Posted on 12/03/2013 7:12:26 PM PST by massmike
Should homosexual men – a group with the highest HIV-infection rates in the nation – be allowed to donate blood?
That’s the question the federal government is considering this week as it re-evaluates whether it should lift the 30-year ban on homosexual blood donation.
“CDC estimates that MSM represent approximated 4 percent of the male population in the United States, but male-to-male sex accounted for more than three-fourths (78 percent) of new HIV infections among men and nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of all new infections in 2010.”
The American Red Cross warns: “HIV antibodies may take a few weeks to develop after infection with the virus. If you were recently infected, you might have a negative test result, yet be able to infect the recipient of your donation. That is why you must not give blood if you are at risk of getting AIDS or other infectious diseases.”
Nonetheless, a petition a WhiteHouse.gov, created in November by students at the University of Michigan, claims the FDA policy is “discriminatory and inadequate.”
Dr. Jay Brooks, an expert in blood banking and transfusion at the University of Florida’s College of Medicine, told WND, “Yes, people need blood, but taking blood from men who’ve had sex from men since 1977 is not going to increase the blood supply substantially.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
No need. Haiti is a lot closer.
Yeah.... I see. While I would never use that description as an abbreviation, the drive by media would. They are inspired from that Lucifer admirer, Saul Alinsky, and his dirty tricks as supreme political tactic. I just saw Sarah Palin on O'Reilly (Ted Baxter) and she mentioned Saul Alinsky too with his gleeful, politics of personal destruction. Except she was talking about coprophilia enthusiast, Martin Bashir.
Thanks for the ping!
“..The whole idea of Big Brother re-evaluating this issue at this point is what’s scary. Nothing much has changed in the last thirty years with respect to scientific analysis regarding the increased risk of transmitting HIV (and other venereal diseases)..”
I know a young man who needs blood transfusions regularly to remain healthy, and this politically-correct nonsense makes me want to cry.
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