I Am a Gay Man From Orlando. Why Can’t I Donate Blood? (N.Y. Times)

The New York Times ^ | 6/15/16 | Blake Lynch

[Faith Presses On]

Related thread: From the 2015 FDA report that carefully studied the whole matter and concluded the one-year ban was necessary:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3440453/posts

The FDA report answers all the arguments made by this author on why the ban is still needed, including why the HIV-infection threat posed by sexually active gay men is too great, and why testing of blood isn't enough.

This author also mentions how some blood donation centers around the country still haven't lifted the lifetime ban, but in some cases, at the least, that may be due to the collected blood being used in products sent to other countries that haven't lifted their lifetime bans (the FDA report mentions that scenario).

The author also says that blood donation screening should be based on assessing individual risk. The FDA report rejects that, and a National Institutes of Health report on Italy's policy, which is IRA, says that it really hasn't been a substantial change anyway, due to the questions asked effectively resulting in a lifetime ban for sexually active gay men:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3729137/

[Faith Presses On]

I posted this thread mistakenly for a second time because an error report came up the first time I did so. Could you remove it please? Thank you.

[CarmichaelPatriot]

Because, until the HIV test is proven to be 100% accurate, your blood might give someone a death sentence.

[DiogenesLamp]

I Am a Gay Man From Orlando. Why Can’t I Donate Blood?

Because your life style choice makes you particularly prone to disgusting and life threatening diseases which can easily be spread through blood transfusions.

Making you feel good about yourself is not worth the killing and injuring of innocent people.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Call NOW!
We have a legion of lawyers waiting for your call!

You contracted aids from bad blood, call now!

You have aids and they refuse your donation, call now!!!

[Pollster1]

The duplicate thread doesn’t allow replies for some reason.

The lack of concern for gay men among liberals and among gays disgusts me. Conservatives don’t want them to die from a contagious and deadly disease. Liberals don’t want their feelings hurt and consider that more important than whether more people die of AIDS.

[Fido969]

Because we had enough blood from a gay man in Orlando.

[CGASMIA68]

Normal folk were coming out of the wood work to donate.No one needs his or any other homosexuals blood.

Ask Ryan White or Art Ash.Woops ya cant the are dead from aids tainted blood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White

[circlecity]

It’s not like there aren’t plenty of normal people to give blood. I heard there was a line around the block in Orlando of people coming to donate blood.

[DIRTYSECRET]

It’s because you don’t know what your buttonhole is for.

[DiogenesLamp]

Because, until the HIV test is proven to be 100% accurate, your blood might give someone a death sentence.

It's not just HIV. Homosexuals are a cesspool of vile diseases, among them Hepatitis C, which is also fatal.

Herpes, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, HPV, and so on are all rife within the homosexual community.

Having 500 - 1000 sexual partners in a lifetime drastically increases the odds of being infected with diseases such as these.

Spreading this crap into the blood supply is insane, and we should Violently oppose this effort if necessary.

[Faith Presses On]

This thread mistakenly posted twice. The other one I got an error report on, which is why I posted the thread again, but the other one isn’t allowing replies to be posted anyway. Could you remove it then please? Thank you.

[farming pharmer]

I wont take a transfusion until my Hgb < 6, all because of homosexuals giving blood.

[GreyFriar]

For the same reason I can’t because I had Hepatitis A when I was 12 years old, latent affects in the blood. Or my daughter who was born in Germany in 1984 can’t, a combination of the mad cow disease in Europe and Chernobyl during that time.

[DiogenesLamp]

Ask Ryan White or Art Ash.Woops ya cant the are dead from aids tainted blood.

Science Fiction author Isaac Asimov also died from AIDS contracted through Tainted blood. Lots of people were killed as a result of tolerating homosexual behavior.

[Cobra64]

I’m a straight man from North Carolina. Why would I want you donating diseased blood to other people? Furthermore, why do we even have gay/lesbian perversion threads on Free Republic? There’s probably a Gay Pride site or whatever catering to gays and the beastiality inclined.

[Blood of Tyrants]

“Making you feel good about yourself is not worth the killing and injuring of innocent people. “

It is if you are a liberal.

[Tupelo]

“I Am a Gay Man From Orlando.
Why Can’t I Donate Blood?”

Because you are a gay man.

[Nifster]

Simple you moron....you engage in high risk sexual activity. If you had travelled to Africa or a pika country you would not be allowed to donate either. it is imperative to keep the blood supply safe. Those who might be carrying cannot donate

[HarleyLady27]

"IN the 1980s, Bill Clinton's political cronies were selling HIV-and Hepatitis C-laced prison inmate blood to the world blood market. Unscreened prisoners would sell their blood for $7 (in prison script) per plasma unit to politically connected blood brokers who would then put it up for same on the world blood market for $50 per plasma unit. The company that brokered the blood was Health Management Associates, Inc. (HMA) Later in 1998, whistle-blower Mike Galster, under the pseudonym Michael Sullivan, wrote the novel BLOOD TRAIL, based on the scandal. "Although fiction, BLOOD TRAIL evolved from Sullivan's meditations on the true, tragic and ongoing story of a blood contamination that infected as many as 80,000 people in Canada," in inside flap read. "Thousands have died, many more have death sentences, and still more will suffer for life" War on Women pages 261-262