homo-loathe, most of them have to look it up...
Posted on 12/23/2014 11:05:08 AM PST by reaganaut1
The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it would scrap a decades-old lifetime prohibition on blood donation by gay and bisexual men, a change that experts said was long overdue and could lift the annual blood supply by as much as 4 percent.
The F.D.A. enacted the ban in 1983, early in the AIDS epidemic. At the time, little was known about the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes the disease, and there was no quick test to determine whether somebody had it. But science — and the understanding of H.I.V. in particular — has advanced in the intervening decades, and on Tuesday the F.D.A. acknowledged as much, lifting the lifetime ban but keeping in place a more modest block on donations by men who have had sex with other men in the last 12 months.
In a statement, the agency said it had “carefully examined and considered the scientific evidence” before changing the policy. It said it intended to issue a draft guidance detailing the change in 2015.
The shift puts the United States on par with European countries like Britain, which adjusted its lifetime ban in favor of a 12-month restriction in 2011. Men’s health advocates welcomed the move, saying that the ban was not based on the latest science and that it perpetuated stigma about gay men as a risk to the health of the nation. [...]
“This is a major victory for gay civil rights,” said I. Glenn Cohen, a law professor at Harvard University who specializes in bioethics and health. “We’re leaving behind the old view that every gay man is a potential infection source." He said, however, that the policy was “still not rational enough."
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why don’t we just all inject ourselves directly with HIV.
the destruction of America by the left goes on unabated.
This sounds like a terrible idea to me, then again I am told I am a homophobic, so maybe that`s it.
I did not know that I was a homophobic or that I hated my father.
Hmm. Don’t they already cover for the blood donors of contaminated blood? Now this was 7 years ago, but I suspect they still do it.
They said it’s so an employer doesn’t know whether you have allowed or contaminated blood. I guess some employers expect everyone to donate blood. They draw the blood from everyone and mark all the packages in such a way that they know the good from the bad, afterwards. But none of your co-workers or bosses know.
Can’t they do this with the HIV questionable blood drawn?
What’s to prevent a person who has chosen a homosexual lifestyle from just lying? I imagine legal consequences keep away some liars.
I am curious if blood banks can turn away homosexuals on their own initiative and what procedures they could have in place to detect liars.
If blood banks have legal authority to make their own decisions, I see a business opportunity.
Morons. Next up: a market for non-homosexual blood. Prices will soar.
Sigh. No, they're the HEALTHIEST people in our society. We really really have a death wish in the West.
As more than one person has said:
Label the blood with the donor and his sexual orientation.
The gay blood will go unused by all, including gay men, until doomsday.
This is a major victory for gay civil rights,” said I. Glenn Cohen, a law professor at Harvard University who specializes in bioethics and health. “We’re leaving behind the old view that every gay man is a potential infection source.” He said, however, that the policy was “still not rational enough.”
It’s irrational. There is no civil rights issue involved. There is a big public health issue, and as usual, stupidity rules.
I have been rethinking of blood use. Impoverished areas have blood selling storefronts. You cannot believe what diseases there can be in blood.
Yet one more reason to steer clear of Ductors.
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homo-loathe, most of them have to look it up...
filthy disease ridden queers
Quite true!! Sad and disgusting.
I know...this is not medicine. This is greed. Plus, how effective for reducing population like the commies & socialists desire?
no rule about only gay recepients?
This FDA like all the departments and agencies that Obama intimidates is not serving the public anymore, it's serving the the fascist left.
Anyone who gets AIDS as a result of this change will sue.
Will Obama and Holder be the first in line to donate? Just speculatin’!
Why do I think of that song from Team America?
“AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, everybody has AIDS, AIDS, AIDS.
My grandma has AIDS, my mother has AIDS, my father has AIDS.
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, everybody has AIDS, AIDS, AIDS.”
Is there currently testing of all blood that identifies “bad” blood?
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