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FDA weighs lifting ban on blood donations from gay men
The Hill ^ | November 28, 2014 | Sarah Ferris

Posted on 11/28/2014 12:59:23 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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1 posted on 11/28/2014 12:59:23 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So in other words the President could give blood


2 posted on 11/28/2014 1:01:11 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
instead allowing men to donate only if they have not had sex with another man for one year.
And we trust them at their word? Hey, what could go wrong?
3 posted on 11/28/2014 1:01:19 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Is there any mountain that PC can't climb?

Nope.

4 posted on 11/28/2014 1:02:33 PM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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They have wanted to give HIV or AIDS and whatever else to straight people forever, Obama might just let them


5 posted on 11/28/2014 1:02:40 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Why don’t they set up a homosexual blood bank, for homosexual donors and homosexual recipients only?

Set it up in The Castro and other corresponding homosexual communities. Then distribute the blood to homosexuals who are in need of blood donations. Problem solved.

Or do we have to get into the whole business of how homosexuals feeling are hurt, self-esteem disturbed and all that, by the blood ban being in place?


6 posted on 11/28/2014 1:02:52 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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7 posted on 11/28/2014 1:02:57 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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Odd, and queer, and quite peculiar.

Someone thinks HIV should be more widespread.


8 posted on 11/28/2014 1:02:57 PM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: oh8eleven

How do you stop being a fag for a year?


9 posted on 11/28/2014 1:02:58 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Translation: Store up your own blood if you know a surgery or procedure is coming and try to get relatives and friends to donate in an emergency.


10 posted on 11/28/2014 1:04:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: oh8eleven

We’re trusting them now to say they have never had such sex. There is too little stated here to analyze the question.


11 posted on 11/28/2014 1:04:54 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

As I have posted multiple times in threads on this subject, including two weeks ago, these sorry bass-turds are directly responsible for the deaths of innocent people in the 80s. One of these innocents was a childhood friend with hemophilia who had to use clotting factors derived from donated blood. He was robbed of life by these perverse butt-humpers. I have nothing but disgust for them. They deserve nothing and we deserve to have a clean blood supply.

I’m permanently banned from donation due to serving in the US military in West Germany with potential exposure to CJV. The poofter crowd deserves nothing less.


12 posted on 11/28/2014 1:05:20 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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Critics of the ban, which was enacted during the national AIDS epidemic in 1983 and was last updated in 1992, say it ignores mounds of scientific evidence concluding that blood donations pose no risk than the greater public if properly screened.
Arthur Ashe was unavailable for comment.
13 posted on 11/28/2014 1:07:50 PM PST by Bratch
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14 posted on 11/28/2014 1:08:33 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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lifting ban on blood donations from gay men...

This is patently unfair to former Ebola patients, both men and woman.

15 posted on 11/28/2014 1:13:07 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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This is utterly insane. I’ve posted here before, but in a nutshell: Gay and Bi men under the age of 25 account for almost 70% of new HIV infections and a similar amount of new syphilis infections.

Testing of donated blood is reliable, but it is not foolproof. It is sheer madness to allow a high-risk group like that into the blood supply. The proposed “no sex for a year” protocols are stupid. Are we seriously supposed to believe someone is going to stop having sex for a year to donate a pint of blood?

Stupid, stupid, stupid idea in the works here.


16 posted on 11/28/2014 1:14:34 PM PST by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The reason there was a ban placed in the first place was because AIDS-infected blood nearly destroyed the entire hemophiliac community.


17 posted on 11/28/2014 1:15:48 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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Or do we have to get into the whole business of how homosexuals feeling are hurt, self-esteem disturbed and all that, by the blood ban being in place?

Dilbert, I am just shocked, shocked I tell you, by your insensitivity. What are a few (hundred?) thousand cases of HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis C, etc. when compared with the very real danger of a loss of self-esteem amongst the LBGT community, intravenous drug users, and prostitutes?

Next thing you know, imperialistic, gender-normative white men such as yourself would prevent illegal aliens who have (or have had) Dengue Fever or Malaria from selling their precious bodily fluids! For shame!

18 posted on 11/28/2014 1:16:23 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (Resign, Barry. On your way out, tell your homies to pull up their pants)
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I guess I need to start wearing a Medi-Bracelet that reads: ‘Let me bleed out.’


19 posted on 11/28/2014 1:16:32 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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I think I may have mentioned this before, but a guy on my dorm floor in college was infected with HIV the same way. He was a hemophiliac and received tainted blood when he was in high school. I don’t know where he is today (or if he is alive), but it weighed on him very heavily back then. Poor guy.


20 posted on 11/28/2014 1:19:04 PM PST by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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