Posted on 12/06/2004 9:56:49 AM PST by raybbr
MILFORD — Devlin Mannle, 18, simply wanted to donate blood as part of Jonathan Law High School’s holiday blood drive last week.
The American Red Cross worker began asking Mannle a series of questions.
Had he been exposed to hepatitis? Malaria? Had he recently visited certain countries in Africa? Is he an intravenous drug user?
Mannle’s answer to each query was "No."
Then the worker asked another question.
"Have you had sex with a man?"
"Yes," Mannle answered.
(Excerpt) Read more at nhregister.com ...
In an effort to protect the nation’s blood supply from the HIV virus that causes AIDS, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has had a longstanding policy banning most gay men from donating blood.
The policy has angered many in the gay community, who view it as discriminatory and outdated. The FDA maintains that homosexual sex is an "at risk" activity for the spread of HIV and the need to protect the blood supply takes priority over the feelings of gay men.
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Or just click the link. You don't have to register to read this story.
Interesting. I had to register. Perhaps the link includes the registration?
"Interesting. I had to register. Perhaps the link includes the registration?"
Some papers let you link to stories and don't require registration to read just that story, even if they require registration if you go directly to the site. It varies.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
The only thing the protests will accomplish will be to force the Red Cross to accept the donations of blood but then dispose of them when no one is looking. I appreciate the honest approach of telling them they won't use the blood up front.
In an effort to protect the nation’s blood supply from the HIV virus that causes AIDS, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has had a longstanding policy banning most gay men from donating blood.
The policy has angered many in the gay community, who view it as discriminatory and outdated. The FDA maintains that homosexual sex is an "at risk" activity for the spread of HIV and the need to protect the blood supply takes priority over the feelings of gay men.
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I completely agree with this policy. If this young man wants to help, then he can volunteer something other than his blood. It is a fact that HIV/AIDS is transmitted via sexual contact, and even a condom isn't 100% protection. They don't allow women who have slept with IV drug users to donate either, from what I read late last week.
If he's offended by the Red Cross trying to protect people, then he needs to have his head examined.
Gee, maybe I should raise a ruckus too. I can't give blood anymore because I was stationed in Europe and got back on 18 July 1980 (the cutoff is the endo of June 1980) and there is a chance I was exposed to mad cow disease. The way I see it, the chances of my having mad cow disease are a lot less than a "Gay" person having AIDS. These people won't be happy until they get to kill a lot more innocents and the Leftists brainwashing campaign seems to be affecting a lot of young idiots. God help us all.
I wanted to donate blood after 9/11, but I was told that I couldn't because I'm diabetic and had used bovine insulin in the past 20 years. I was disappointed, but I didn't feel the need to make an issue out of it. I don't believe that I have mad cow disease, but you never know and I wouldn't want to be responsible for making other people sick.
Okay, stop the planet I'd like get off now.
These students simply have to be excised from our society before they murder more people.
What a self-centered jackass.
It's time we stopped putting the wants of the deviants ahead of the needs of the rest of society.
Thanks for posting.
The "protests" are absolutely ridiculous. The reason for the ban on contributing is quite clear.
It's like protesting the progressive income tax, because whites as a group pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes (assuming whites as a group have a higher average income than others). Ridiculous.
Let's stop this looking at everything as an opportunity to be offended and to claim membership in an oppressed group.
When the gay loving/gay agenda pushing liberals start advocation public health policies based on Political Correctness, it is time to drag them into civil courts.
This buttbreath should be advised that I, as a past end-user of banked blood (transfusion during surgery) I DON'T WANT his blood.
Then the FDA did something right. ^^
put his blood in the homosexual pool. or the stupid leftwinger pool.
I want my blood to come from vegetarian virgins under the age of 35.
This is about recipients of blood and their protection, not you.
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