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Students Protest Blood Drive Screening
Associated Press ^
| March 17, 2004
Posted on 03/17/2004 9:45:58 AM PST by Sweet_Sunflower29
Two student legislators at Western Oregon University have launched a drive to ban Red Cross blood drives on campus, claiming the donor screening process discriminates against gays.
The two students are particularly upset about a donor question that reads: "Are you a male who has had sex with another male since 1977, even once?"
The federal Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the Red Cross screening process, will not accept a donation from someone who answers 'yes' to the question, in order to help eliminate potentially HIV-tainted blood.
"By continuing to allow the Red Cross on our campus, the university is telling all the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students that we don't care about you," said student senator Shauna Bates, who is co-sponsoring the legislation.
If the resolution passes with a two-thirds majority vote of the senate's 14 members, no student-funded organization would be allowed to sponsor a blood drive. Current blood drives on campus, though, get their funding from the university's health services department.
A meeting on the topic Monday drew students and various health officials from the university and Red Cross opposing the move.
Student Molly Underwood said that matters of public health supersede those of discrimination.
"Just because somebody thinks something is unfair doesn't mean you should ban it," Underwood said. "Lives could be at stake."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: aids; blooddonation; cultofrights; cultureofdeath; culturewar; gaysattackredcross; grids; hiv; homosexual; homosexualagenda; insane; militantgays; prisoners; redcross; romans1; selfish; sin; vice; wagesofsin
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To: boomop1
"Perverts want their cake and eat it too,"
let's not go there......
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posted on
03/17/2004 12:42:18 PM PST
by
cherry
To: cherry
That belongs in the "Too much information" category.
42
posted on
03/17/2004 12:57:47 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
(""....but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America"")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I think they did away with the "do not use" sticker. The last few times I have donated there was no sticker.
Gays aren't discriminated against in donating. They can be as gay as they want as long as they haven't had sex with another male since 1977.
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posted on
03/17/2004 1:04:00 PM PST
by
muggs
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Awwww. Poor babies. I can't donate anymore, either. Too much time in Europe. Shall I scream discrimination and shove a pint of my blood down your throat, so to speak? Would you want it?
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posted on
03/17/2004 1:07:41 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Well its just Oregon, lot of fresh virgin timber that needs trimming- once we get rid of the hippies. They eat their own in those hippy towns in the North (not all are hippies I know)
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posted on
03/17/2004 1:09:33 PM PST
by
Porterville
(Did I spell something wrong? Does that make you mad? Poor baby.)
To: muggs
I think they did away with the "do not use" sticker. The last few times I have donated there was no sticker. I gave two weeks ago. They were using it then.
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posted on
03/17/2004 1:55:28 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Red Cross doesn't collect blood in the Cincinnati area. I donate through an organization called Hoxworth and they did away with the sticker several donations ago.
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posted on
03/17/2004 2:23:22 PM PST
by
muggs
Comment #48 Removed by Moderator
To: Teacher317
The reason they do it this way is so that when offices etc. holds blood drives no one has to know that you are (for whatever reason) ineligible to give blood. Many companies put a lot of pressure on their employees and this gives those that really shouldn't be giving blood an "out" so that they can appear to give blood but don't really.
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posted on
03/17/2004 6:36:18 PM PST
by
Igraine
To: Porterville
If it makes you feel any better, Western Oregon State isn't exactly home Oregon's brightest academic lights.
50
posted on
03/17/2004 6:39:34 PM PST
by
Igraine
To: *Homosexual Agenda; EdReform; scripter; GrandMoM; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; ...
Homosexual Agenda Ping + The "Gaystapo" wants to murder people. I take back what I just said in my last comment (on another thread) that the Gaystapo don't murder people. I guess they want to start doing just that.
This really p***es me off. The fool who says that "discriminating" against "gays" means that the university doesn't care about them. Well, I guess the University, the Red Cross, and the gov't want them to not get AIDS from transfusions. In the homo-fascists' world view, white is black, black is white, and wanting someone not to get AIDS is not "caring" about them.
Freaking demons. I'm sorry for my harsh language, but this is it. They actually WANT innocent people who need blood transfusions to get AIDS.
What do you pinglist people think?
let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
I'm seriously upset with this one.
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posted on
03/17/2004 6:42:41 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(...men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.)
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Unbelievable...these people are evil. They should be banned from the campus.
To: GraceCoolidge
As I recall, there were questions about sex, overseas travel, body piercings, hepatitis, tattoos, a whole range of stuff. Yep, all kinds of questions there. I couldn't give blood for many years because I kept going to areas where we had to take malaria prophylactics. I didn't feel discriminated against.
Blood Donation Eligibility Guidelines
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
The health hazards of the homosexual lifestyle over the years.
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posted on
03/17/2004 9:14:54 PM PST
by
scripter
(Thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle)
To: gracie1
"you also can't give blood if you take Propecia"
I have to ask. Why not?
To: SendShaqtoIraq
Isn't Propecia the one that had the ads warning that pregnant women or women who could become pregnant shouldn't even touch a broken pill because it could cause birth defects?
56
posted on
03/18/2004 1:06:21 AM PST
by
maryz
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
(completely unprintable reaction)
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posted on
03/18/2004 7:02:56 AM PST
by
King Prout
(You may disagree with what I have to say... but I will defend to YOUR death MY right to say it.)
To: little jeremiah
What do you pinglist people think? And so I pray:
God, Please save and change them, or kill them before they drag others into hell with them
Some of the SADs are merely mislead. Others are purely evil. The trouble is in how to tell the difference.
In more civilized times our society quarentined people with deadly contagious diseases. We should do so again. (SAD is a deadly contagious disease)
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posted on
03/18/2004 8:06:30 AM PST
by
John O
(God Save America (Please))
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
I don't understand why the Red Cross bothers with their silly question and answer screening process. I have read where the homonazis are told to lie and donate. Skip wasting my time with silly questions, take it from anyone who wants to give it, and test it all.
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posted on
03/18/2004 8:12:22 AM PST
by
Mr. K
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
They should collect two separate types of blood: screened and unscreened.
When these guys need blood, they can then be given the "unscreened" blood and the rest of us can choose the "screened" blood.
It would make a great Democrat Primary Debate question: "Senator, will you commit right now to be given non-discriminatory unscreened blood if you ever need a blood transfusion?"
"Well, ..ummm,...er,....cough,...sputter,...mumble, mumble...ahhh,....." :-)
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posted on
03/18/2004 8:22:16 AM PST
by
Polybius
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