Posted on 01/12/2017 6:56:00 AM PST by reaganaut1
IT shouldn’t be a big deal that I gave blood this week, but it is. To do it, I had to give up all forms of sex for a year. The reason: I’m gay.
With what we know today about the disease, it’s a stupid reason.
In 1985, in the early days of the AIDS crisis, the United States Food and Drug Administration recommended that men who had sex with other men be prohibited from donating blood indefinitely. This policy made sense at the time. In the decades since, the nation has made enormous progress against the virus. What was once a death sentence is now a treatable, chronic condition. And we can now detect what had been an elusive virus within seven to 28 days of infection, using nucleic acid testing.
In 2015, the agency modified the lifetime ban and allowed men who had sex with men to donate blood if they had abstained from sex for one year. This revision followed several years of study after an advisory committee found the lifetime ban “suboptimal.”
But this one-year blanket policy, which depends on the honesty of the would-be donor, still falls short by failing to consider a potential donor’s individual risk factors, an approach some other countries follow with success. As a result, this prohibition, which the American Public Health Association said “is not based in science but appears to be modeled after other countries’ choices and fears,” effectively forbids as many as two million potential donors to give blood, according to an analysis published in 2014 by the Williams Institute at the U.C.L.A. School of Law.
This past summer, the F.D.A. began the process of reconsidering its one-year policy.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
That was my first thought also. Their sexuality makes them quite corrupt in many ways and sex is the very first thing they are willing to lie about.
Alternatively, he could have sought help for his sexual molestation as a child.
Well, that's great if you have it already. But no one in their right mind wants to get it. Think about it -- your medical condition requires a transfusion, and on top of that, you wind up getting AIDS from tainted blood which was donated by someone who shares needles or has unhygienic sexual habits.
Have your sex and keep your blood.
Why not stop being gay, permanently? Repent and God will forgive you. He doesn’t need your tainted blood. He wants your repentance. He wants you to stop forever, the abomination of gay sex.
God didn’t make you gay, sin did.
Fake News
There should be a LIFETIME ban against males who have sex with males from giving blood!
It’s the only SANE public health policy!!!!
If “gays” want to “feel good about themselves”, they might try repentance!! Really!!!!
Did bammy ever allow them to donate blood and to potentially contaminate the general blood supply? I don’t recall if he ever allowed it.
Wanna bet there’s a special supply of blood for the ruling elite? Wanna bet they don’t subject themselves to the same dangers they subject us to?
Trump is on the way.
Absolutely. I don’t want any blood ever from anyone with a history of romancing the exhaust pipe.
Then there is always the 'gay bowel syndrome'.
He sooo wants to wear the “I Gave Blood Today” sticker, so he appears just as normal as the rest of us.
I also abstained from sex all year, but it was not my choice.
Didn’t Clinton sell most of that tainted blood to Canada?
A real globalist even then
They are finding a massive growth of antibiotic resistant infections among homosexuals, most recently Shigella.
That alone is reason to say nope, not gonna risk giving antibiotic resistant infections of all types to people in a vulnerable state.
MAYBE MINIMIZING RISK *OF DEATH* IS NOT AS IMPORTANT TO HIM AS GAY PEOPLE’S ‘FEELINGS’
I’ve donated blood a number of times and I don’t ever remember anyone asking me if I had sex with men as part of the preparation.
OK ... let's say I'm severely injured in some sort of industrial accident, and I get a transfusion in ER. And it came from this freak. And I get some horrid, incurable disease. And I sue him. And win a judgment against him for 100 Trillion Dollars. And he's prosecuted. And convicted. And goes to prison for the rest of his life.
Guess what?
I still have the horrid, incurable disease.
Help me out here: WHY is donating blood to be considered “a right”?????
That’s ok Jay, you claimed to have waited for a year to donate blood.
they threw it in the trash anyway.
If your Gay please don’t donate blood to a blood bank.
And as usual, the homo is on his honor to tell the truth. When will the insanity end!? Oh wait, 8 days!!! WOOHOO!
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