Posted on 06/28/2016 6:39:16 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
...Under current laws in the US — which are mirrored here in Australia and other parts of the Western world — gay men are unable to open a vein if they’ve had sexual intercourse in the past 12 months.
These restrictions sprung up during the AIDS panic in an era of widespread homophobia, where pastors and pundits publicly proclaimed that HIV was a divine plague on homosexuals.
Right now, there are less than 30,000 cases of HIV in Australia. Sounds low? That’s because it is — among the lowest rate in the world, in fact.
About two-thirds of these carriers are “men who have sex with men”. This means gay males are deemed what’s called an “at-risk minority”, especially in danger of acquiring HIV, and are automatically excluded from donating blood — again, unless they’re willing to declare they’ve been celibate for a full year.
Despite some not-so-recent advancements in testing which have shrunk the window of detection to mere weeks, and subsequent renewed calls — including from the Red Cross themselves — for the shortening of the deferral period to a more reasonable 6 months, the same rules still apply.
Never mind that this waiting period is unenforceable — because, really, if there was a way to tell if someone’s done the deed in the past 12 months, we’d know by now.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...
"Canada, It’s Time We Eliminated The Blood Ban," Zac Thomson, The Huffington Post
I would suggest anyone that is going to need a medical procedure to make sure you have your own blood available!!!
That is absolutely right, but the Clinton blood scandal from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas disappeared right on down the ol’ memory hole, thanks to their army of dirt bag sycophants and compliant and compromised libtard media accomplices.
How about these lib Dummycrats get a blood transfusion from an AIDs stricken homo and show us how it’s done?
GREAT idea! Why don’t they? Don’t they want to show their support for diversity and all of those oppressed social minorities?
HELL NO, they want you and me and everyone else to do that.
Cry me a F___ING river....
IV druggies cannot donate blood either and for the same G_Dmned good reasons!
It’s 2016 .
And there’s STILL no cure or vaccine for HIV
It should be brought back up. It’s a very serious matter and still highly relevant today. The Clinton corruption couldn’t be clearer. And even a website on the left wrote about it just last year (most likely because the owners supported Bernie Sanders):
It’s 2016. We still AIDS and STDs transmittable through blood of a high risk segment of the population....regardless if that hurts one’s feelings or not.
Let them donate. Label it GAY BLOOD. Give it to Democrats. Problem solved.
2016 and they still can’t figure out where to put it in.
Yes! Thank God we haven't completely lost our flipping minds. You have got to be some kind of brain dead stupid to want to allow blood from the AID, Herpes, Chlamydiae, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis, and Syphilis infected perverts.
Right now, there are less than 30,000 cases of HIV in Australia. Sounds low? That’s because it is — among the lowest rate in the world, in fact.
What do we tell those unlucky people? Do we thank them for their sacrifice because it makes Gay people feel better?
Ryan White and Arthur Ashe were unavailable for comment.
Because liberals are the biggest lying POS hypocrites on the planet. They’re also mentally insane.
I’m concerned about the the drug addicts right to donate blood. Imagine being turned down over a few track marks on the arm. It is an outrage that these people are so discriminated against that they can’t even give blood.
Thanks for the link, that’s a good article.
They're not "gay men" they're faggots. And it's not blood...it's sewage.
Can you say "blood-borne pathogens"?
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