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Government could ease 31-year-old ban on blood donations from gay men
The Washington Post ^ | 11/29/2014 | Brady Dennis

Posted on 11/29/2014 7:53:09 PM PST by Bettyprob

The federal government is on the brink of lifting restrictions put in place more than three decades ago when regulators, alarmed by the spread of the virus that causes AIDS, barred men who had sex with other men from donating blood.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will begin a two-day meeting on the issue Tuesday, amid growing calls from medical groups, gay rights activists and lawmakers to jettison the ban as outdated and discriminatory.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: aids; blood; bloodsupply; cdc; drugabuse; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; lavendermafia; obama; obamalegacy; publichealth; shortlifeexpectancy; stds
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1 posted on 11/29/2014 7:53:09 PM PST by Bettyprob
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To: Bettyprob

It’s for your own good. #HOMOFASCISM


2 posted on 11/29/2014 7:54:12 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Bettyprob

EASE....how could anyone consider using the word EASE in this context?

How crazy are these people??


3 posted on 11/29/2014 7:54:46 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: a fool in paradise

aids is soon to become a Mandatory Disease....


4 posted on 11/29/2014 7:55:26 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

You really need to ask that question?


5 posted on 11/29/2014 7:55:58 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Bettyprob

They WANT more straight people getting it.

Their idea is that if the football Captain and Prom Queen get it, then middle-class America will be much more likely to advocate unlimited AIDS funding.

They think if it’s “just them” getting it then no one will care.

To these twisted minds, making sure non-gays get AIDS is just another form of ACTIVISM.


6 posted on 11/29/2014 7:56:17 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Fungi

I dont now what else TO axe anymore..


7 posted on 11/29/2014 7:58:08 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Bettyprob

It’s pretty much obvious the fags want to kill us.


8 posted on 11/29/2014 7:58:16 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Bettyprob

AIDS ain’t the only thing anal intercourse practitioners carry.


9 posted on 11/29/2014 7:58:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: Bettyprob

govt - okay, hiv for everyone! and other awful permanent other std’s.

gays are just pissed b/c they can’t make money donating blood.


10 posted on 11/29/2014 7:59:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Bettyprob
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will begin a two-day meeting on the issue Tuesday, amid growing calls from medical groups, gay rights activists and lawmakers to jettison the ban as outdated and discriminatory.

What medical groups? Yeah right!

11 posted on 11/29/2014 7:59:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: Bettyprob

I think this is an extremely poor decision, if they decide to allow gay men to donate blood for the sake of political correctness. The only communities where AIDS still runs rampant is amongst gay men and IV drug users. Everyone knows this, though few are willing to actually come out and say it. I’d probably rethink my decision to give regularly.


12 posted on 11/29/2014 7:59:32 PM PST by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: gaijin

there already is unlimited aids funding.....even thought despite all their dire warnings, that disease has pretty much stayed in its original group, through in the drug users....


13 posted on 11/29/2014 8:02:10 PM PST by cherry
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To: Bettyprob

I hope the idiots who plan to do this all have to get blood transfusions at some point and get AIDS as a result. If they already have AIDS, I hope it’s something equally as nasty. There are enough medical problems to contend with, and we’re going to have to deal with more so the atypical deviants can feel like they are “normal”.


14 posted on 11/29/2014 8:04:25 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Bettyprob

Note to self: buy Stock in companies developing synthetic blood....


15 posted on 11/29/2014 8:04:37 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: gaijin

But veterans like me who were stationed in Germany in the 1980’s are banned forever from donating! I gave blood after 9-11 & this cr@p came up only later!

But faggies are insisting on their right to infect the rest of us!

Kimberly Bergalis, anyone?


16 posted on 11/29/2014 8:05:54 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: elcid1970

Doesn’t that make your cow mad!


17 posted on 11/29/2014 8:06:35 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: Bettyprob; All

As mentioned in related threads, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate healthcare.


18 posted on 11/29/2014 8:06:37 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Bettyprob

For many years liberals tried to get the US population to believe the lie that AIDS is just as widespread among heterosexuals as homosexuals but got laughed at and ridiculed.

Now they are determined to make it true.


19 posted on 11/29/2014 8:07:23 PM PST by Iron Munro (D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: Bettyprob

While we`re at it, let`s start importing blood from West Africa, geez! What`s become of common sense!


20 posted on 11/29/2014 8:07:35 PM PST by nomad
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