I want homosexual blood like I want HIV.
I say we save that blood for liberals who agree with you Senator Kerry, then I’m all for it.
He's right. Not a single piece of "evidence". But rather, several hundred thousand death certificates!
Kerry graduated from Yale with a degree in political science. Thus that makes him an expert in Hematology too.
“Not a single piece of scientific evidence supports the ban.”
Except my Dead friend and ex-boss who died in the great Hemopheliac AIDS Death of the late 80’s/early 90’s.
As many as 200,000 Hemopheliacs were killed by Aids-tainted blood.
Kirstin Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii
Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio
Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.
Bob Casey, D-Pa.
Bernie Sanders, D-Vt.
Russ Feingold, D-Wis.
Mark Udall, D-Colo.
Al Franken, D-Minn.
Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.
Carl Levin, D-Mich.
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa
Mark Begich, D-Alaska
Roland Burris, D-Ill.
and Michael Bennet, D-Colo.
I put "funny" al in bold because some of my neighbor's are responsible for him :(
He’ll be singing a different tune if and when he ever needs a blood transfusion.
Mr Kerry, how about you let the medical people who run these banks make the call on this?
I just hope I never need blood. Might as well bleed to death as to die from AIDS. My mother died at age 58 from hepatitus she got from infected blood. This was back in 1978 before they tested blood. She had heart surgery and recieved the blood durring her surgery. The hepatitus on top of her surgery killed her. One of my daughters friends who was a hemopheliac died at age 15 from AIDS he contacted from infected blood. Its a sad state of affairs when political correctness becomes more important than the lives of good decent people.
Some days I think Scott Brown replaced the wrong corpse...
What has happened to cause this to be “outdated”?
I can’t give blood because I lived in Europe during the Mad Cow scare. Is that suddenly outdated too?
Blood donation is NOT a civil rights issue. It is a public health issue.
Why is he focusing on gays?
I am not allowed to give blood forever in the USA. Why? Because I lived in Europe in the late 1980s - early 1990s. And what is the exact reason they ban my O negative forever? Because there was a mad cow scare in England during some of those years.
I was not in the UK, and the country I lived in never imported beef from the UK, and I was practically a vegetarian in those times. But none of that matters; my blood is banned from helping people here FOREVER.
Really stupid rules.
These people simply can’t think through the obvious results of their politically correct, dangerous campaign. They sure as hell didn’t ask the hemophiliac community, perhaps the biggest users of donated blood. My hemophiliac friend succumbed last week from the lifelong aftermath of receiving HIV positive blood donated by a homosexual.
Some homo please just give John Kerry aids and let’s be done with him. Kerry, a worthless human at best...
Why don’t the gay populations start their own blood banks for each other? Thant way, they could keep passing on HIV and HepC to each other without even having to have multiple sex partners.
And some think that homosexuals aren’t trying to take over and do us all in. LOL!
Let them donate, then throw it out.
When I give blood they have a “confidential” (or had? it’s been a while) that the patient puts on the form. one (barcoded) says “my blood should be fine” the other says “biohazard waste, don’t give this to any humans” and allows those with diseases (real or potential) to give blood and save face to their families.
I don’t want any of that blood in the fridge if I need some.
I wonder how Paul Michael Glaser feels about this?