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Senators: Lift ban on gays donating blood
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Posted on 03/04/2010 1:03:16 PM PST by LouAvul

The time has come to change a policy that imposes a lifetime ban on donating blood for any man who has had gay sex since 1977, 18 senators said Thursday. "Not a single piece of scientific evidence supports the ban," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who joined 16 other Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in writing Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.

The lawmakers stressed that the science has changed dramatically since the ban was established in 1983 at the advent of the HIV-AIDS crisis. Today donated blood must undergo two different, highly accurate tests that make the risk of tainted blood entering the blood supply virtually zero, they said.

The senators said that while hospitals and emergency rooms are in urgent need of blood products, "healthy blood donors are turned away every day due to an antiquated policy and our blood supply is not necessarily any safer for it."

Brian Moulton, chief legislative counsel for the Human Rights Campaign,the nation's largest gay rights group, said they are hopeful that the policy, last reviewed in 2006, will change under President Barack Obama, "who is interested in looking at all the policies that have a discriminatory effect." The goal, he said, is "to have policies in place that are based on the science" rather than "any discriminatory idea about our community."

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KEYWORDS: 111th; aids; gayvote; homosexualagenda
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More PC feel good legislation to appease the faggot extortion lobby, courtesy former prez hopeful John (I hunt deer on my belly with a double barrel smoothbore) Kerry.
1 posted on 03/04/2010 1:03:16 PM PST by LouAvul
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To: LouAvul

Let them give blood to each other.


2 posted on 03/04/2010 1:04:09 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: LouAvul

Now, feel good PCism trumpts a safe blood supply for the nation?


3 posted on 03/04/2010 1:05:14 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: LouAvul

The “everything must be fair” police strike again.


4 posted on 03/04/2010 1:05:39 PM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: LouAvul
While we're at it, let's stop discriminating against heroin addicts, and folks who just arrived from Equatorial Guinea.
5 posted on 03/04/2010 1:05:49 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: LouAvul
I can't give blood (and neither can anyone in my family) because we lived in Europe in the late '90s.

Mad cow is the ostensible reason, even though no one has ever got mad cow from a blood donation.

I suspect the Euro-livers ban was put in place to appease the gay lobby. "See, we banned donations from folks who may have been exposed to mad cow as well."

I used to be a regular donor of a fairly rare blood type. No more.

I bet even if the gays can give, I'll still be banned.

6 posted on 03/04/2010 1:08:48 PM PST by Martin Tell (ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it)
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To: LouAvul

Virtually zero is NOT ZERO. Not at all surprising that Kerry and his funny little friends want to kill somebody!


7 posted on 03/04/2010 1:09:00 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: LouAvul

LET’S LET THE GOOD SENATORS HAVE IT ALL. I WILL HAVE MY BLOOD STRAIGHT, THANK YOU.


8 posted on 03/04/2010 1:09:32 PM PST by vpintheak (How can love of God, Family and Country make me an extremist?)
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To: LouAvul

I actually agree with lurch only in that if you lift the ban we probably will be able to identify more HIV carriers who test positive and maybe lower the risk of passing this faggot curse to fewer persons


9 posted on 03/04/2010 1:10:35 PM PST by Popman
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To: LouAvul

Kerry can have the banking queen’s blood anytime.

Please do......


10 posted on 03/04/2010 1:12:15 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: LouAvul

This reminds me of the scene from Erin Brockovich where she offers the high strung attorney a glass of water that’s SUPPOSED to be perfectly safe, but the attorney won’t touch it.

As long is there is a chance, any chance in he*l, I don’t want that blood no matter how safe it’s supposed to be..


11 posted on 03/04/2010 1:12:43 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Why protest fur and not leather? Ever try to hassle a motorcycle gang?)
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To: LouAvul

If anybody still has any doubts that the elitists are trying to substantially reduce the human population, I present exhibit #1,582.


12 posted on 03/04/2010 1:14:34 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: LouAvul
A MODEL LETTER ~ JUST NOW SENT TO MARK WARNER:

"The news today is that a group of 17 US Senators say that it's OK to remove the ban on blood given by homosexuals because, supposedly, there's VIRTUALLY NO RISK.

That's what they were quoted as saying.

Hey, VIRTUALLY still isn't ZERO. I don't wanna' die from tainted blood. We're already going through this with a family member who got Heptatitis C with tainted blood.

It's not surprising to me that John Kerry wants to kill someone else anonymously, but frankly, the rest of the Senate get enough chances to kill without the old "we didn't know it was tainted" blood deal.

Enough is enough.

Tell John to stick it in his veins, not ours."

I deleted anything offensive ~ plenty of that ~ could put it back in but Warner wouldn't read it.

13 posted on 03/04/2010 1:16:06 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: LouAvul

And how will they feel about this when their children need a transfusion and gets aids cause of some homosexuals immoral behavior?


14 posted on 03/04/2010 1:20:24 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Just say NO to RINOs.)
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To: muawiyah
Virtually zero is NOT ZERO. Not at all surprising that Kerry and his funny little friends want to kill somebody!

I'm all for gays giving blood -- to a bank dedicated to U.S. Senators, active and retired.

15 posted on 03/04/2010 1:22:50 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: LouAvul

There is a period of time between infection and a positive antibody test where a donor can infect another person without testing positive. A sensible policy would, at a minimum, require that a potential male donor not have had sex with another man for the last twelve months.

You are excluded if you have had heterosexual sex with a prostitute in the previous twelve months for the same reason.

So, if everybody told the truth, the “since 1977” exclusion is probably more than you need to ensure a safe blood supply, because if anybody was infected more than a year ago, an effective screening test exists. Of course, one could make the argument that people who have had homosexual sex since 1977 are more likely to have had homosexual sex within the last twelve months, so it still makes sense to exclude them.

You don’t want people overthinking it. You don’t want them saying, “Well, I only had sex with so-and-so in the last twelve months, and I know that he’s clean, so I’m OK to donate”, because that is assuming things one cannot know for sure. The “since 1977” exclusion is just erring on the side of caution.


16 posted on 03/04/2010 1:24:06 PM PST by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave.)
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To: pnh102

I’ll stop giving blood and convert to the JW’s...


17 posted on 03/04/2010 1:26:21 PM PST by cherry
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To: LouAvul

“Senators: Lift ban on gays donating blood”

Open.

Biological.

Warfare.


18 posted on 03/04/2010 1:27:18 PM PST by Grunthor (Does The Name "Obama" Appear In any Hawaii Birth Database?)
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To: LouAvul

How many Toyota’s over how many miles and how many non operator error accidents? How much time has our congress spent on that topic?

A blood bank technician error and you are stuck with a used needle?


19 posted on 03/04/2010 1:27:30 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: LouAvul

I’m okay with this as long as their blood can only be given to other queers.


20 posted on 03/04/2010 1:27:42 PM PST by fish hawk
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