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The policy has angered many in the gay community, who view it as discriminatory and outdated.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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”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The policy has angered many in the gay community, who view it as discriminatory and outdated.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.
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.
This buttbreath should be advised that I, as a past end-user of banked blood (transfusion during surgery) I DON'T WANT his blood.
This is about recipients of blood and their protection, not you.
First they run around infecting each other with AIDS, then they complain that not enough is being done to stop the AIDS virus, then the complain when their blood is not wanted. Throughout all, they complain that they are not welcomed and embraced by mainstream society as they attempt to obtain (through the "back door" of rogue courts) a special, priviledged status in society. Very charismatic people.
So a married straight man having "unprotected" sex with his wife is supposed to be the HIV risk equivalent of a pervert having multiple other perverts sticking their penises in each other's rectums? All for the sake of said perverts' "feelings"? Beam me up Scotty...
It's not possible that anybody could be this rock-hard stupid, is it? Tell me it's not possible...
Shawn Lang, a member of the Connecticut AIDS Residence Coalition and co-chairman of the state’s AIDS policy group, agreed that the screening process asks the wrong questions and needs to change.
Statistically, more heterosexual women in Connecticut have AIDS than do gay men, he said.
Since there are at least twenty times as many heterosexual women in Connecticut than there are gay men, this is not altogether surprising. It is the rate of infection that is important. Shawn Lang is a supposed expert in the field and is either as dumb as a rock, dishonest, or both.
When I'm bleeding on a gurney, and I need a unit of blood, I don't much care if the person donating was offended, but I care deeply if the blood is infected with HIV. People just need to grow up and realize that it is not always about them.
It might also be nice if they realized that some sexual behaviors are a lot more risky than others, in spite of what the PC police would have you believe.
OK, here is an idea: We accept blood from gays, then send all that blood to San Francisco, Marin County and other designated 'areas of enlightenment'. We then use that blood only on Gays and people who voted for John Kerry.
This article is a hoax. I've donated blood many times. The workers give you a questionnaire to fill out in a private cubicle. They don't ask these questions to your face.
The donor is also given every opportunity to secretly label his own blood sample.