Medics: Gays should be allowed to give blood

TheLocal.de ^ | 24 Jun 13 12:46 CET | (The Local/jcw)

[Olog-hai]

German doctors are calling for gay men to be allowed to donate blood. Currently a Europe-wide ban prevents them from doing so, but the German Health Minister said he would welcome a relaxation of the rules.

The German Medical Association (BÄK) said that it would do everything “within its means” to remove the blanket ban on men who have sex with men, those with lots of sexual partners and prostitutes, from donating blood. …

[ConservativeMan55]

Gross

[Viennacon]

Pray you never need blood. Prostitutes too? Good going, Germany. Not.

[RightGeek]

What could go wrong? /sarc

[manc]

sick, not only do they like to have sex with fecal matter and then get much more diseases but they now are to give blood.

Yea nothing wrong there , just like them infiltrating kids groups and we’re now seeing kids being molested by these people

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Fogedaboudit!

[shadeaud]

How would you ever know where the blood originated from as you were receiving the blood or plasma.

[Gay State Conservative]

When I had my hip replaced a few years ago (at a major,well known hospital) the surgeon strongly encouraged me donate my own blood beforehand that would be stored and be given back to me if blood loss during surgery necessitated it (which,I was told,turned out to be the case).He didn't need to tell me *why* he was recommending it.I was at the hospital's blood bank at the precise times set...with bells on (IIRC I had to go several times).

[Spirochete]

to remove the blanket ban on men who have sex with men, those with lots of sexual partners and prostitutes, from donating blood.

I thought this was semi-satire news. We're living in bizzaro world.

[Gay State Conservative]

A nurse with whom I worked for 20 years in a large hospital's ER contracted HIV *and* Hep C from a needle stick...a few years after I had left the department.Anyone familiar with the workings of ERs,ORs,ICUs and other fast paced hospital departments knows that needle sticks are an all-too-common occurrence and are a huge risk to health care folks...and have been even since before the appearance of AIDS.

[ScottinVA]

How about active intravenous drug users? Hepatitis patients? Hell.. just allow everybody!

[Gay State Conservative]

Currently a Europe-wide ban prevents them from doing so...

I donated blood recently for the first time in quite a while (lazy I guess).There were many questions..."are you in good health?"..."have you ever had hepatitis?"..."have you ever had sex with a man?"...."did you ever travel to Europe between the years XXXX and YYYY?" (can't recall what years were stated).I passed...and at the end I asked "why the question about Europe?" "Mad Cow Disease" was the answer.

So it looks like Europe isn't even afraid of Mad Pervert Disease today.

[Tax-chick]

Are the members of the German Medical Association so insulated from the actual practice of medicine that they know they, themselves, would not be exposed to diseased-infected blood ... or are they so ideology-addled that they think the principle of “supporting” sodomites is worth dying for?

[Da Coyote]

Hmmm, let’s review my present understanding....

I spent a few years in the UK doing grad studies...during the great mad liberal...er...mad Pelosi...er...mad cow times.

Consequently, I cannot donate blood.

A gay person can butt boink, pack fudge, press baby ruths, attack muffins, and perhaps play brokeback mountain with a boy scout and he can give blood?

Sooner or later, we’re going to have to “just say no” and back that up with a bit of heat.

[convocation]

Donate contaminated blood. Help save lives! ? (I miss common sense in my news and world.)

[SgtHooper]

The soluton can be quite simple—if the gay passes HIV in the blood, he will be executed as if it were a murder. This could apply for all donors who pass this disease. Too bad.

[Vaduz]

Insane

[Doc Savage]

Just stop for a moment and try to think. No virus, no retrovirus, has the ability to detect gender-only hosts. If that doesn’t put you on the right track to the AIDs scam, then there isn’t much hope for you. As far as blood from homosexuals, no thanks. Hepatitis B is rampant among homosexuals who are IV drug users. And that’s just for starters. No thanks.

[the OlLine Rebel]

My view is ask the relatives. Someone close, literally and figuratively, probably has the right blood and it will be fresh. I’d rather have that than risk maggot sex-fiend blood.

[NRA1995]

They can give it to each other all they want; don’t give it to me.