Posted on 12/21/2015 12:02:09 PM PST by xzins
The Food and Drug Administration has lifted the ban on blood donations from men who have engaged in sexual relations with another man. Now, in order to donate blood, a man will have had to have been abstinent for the period of one year prior to donation.
This new policy is similar to the deferral period for a woman who has engaged in sexual activity with a man who had previously sexual activity with another man, or for someone who has traveled to a country where malaria is prevalent.
The Food and Drug Administration released final rules on Monday that would allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood if they have been celibate for one year. Under previous rules, men who have had sex with men are banned from donating indefinitely.
“Ultimately, the 12-month deferral window is supported by the best available scientific evidence, at this point in time, relevant to the U.S. population. We will continue to actively conduct research in this area and further revise our policies as new data emerge," Dr. Peter Marks, deputy director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, wrote in a statement Monday.
The move partially rolls back a 1983 ban that has since been described as medically unwarranted. Efforts to eliminate that ban, which have crawled forward under the Obama administration, mark the biggest step in a decades-old debate on whether gay and bisexual men, who are at a higher risk for HIV/AIDS, can safely donate blood.
And they let you donate!? I’ve been banned since 2002 because I was stationed in Germany 1981-83, and I have been turned down every time since that I have volunteered to donate.
Now faggies can donate & contaminate. Geez!!
The abomination that causes desolation.
Who the f*ck will be stupid enough to believe that sodomites will abstain from sex for a year?
This is a direct overt attack on healthy normal people.
What the hell is going on? This thread is over 20 posts long and Trump hasn’t been mentioned once. Trumpsters are falling down on the job.
Yep.....horrific. You know none of them will use that blood supply.
Yes and I also see a growth in facilities that will store your blood long term in case of emergencies.
Apparently, I was just outside the parameters. But it took forever.
Yep.....no way the don’t have sex for a year. A direct attack on us.
No way I trust them to be honest about when they last had sex.
There is no “sex within the last year” blood test.
It must be self reporting.
Yes, and for those not familiar with the app Grinder, they need to see exactly what it is and how many users access it daily.
I have psoriasis, flaky skin rash. They will not let me donate.
is this a rump humper feel good policy?
This has been a political issue with homosexuals for years. Every argument would inevitably bring up violation of nature, and that would lead to the serious health detriments of HIV, and they CDC would be cited as proof that there is something biologically amiss inside the bodies of a huge percentage of homosexuals that the CDC would ban all of them from blood donations.
So, to get rid of that argument, the power brokers knew they had to allow homosexuals to give blood.
No matter the consequences, it had to be so for their narrative to be upheld.
And since many sodomites already have permanent diseases that disqualify them, like they also disqualify normal people from giving blood, it’s not like this will even legally permit most to give blood anyway.
Fuching ridiculous.
Who is stupid enough to think they won’t lie about it?
But check the wrong answer on your 4473...
I’m so sorry. That’s a terrible thing to have happen.
It is impossible.
It is pure trust of a self report.
A lie detector test???
No matter the consequences, it had to be so for their narrative to be upheld.
PC IS THE ANTICHRIST.
introduced by the Devils own servants, Progressives, MSM and Obama.
follow the money, now those private jails can sell prisoner blood.
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