Posted on 06/10/2010 9:12:41 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Groups urge government to lift lifetime restriction
Should gay men be allowed to donate blood? A government health committee is re-examining that question today.
A regulation created at the height of the 1980s' AIDS epidemic banned men who have had sex with another man since 1977 from ever giving blood.
Advocacy groups, blood-collection organizations and some members of Congress are calling for the Food and Drug Administration to revise the lifetime ban, which has been reviewed twice in the past 10 years, but left unchanged.
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From Nov.2007:
Transplant patient not told organ donor a homosexual.
A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high risk, and had previously rejected another donor “because of his lifestyle,” her attorney said.
The woman had been told the donor was a healthy young man, her attorney said. But on Tuesday, hospital officials disclosed to the woman that he was actually high-risk, a 38-year-old gay man, Demetrio said. CDC guidelines say that gay men who are sexually active should not be used as organ donors unless the patient is in imminent danger of death.
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But to state that the questionnaire will not have ANY effect on who gives is false. There are enough people who will not give if prohibited by the questionnaire that the decline in risk should be significant. And if "straight" people were anywhere near as risk-prone as homosexuals have been proven to be, yes, I'd want that behavior prohibited as well to qualify as a donor.
Their propaganda has always been: “Aids is everyone’s problem.” Now they want to make that falsehood a reality.
I was donating blood on a regular basis. Every time I was subjected to a barrage of questions about my travels and my sex life. The question sessions lasted for several minutes. They read each question and ask for a yes or no answer. I totally refuse to donate again until that mess stops. My blood pressure peaks when a young woman questions me about my sexual history.
I am in none of the high risk groups. I would have no problem reading the questions as a group and answering once.
Yep. In all honesty, I don’t think folks that are HIV+ are lining up to give blood.
They know better(for the most part).
The end result is what counts which is clean blood. No matter the donor.
Amen!
LLS
If anything, the prohibition creates a formal censure of this type of behavior, which tends to have a powerful effect on those who would otherwise like to violate health laws.
If you get the chance and haven't done so, peruse the CDC's website under HIV/AIDS and you might be appalled at the large number of cases attributed to such a small segment of the population. Any sane society would quarantine.
Let them donate blood but it only goes to other gay men.
You apparently don't understand the homo-agenda. They will demand that their blood be indistinguishable from all others in the blood supply. Otherwise, it would be "discriminaaaaation."
I'm not being facecious.
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