Posted on 03/08/2008 1:19:14 PM PST by Roberts
Truly the left wing is a suicide cult.
They turned me down for donating last time because my iron count was too low! Can I sue, too? I sure could use some cash!
You forgot to add that we should be grateful for that. Let’s have a parade.
good points you make. There are other criteria for blood donations and some will discriminate. There are restrictions about people who have traveled or lived in sub-Saharan Africa I think, or who have been in England during the mad cow outbreak, and a few other health concerns that the blood banks ask about.
Sometimes discriminiation makes sense. In a case of the blood supply, we’re supposed to increase risk to prove we don’t discriminate? But it’s a documented fact that homosexual sex in men spreads various diseases and is risky.
Don’t we all remember in the early to mid 80s there were many people who got AIDS from blood transfusions, specifically because there was no effective screening till then and AIDS was a newly discovered disease then. Why is it wrong to make common sense policies when the goal is public health?
Why is it wrong to make common sense policies when the goal is public health?
Common sense?
A person contracts syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis and they go into the system. Their contacts are traced and tested.
A person contracts HIV and ... nothing. It would be discrimination. We mustn’t let it be known that a carrier is an IV drug user or homosexual. The public be damned.
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