of gay AIDS blood!
10 years ago I was very anemic and received a blood transfusion. If these leftists had their way I would have gotten AIDS..perhaps these leftists who want gay blood so badly can have it transfused into their bodies and if they get AIDS oh well
Liberals are a death cult....they hate themselves & they hate life. The rest of us are just in the way.
What could possibly go wrong?
I had no idea the blood supply could be considered safe, I thought AIDS, hepatitis and the whole toxic petri dish of homosexual diseases had long ago been green-lighted into the general blood/plasma supply cuz "homophobia" and "unfairness" and stuff.
I have zero doubts the homosexuals will prevail in their efforts to taint/poison blood/plasma products because everyone should be exposed to the consequences of homosexual behavior, especially the 'privileged'.
The ban likely also isn’t just about AIDS, but other concerns like hepatitis.
And from CNN:
“Every unit of blood donated in the United States must undergo 13 tests, including 10 for infectious diseases (such as HIV, hepatitis and syphilis).
“The use of donor education material, specific deferral questions and advances in donor testing have reduced the risk of HIV transmission from a blood transfusion to about 1 in 1.5 million to 2 million blood units, according to the National Institutes of Health.
“While it is possible to detect HIV in a unit of blood nine to 11 days after infection, the NIH says that once a person is infected with HIV, it generally takes about three months for the body to produce enough antibodies to be detected by an HIV antibody test. For some people, it can take up to six months.”
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/health/orlando-shooting-gay-men-donate-blood/