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 ...
They shouldn’t be allowed to. People who have travelled to countries with Ebola out breaks aren’t allowed to
IF you are donating to a blood bank associated with a teaching med school ( e.g Stanford blood bank), you can give but the blood is used for research purposes.it is never in the same room as blood for people who need transfusions
I donated right after 9-11. It wasn’t until 2002 that I was forever banned because I had been stationed in Germany in the early 1980’s.
So shut up, FAGGIES!!! You worthless disease ridden drama queens!!
Trump should talk about this- Hillary is for gays so much that her husbands people sold infected blood from Prisoners..
I wonder if a gay man needed blood and was told his transfusion was from another gay man....
Would he be concerned?
My guess is yes, unless he was already HIV positive...
Homosexuals still engage in risky behaviors.
Yes, “If it saves just one life.”
Good.
Damn good.
Yeah, given that the rest of us don’t want their diseases.
They don’t want your blood if you have had cancer within the last 12 months. That was me, and it was something that I had no desire to share with others. What is up with these people?
They want heterosexual America to experience the full experience of being LGBT.
I believe you took the words right out of my mouth!
So damn tired of these whiners. I really want to see the faces of the money men/women/things behind this constant pushing of this sick weird twisted lifestyle freaks.
Saw a dude in a skirt today at the grocery store. Twirling his long hair all casual...I laughed, arrest me!
A good friend’s husband had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and they were considering surgery for him. She asked me to donate and all I could say was ‘if they allow direct donation, I will’. The hospital said no. There was no surgery after all and he died two months later. I know I couldn’t have helped him anyway, but it still aggravates me 9 years later.
Leftist environmentalists have stated they have a goal to reduce the World population by billions of people.
Using is a trait of the left, and here we possibly see them using the gay issue to spread incurable disease to achieve their goal.
Just a thought.
You've heard of "whispering campaigns"....we should have "laughing campaigns".
STIGMA Works!
The leftist homofascists want to infect as many straights as they can for payback. The same way they want to convert straight children to fellow homo perverts. There's no other way to say it - They're mentally ill.
Those are hardly the only diseases of concern there.
“petitioning the FDA to change its policy and screen donors “based on behavior, not sexual orientation...”
For the most part it is the behavior, not the orientation, that concerns people about homosexuals.
Beyond assassiné. I concurr
Label it GAY BLOOD.
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Don’t have to do that.
It’s not red, it’s RAINBOW.
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