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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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1 posted on 12/23/2014 10:00:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Hep A, B, C, Syphilis, HPV, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia....


2 posted on 12/23/2014 10:04:18 PM PST by Dallas59
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To: Olog-hai

They really are committed to destroying the healthcare system in America, aren’t they?


3 posted on 12/23/2014 10:06:58 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s very clear that the sodomites and their allies in the executive branch wish to extend the spread of AIDS into hetero culture.


4 posted on 12/23/2014 10:10:07 PM PST by jtal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle ....)
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To: Olog-hai

FYI some blood banks and hospitals will let you donate your blood with your name on the bottle so if you need it back then you get your own and not some Aids-infected druggie’s blood
(it works better anyway ... no risk of mis-matches or other problems, this is actually a recommended procedure and not just an aids-reaction)

ask your local blood bank and hospital or perhaps your MD will know


5 posted on 12/23/2014 10:14:03 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: Olog-hai

My dog is a blood donor and probably has to go through more screening than the fags will. We are so screwed.


6 posted on 12/23/2014 10:16:38 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Olog-hai

The mind-numbing experiments in social justice and politically correct magical thinking continue. If we all just BELIEVE gays should be able to donate tainted blood to the rest of us, wonderful miracles will happen! If we all just BELIEVE muzzies are really good people...if we just BELIEVE in Hope and Change...if we just BELIEVE. Simple groupthink will heal all things. Bow down. Brain out the window. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. The Oborgs have spoken. The muzzie cube rules all.


7 posted on 12/23/2014 10:17:37 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: rockrr

Well, since Obamacare cuts costs by restricting services, this should reduce the demand on blood products. Restrict what you can, and contaminate what you can’t restrict. The rest takes care of itself.


8 posted on 12/23/2014 10:22:47 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve just ended my blood donating as of now.


9 posted on 12/23/2014 10:23:52 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Olog-hai

“But activists questioned whether requiring a year of celibacy from gay men...”

That’s funny. A government that supports hedonism wants celibacy. And that same lying government wants people not to lie about their supposed celibacy. This is stupid on all levels.


11 posted on 12/23/2014 11:11:21 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Olog-hai

And yet I, a former routine O-neg donor, am permanently banned because I served on active duty in the Republic of Turkey.

Just in case I might have mad cow disease....


12 posted on 12/23/2014 11:19:20 PM PST by ziravan (Choose Sides.)
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To: Olog-hai

Let’s not forget the AIDS tainted blood from the Arkansas Prison System under the governorship of Bill Clinton. Lots of innocent people died from that.


13 posted on 12/23/2014 11:20:24 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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But activists questioned whether requiring a year of celibacy from gay men amounted to a significant policy shift. …

Celibate for a year?

14 posted on 12/23/2014 11:52:54 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: rockrr

And everything else. This country is at war on two fronts: Radical Islam and liberalism. It’s going to be curious to see how far people are going to let this go before they take up arms and we enter into another Civil war. I think once people start losing their homes and their internet then they’ll start. It will be an extremely short war though, probably no more than a few hours because there is not a cop or military vet alive who supports these leftist sh*tbags.


15 posted on 12/24/2014 12:00:43 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: F15Eagle

“So, former members of Man’s Country will be able to donate?”

This change would allow Obama to donate blood now. Currently anyone who has engaged in sex with another man is banned from donating blood. So that would certainly include Obama, right?


16 posted on 12/24/2014 12:17:45 AM PST by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It’s been going on since the sixties! Liberals have been a direct problem for at least 50 years.

No one will do anything to stop it because no one wants to put their livelihood at risk.


17 posted on 12/24/2014 12:18:14 AM PST by ReganDude (Give me liberty or give me death!!)
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To: ziravan

There must be a way for you to add Mad Cow to that motion ;)


18 posted on 12/24/2014 1:40:20 AM PST by Carthego delenda est
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To: jtal
It’s very clear that the sodomites and their allies in the executive branch wish to extend the spread of AIDS into hetero culture.

Yes they do. The case of the late Kimberly Bergalis, who contracted it from David J. Acer, her sodomite dentist who had AIDS is just one example.

Unfortunately the real story was whitewashed and swept under the rug. By the time they tracked the source and method of the infection the dentist was dead and the real story was forgotten.(For the record: he infected her on purpose. Figured if heteros started getting it more research would be done to find a cure)

19 posted on 12/24/2014 3:30:43 AM PST by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Statistically, my blood is safer than theirs, yet I can’t donate. I was stationed in Europe until Jul of 1980. because of mad cow disease, anyone not back in the States by 31 June 1980 cannot donate blood. I missed the cutoff by 2 weeks, over 34 years ago, yet my blood is unsafe....


20 posted on 12/24/2014 4:26:54 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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