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FDA to ease ban on blood donations by gay men
Associated Press ^ | Dec 24, 2014 12:06 AM EST | Matthew Perrone

Posted on 12/23/2014 10:00:25 PM PST by Olog-hai

Federal officials have moved closer to overturning a decades-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, but activists say the proposed alternative would continue to stigmatize men who have sex with men.

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will recommend lifting the lifetime ban early next year, replacing it with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with another man in the previous 12 months. The change would overturn a 31-year-old policy that many medical groups and gay activists say is no longer justified, given advances in HIV testing.

But activists questioned whether requiring a year of celibacy from gay men amounted to a significant policy shift. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: blooddonors; fda; gaystapo; homosexualagenda
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To: Jed Eckert

Oh yes I remember. And how she was slandered in the MSM!


21 posted on 12/24/2014 7:00:05 AM PST by jtal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle ....)
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To: Olog-hai

Are there any private blood sources that are not buying street blood from the homeless?


22 posted on 12/24/2014 7:05:30 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Olog-hai

There is going to be a ONE YEAR comment period. Time for real science and real conservatives to speak up.

This is about what these 1.5% do not what they are as a status.

Homosexuals are using this blood issue to attempt to redefine science of behavior (fetish sex) as a status.


23 posted on 12/24/2014 7:08:44 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: jtal

Gays are diseased and suffering so they want you suffering


24 posted on 12/24/2014 7:09:53 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: itsahoot

Has anyone told the dinosaur media what Castro does to homosexuals infected with Hiv-aids? (they are put in defacto leper colonies)


25 posted on 12/24/2014 7:10:14 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: rockrr

There’s several factors at work here. Here’s the top two:

Any indication of stigma indicates an inferiority, so that has to be removed, because that brings in to play the whole Christian definitions of right and wrong.

Normal people “just don’t care enough” about the HIV issue because it doesn’t affect them. They have to be forced to care by infecting the general population.


26 posted on 12/24/2014 7:13:01 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Olog-hai
All blood given by perverts and junkies should be labeled with a big skull and crossbones.But we can take comfort in the knowledge that Preasident Obala,his family,friends and trust funded supporters will never get that dirty blood.

I just went to Africa.Since I've been home the blood donor center of the hospital where I regularly give blood told me I can't give until 1 year after having left Africa (mainly because of malaria).It's easy to see the wisdom in such a policy but it now looks like I'll be able to announce "yah,I've been taking it up the bum for years" and I'll have no problem. (and BTW...I haven't,despite my screen name).

Un bleeping believable!

27 posted on 12/24/2014 8:04:49 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: Olog-hai

Did the FDA try to ask Arthur Ashe, Elizabeth Glaser (and her children) and the large number of hemophiliacs who died if “science has shown us that our current policy is not justified.” Do you think that the odds of a GAY man not having GAY sex with another GAY man or men for a year is better than 1 in 10,000?


28 posted on 12/24/2014 1:21:59 PM PST by golf lover (goingf)
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To: Olog-hai

I read science projects 50% of homosexuals will be HIV+ by age 50. I don’t think AIDS is a concern anymore, because of all the HIV medications, but living with HIV is horrible. Along with all the other problems, apparently it rots their brains.
Yeah, I think homosexuals want to infect heterosexuals with HIV.


29 posted on 12/24/2014 9:40:31 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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