Posted on 07/07/2014 2:19:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Bay Area congressman is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to lift the ban preventing gay and bisexual men from donating blood.
Mike Honda (D-San Jose) started an online petition to try to get the FDA to overturn the ban. He says the ban is based on decades-old fears that have been discounted by science.
After holding a news conference Monday afternoon, Honda will be joined by other leaders - including Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen and County Supervisor Dave Cortese - for a blood drive outside the county administration building on Hedding Street.
Honda's online petition has more than 51,000 signatures so far.
Family of Woman Hit by CHP Officer Plans to Sue The South Bay congressman is not the first Bay Area politician to take a stance against the law. In August 2013, then-mayor of Campbell Evan Low hosted a blood drive and tried to roll up his sleeves and donate. Low was turned away because he is gay.
Low said it was discrimination and called on the FDA to repeal the ban.
The FDA policy has been in place since 1977.
> Low said it was discrimination and called on the FDA to repeal the ban.
There are reasons that idiots get what’s coming to them and I see he is ripe for harvest...
His pic explains much. His “insert brain” compartment is empty obviously.
How many countries let gays donate into their blood supply ???!?
And if they become infected then donor, the local blood center, and the people who approved this contribution should be held legally liable for their decision.
No if, ands, or buts.
If this ban is overturned it is just more proof that the US Government is practicing biological warfare against its citizens. Kinda like inviting a bunch of illegal invaders with serious communicable diseases to cross out southern border and then sending them all over the country w/o screening or treatment.
Its just not fair that some “folks” don’t participate in owebama’s plans to “spread the diseases around”. now that everyone has owebamacare what could possibly go wrong?
“Looking closer at the chart, being gay increases your risk by a factor of 12, over being a needle using junkie.”
Even eliminating AIDS from the picture, a male who has sex with a male has, on average, a 24 year shorter lifespan than a comparable other male.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811137/posts
A smoker, for comparison, shortens his life by 7.
Even though they are much richer?
Interesting. Won’t see that on the evening news.
I am not aware that gays are “richer,” although I bet they have higher disposable income because they are not “savers” and also generally don’t support children.
I wouldn’t put it past them.
Homosexuals can already donate their filthy blood. They just have to lie on the questionnaire about being a degenerate.
The concern on giving blood is for the potential recipient, not the donor. Really, in such a serious issue, who cares what you (gays) think? It’s not about you. Why do you care so much? You don’t, just want to raise a stink and endanger lives.
“nteresting. Won’t see that on the evening news.”
Nope. The science behind the studies is very sound, but political suicide to touch.
The MSM articles mock the science because it comes from various conservative groups, but do not touch the fact that it is true.
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Stop beating around the bush.
Okay.
My brother died of AIDS. Many of his friends succumbed to Kaposi’s Sarcoma as well.
I would not like to see their pestilences spread among the general population of people
who are decent and do not use themselves perversely.
Maybe the Jehovah’s Witnesses have a point.
The more charter Americans we can get infected with something, the sooner we can take over the place.
You first....
Didn’t think so.
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