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[beachn4fun]

Word to the homosexual community - if you want to donate blood start your own homosexual blood bank. Then let's see how many of your community will be willing to use that donation.

[Sloth]

This is how the public's right to donate blood is maintained

I can't figure out what "the right to donate blood" even means.

[moonman]

Homosexuals are the most honest and forthright individuals when it come to answering questions about their personal sex and drug use activity. There has to be another reason why AIDS is spreading so fast. -sic-

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[wagglebee]

Even for the militant homosexuals, this is absurd.

[doc30]

I thik the gay lobby must want to donate blood with the hopes of infecting straight people with AIDS in order to have an increase in ADIS in the straight community so it won't look like AIDS and homosexual behavior are correlated. "Look, straight people get AIDS, too" will be their cry.

[redgolum]

I have been waiting for the lawsuits claiming "discrimination" at the blood bank for a while now.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Is this from Israel?

Anyway, the shame of it all.....


...homos are being PROFILED!

[Doc Savage]

Doesn't make any difference since Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (sic) isn't caused by a harmless passenger retrovirus, but rather by long-term insult to the homosexual's immune T and B cells by continuous exposure to poppers, elicit illegal drugs, massive viral, fungal and bacterial infections, and massive treatment and prohylactic use anti- bacterials, fungals, and virals. What a scam!

[archy]

Director of MDA's blood services rejects criticism, says decision not to use blood taken from homosexuals does not stem from homophobic reasons but rather from concern for patients

Somebody really needs to learn the difference between homophobia and homomisophia.

[Mr. K]

Ok donate all you want.... if we choose to pour it down the drain afterwards so that we don't accidentally kill someone by giving them AIDS is THAT homophobic?

[SES1066]

Speaking as a 80+ GALLON (640+ Units) Blood Donor, I have been donating since the late '60s and have personally seen the changes as the years have gone on. Technology has moved from the straight needle puncture and collected into a glass bottle, to today's pheresis donation with almost completely one-time use of sterile materials.

Similarly, the questions asked prior to donation has grow almost beyond recognition. I think that I was only asked if I had my parent's permission and if I was in good health at my earliest donations in the '60s. Now the questions asked would (MAYBE) bring a fainting spell to a staunch Victorian. The efforts to keep a healthy blood supply for those who NEED THE BLOOD is an ABSOLUTE PRIORITY! The people who need blood to live generally are not in a position to make any kind of rational choice about risks so it is the DONOR who has to be evaluated.

As far as discrimination is concerned, it is not just the male gays who are restricted. Any person who has resided for longer than several months in Great Britain over the past 20 years or longer than 6 months in Europe as a whole for that time frame is also excluded. This generally means a large percentage of the US Army & Air Force personnel. Persons who have lived in Malaria-prone countries are equally excluded.

So for those who feel it is a "right" to donate, I echo the previous suggestion that they establish their own blood bank and see how well it does.

[AmishDude]

They say "homosexuals". I can't believe this also applies to lesbians.

[xzins]

It is important to note that all the blood donations undergo stringent tests at the blood bank to find possible viruses, however it is not always possible to identify them due to the "window period:" This is the timeframe that transpires from the moment a person is infected with the virus and until the tests (however sophisticated) are able to identify the contraction of the disease. The "window period" can last from weeks to months (according to the virus), and those exposed to it are likely to transmit it and harm patients receiving the donations, despite their blood tests showing up as "normal."

Serious issues that support the ban on homosexuals in the military.

1. As the article says, there is no nation in the world that accepts blood donations from homosexuals.

2. The "walking blood supply" is one of the most significant sources of blood for those wounded on the battlefield....in other words, your buddies from your unit and others.

3. "The window" period above says that there's an infectious period with HIV that is not detectable by the tests given to determine if someone has contracted the virus.

4. Research by the Center for Disease Control says that early HIV is EXTREMELY infectious to others in that it can be easily passed due to large amounts of the virus.

5. The infamous promiscuity of homosexuals means that they can find sex partners anyplace in the world....would you want blood from your homosexual soldier if you'd both been deployed to a sub-Sahara region for more than a few weeks? Some places are worse than others regarding infection, but the threat of a screened homosexual soldier contracting the virus AFTER deployment is real and is possible in all places in the world.

[Teacher317]

There's a "right to donate blood"? That's a protected property interest?