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I Abstained From Sex for a Year to Donate Blood (NYT alert)
New York Times ^ | January 12, 2017 | JAY FRANZONE

Posted on 01/12/2017 6:56:00 AM PST by reaganaut1

IT shouldn’t be a big deal that I gave blood this week, but it is. To do it, I had to give up all forms of sex for a year. The reason: I’m gay.

With what we know today about the disease, it’s a stupid reason.

In 1985, in the early days of the AIDS crisis, the United States Food and Drug Administration recommended that men who had sex with other men be prohibited from donating blood indefinitely. This policy made sense at the time. In the decades since, the nation has made enormous progress against the virus. What was once a death sentence is now a treatable, chronic condition. And we can now detect what had been an elusive virus within seven to 28 days of infection, using nucleic acid testing.

In 2015, the agency modified the lifetime ban and allowed men who had sex with men to donate blood if they had abstained from sex for one year. This revision followed several years of study after an advisory committee found the lifetime ban “suboptimal.”

But this one-year blanket policy, which depends on the honesty of the would-be donor, still falls short by failing to consider a potential donor’s individual risk factors, an approach some other countries follow with success. As a result, this prohibition, which the American Public Health Association said “is not based in science but appears to be modeled after other countries’ choices and fears,” effectively forbids as many as two million potential donors to give blood, according to an analysis published in 2014 by the Williams Institute at the U.C.L.A. School of Law.

This past summer, the F.D.A. began the process of reconsidering its one-year policy.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: aids; blood; gayblood; hiv; homosexualagenda; taintedblood
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To: Darksheare
I doubt he abstained.

That was my first thought also. Their sexuality makes them quite corrupt in many ways and sex is the very first thing they are willing to lie about.

21 posted on 01/12/2017 7:10:43 AM PST by PGR88
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To: reaganaut1

Alternatively, he could have sought help for his sexual molestation as a child.


22 posted on 01/12/2017 7:10:57 AM PST by G Larry (Pretending Podesta's e-mail are "The American Election System" is nonsense.)
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To: reaganaut1
What was once a death sentence is now a treatable, chronic condition.

Well, that's great if you have it already. But no one in their right mind wants to get it. Think about it -- your medical condition requires a transfusion, and on top of that, you wind up getting AIDS from tainted blood which was donated by someone who shares needles or has unhygienic sexual habits.

Have your sex and keep your blood.

23 posted on 01/12/2017 7:11:11 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: reaganaut1

Why not stop being gay, permanently? Repent and God will forgive you. He doesn’t need your tainted blood. He wants your repentance. He wants you to stop forever, the abomination of gay sex.

God didn’t make you gay, sin did.


24 posted on 01/12/2017 7:11:22 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: reaganaut1

Fake News


25 posted on 01/12/2017 7:11:30 AM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: reaganaut1

There should be a LIFETIME ban against males who have sex with males from giving blood!

It’s the only SANE public health policy!!!!

If “gays” want to “feel good about themselves”, they might try repentance!! Really!!!!


26 posted on 01/12/2017 7:11:43 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: reaganaut1

Did bammy ever allow them to donate blood and to potentially contaminate the general blood supply? I don’t recall if he ever allowed it.

Wanna bet there’s a special supply of blood for the ruling elite? Wanna bet they don’t subject themselves to the same dangers they subject us to?

Trump is on the way.


27 posted on 01/12/2017 7:11:56 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Ouderkirk

Absolutely. I don’t want any blood ever from anyone with a history of romancing the exhaust pipe.


28 posted on 01/12/2017 7:12:15 AM PST by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
STDs among gays is still many times higher than the heterosexual population.

Then there is always the 'gay bowel syndrome'.

29 posted on 01/12/2017 7:12:19 AM PST by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: sauropod

He sooo wants to wear the “I Gave Blood Today” sticker, so he appears just as normal as the rest of us.


30 posted on 01/12/2017 7:13:43 AM PST by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: reaganaut1

I also abstained from sex all year, but it was not my choice.


31 posted on 01/12/2017 7:13:49 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Didn’t Clinton sell most of that tainted blood to Canada?
A real globalist even then


32 posted on 01/12/2017 7:19:32 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: reaganaut1

They are finding a massive growth of antibiotic resistant infections among homosexuals, most recently Shigella.
That alone is reason to say nope, not gonna risk giving antibiotic resistant infections of all types to people in a vulnerable state.


33 posted on 01/12/2017 7:21:24 AM PST by tbw2
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To: reaganaut1

MAYBE MINIMIZING RISK *OF DEATH* IS NOT AS IMPORTANT TO HIM AS GAY PEOPLE’S ‘FEELINGS’


34 posted on 01/12/2017 7:22:35 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: reaganaut1

I’ve donated blood a number of times and I don’t ever remember anyone asking me if I had sex with men as part of the preparation.


35 posted on 01/12/2017 7:27:18 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Ouderkirk
Else label and idenify the blood and let them face civil and criminal penalties for the transmission of AIDS via their donation

OK ... let's say I'm severely injured in some sort of industrial accident, and I get a transfusion in ER. And it came from this freak. And I get some horrid, incurable disease. And I sue him. And win a judgment against him for 100 Trillion Dollars. And he's prosecuted. And convicted. And goes to prison for the rest of his life.

Guess what?

I still have the horrid, incurable disease.

36 posted on 01/12/2017 7:28:13 AM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: reaganaut1

Help me out here: WHY is donating blood to be considered “a right”?????


37 posted on 01/12/2017 7:30:25 AM PST by Charlemagne on the Fox
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To: reaganaut1

That’s ok Jay, you claimed to have waited for a year to donate blood.

they threw it in the trash anyway.


38 posted on 01/12/2017 7:31:20 AM PST by Celerity
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To: Darksheare

If your Gay please don’t donate blood to a blood bank.


39 posted on 01/12/2017 7:33:09 AM PST by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA. (Owner of Stars and Bars Flags))
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To: reaganaut1

And as usual, the homo is on his honor to tell the truth. When will the insanity end!? Oh wait, 8 days!!! WOOHOO!


40 posted on 01/12/2017 7:35:11 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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