Kerry doesn’t care how many hemopheliacs die.
Why would anyone presume to demand equal opportunity in acceptance of blood donations? If people don’t want their blood, what business is it of theirs?
SnakeDoc
Bizarre that there’s even a contest between the lives of hemophiliacs and the feelings of the gay community. Let’s weigh this... survival vs feelings... hm... gosh, that’s a tough one.
Homosexuality is a very unhealthy, dirty lifestyle. AIDS isn’t the only blood born pathogen to fear.
This is total BS—except that its deadly serious. This will seriously piss people off if they start losing loved ones to AIDS due to these PC policies. We need this like a hole in the head. It is BS that like that makes people furious.
If this passes, who wants to go into business with me selling 100% guanteed, sodomite-free blood, at 20 times the price of the politically correct blood? Nearly every patient will demand our product and we will make a fortune.
The LIBS ARE NUCKING FUTS!!!
Even Bill Clinton’s CDC released figures a number of years ago reflecting that fully 85% of all AIDS/HIV cases are
1. Active, non-monogamous homosexuals,
(the largest subset)
2. Heterosexuals and bisexuals who have had sex with group 1 and
3. IV drug abusers who share needles.
(Kinda gives new meaning to Romans 6:23, doesn’t it?)
The remaining 15% are those who have contracted AIDS via other means (such as blood transfusions, making THEM the REAL victims of AIDS.
One homosexual “leader” on the West Coast URGED his fellow homosexuals to CONTINUE to
attempt to contaminate in order to involve the straight community in the push to increase federal funding for AIDS research. What a guy — er — gay!
That “research.” BTW, would be much less necessary if these folks would simply stop doing nasty and unhealthy things to themselves – and each other.
What will happen is the private market will set up its own facilities for members only that will discriminate to keep the blood supply safe. Will the Leftists go after them when that becomes reality? Of course! There isn’t anything they won’t destroy. (I know...double negative)
average homosexual of either gender lives markedly less than heterosexuals worldwide and have even from before AIDS
it’s a dirty little secret that causes homosexuals to point fingers and GOOGLE to try to dam up the info flow but it’s out there...
the cause is to some degree the nature of the sex but it’s in my view having watched homosexuals for decades that many of neurotic as hell and engage in destructive behavior.
You first Jon Cary...
The Spermatozoa-in-Chief?
Or Muslim Abaya for re-vows with Theresa?
And let’s not forget that AIDS invected gays can now freely enter the USA ...
and get lifetime free AIDS medicine,
the US taxpayers must pay for it, as these freeloaders certainly will not ...
Ha Ha Stupid Americans.
You lose again, we win again.
Let me guess, they’re going to determine the ‘insult to gay men’ outweighs the health of the hemophiliacs.
From 2006:
Gay and bisexual men — referred to in CDC surveillance systems as men who have sex with men (MSM)1 — of all races continue to be the risk group most severely affected by HIV. Additionally, this is the only risk group in the U.S. in
which the annual number of new HIV infections is increasing. There is an urgent need to expand access to proven HIV prevention interventions for gay and bisexual men, as well as to develop new approaches to fight HIV in this population.
A Snapshot:
MSM account for nearly half of the more than one million people living with HIV in the U.S. (48%, or an estimated 532,000 total persons).
MSM account for more than half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. each year (53%, or an estimated 28,700 infections).
MSM is the only risk group in the U.S. in which new HIV infections are increasing. While new infections have declined among both heterosexuals and injection drug users, the annual number of new HIV infections among MSM
has been steadily increasing since the early 1990s.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/FastFacts-MSM-FINAL508COMP.pdf
From 2004:
....should the gay lifestyle be encouraged? Health care professionals are familiar with the medical challenges of homosexual men living the gay lifestyle. For you, the taxpayer, to be willing to pay government benefits for gay marriage or civil unions, you should consider what lifestyle your tax dollars will be supporting.
Remember, homosexual activity began “coming out of the closet” in 1973. Just eight short years later, in 1981, we have the first reported cases of an “unknown” disease killing gay men. AIDS has arrived..........
From 1981 through 1999, there were 751,965 cumulative reported cases of AIDS in the U.S. At least 56 percent of the AIDS diagnoses occurred in gay or bisexual men. In other words, two percent of the population had at least 56 percent of those reported AIDS diagnoses. The second largest group was IV drug users. What about heterosexual sex? In the U.S., persons who have been infected with HIV through heterosexual contact have usually had intercourse with someone in one of the high-risk categories — a bisexual male or someone who is an IV drug user. [13]
In the past 17 years, medications to combat HIV have been developed, which has decreased the numbers of persons with HIV progressing to an AIDS disease. A person diagnosed with HIV will be put on a complicated drug regimen (three or four drugs). The patient will be on these drugs, which have very unpleasant side effects, for life. However, one catastrophic problem combating HIV is that a person who is HIV-positive and receiving medication is still able to infect other people. The number of people in the U.S. that are HIV-positive has continued to grow. There are approximately 42,000 Americans infected with HIV each year (74 percent men, 26 percent women). The CDC estimates that 25 percent of persons who are HIV-positive are unaware they are infected, and 50 percent of all new diagnoses occur in persons younger than 25 years. Persons who have other sexually transmitted diseases (with sores) have a two-to-three times greater risk for becoming infected with HIV. It is now estimated that there are between 900,000 and 1,000,000 persons in the U.S. who are HIV-positive (included in that estimate are 400,000 to 450,000 gay/bisexual men). The medical community anticipates that there will soon be a large increase in AIDS; in the first three months of this year, there have already been 8,910 new cases diagnosed.
In addition to the physical, psychological, and emotional devastation of HIV/AIDS is the high cost of treatment. The wholesale cost for the combination drug therapies treating HIV is about $14,000 annually per patient. (Medication costs can be much higher depending on the drugs included in the regimen.) A study completed in 2002 estimated that costs treating patients who had progressed to an AIDS disease were around $34,000 annually per patient. [14] Variations in this approximation include medications, hospitalization, diagnostic costs and clinic costs. The health care costs of AIDS diseases and drugs for treating HIV have impacted your health insurance premiums tremendously. The direct costs of HIV/AIDS are similar to other very serious illnesses; however, the indirect costs are higher since HIV affects predominantly working-age persons. [15]
http://theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/22SxSo/PnSx/HSx/PhrmGayMrg.htm
Health risks of gay sex:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/homosexuality/ho0075.html
Blood Donations from Men Who Have Sex with Other Men-Questions and Answers
Men who have had sex with men since 1977 have an HIV prevalence (the total number of cases of a disease that are present in a population at a specific point in time) 60 times higher than the general population, 800 times higher than first time blood donors and 8000 times higher than repeat blood donors (American Red Cross). Even taking into account that 75% of HIV infected men who have sex with men already know they are HIV positive and would be unlikely to donate blood, the HIV prevalence in potential donors with history of male sex with males is 200 times higher than first time blood donors and 2000 times higher than repeat blood donors.
http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/bloodbloodproducts/questionsaboutblood/ucm108186.htm
..That’s not all! Obama has lifted the ban against allowing HIV-infected immigrants into the US (costing US taxpayers approximately $1M in health care support for meds alone!) and increasing the chances of further contamination. HIV/AIDS is rampant in India AND Haiti—in case he failed to notice. Since HIV often does not appear in blood until 6 months AFTER exposure, this idea is the DUMBEST I have ever heard! Newer “quickie” tests have proved to be very unreliable, diagnosing people with HIV when they were actually negative and vice versa.
The standards also bar (and rightly so) from donating blood anyone who has ever paid for sex. Does Kerry want this restriction lifted as well?