Democrats call for HHS review of gay blood, organ donations

The Hill ^ | 10/03/14 | Ramsey Cox

[Enlightened1]

Democrats are demanding the Obama administration update its policy to allow gay men to donate blood, tissue and organs.

On Monday, a group of lawmakers led by Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell asking her to change current policy to allow men who have had sex with other men to donate blood, organs and tissue.

The lawmakers said the current ban promotes stereotypes that gay men have HIV and discriminates against them.

[Enlightened1]

Spreading death...

US to lift ban on gay HIV infested men to donate blood far and wide.

I'm starting to think the Democrats are a death cult?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Way past time to start donations to personalized blood bank.

[EagleUSA]

More liberal total political insanity. The DemocRat party is far more dangerous to America than ISIL.

[Smellin Salt]

Does the liberal left lunacy ever end?

[clintonh8r]

They are indeed a death cult...abortion, euthanasia, importing ebola and worse, HIV/AIDS in the blood bank system, excusing the other death cult of mohammedonism, etc., etc., etc....The project their own self-hatred.

[icwhatudo]

The child diseases thanks to illegals, ebola, and now this.

They really do want to destroy America.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Great idea. Should limit the use of the blood and organs to registered Democrats to ensure conservatives, and especially those Tea Party terrorists, don’t share in the new abundance of blood and organs.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Democrats call for HHS review of gay blood, organ donations,”

Its unfair that only gay men (and druggies) get and give HIV/AIDs, just because of how they express their LOVE for each other.
That's discrimination.

Thats why libs want to spread the HIV around in the blood supplies. Liberalism =fairness.

[dontreadthis]

perfect timing

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think they should let “openly gay” homosexuals give blood with the stipulation that it can only be used on registered DemocRAT voters.

[novemberslady]

I don’t want anything from them.

[Rudder]

Promote stereotypes that gay men have HIV

or die

[CivilWarBrewing]

Why don’t we add Ebola blood while we’re at it. I mean, NOT to do so would be RACIST, right?

[mikefive]

What could possibly go wrong? We now have ebola and a respiratory infection brought by illegals to the US, so what could go wrong by allowing the most infected HIV group to give blood and organs. Do I really need the sarcasm tag?

[Red in Blue PA]

CDC: Gay men represent 2% of the population​, 52% of people with HIV Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) make up 2 percent of the U.S. population but are the group most definitively affected by HIV, with 63 percent of those newly infected by HIV representing this group. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly “Morbidity and Mortality” report shows that among persons newly infected with HIV in 2010, 63 percent were men who have sex with other men. Among Americans living with HIV, 52 percent were MSM – and a significant number of men with HIV are not receiving treatment. “Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent approximately 2 percent of the United States population, yet are the risk group most affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),” reads the Sept. 26 CDC report. “Most gay and bisexual men acquire HIV through anal sex, which is the riskiest type of sex for getting or transmitting HIV. “Having more sex partners compared to other men means gay and bisexual men have more opportunities to have sex with someone who can transmit HIV or another STD. Similarly, among gay men, those who have more partners are more likely to acquire HIV.” Just one in two gay or bisexual men who have been diagnosed with HIV receives treatment for the virus, and only 42 percent had achieved viral suppression. http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/10/01/cdc-gay-men-represent-2-percent-of-us-population-52-percent-of-people-with-hiv/

[Red in Blue PA]

CDC: Gay men represent 2% of the population​, 52% of people with HIV http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/10/01/cdc-gay-men-represent-2-percent-of-us-population-52-percent-of-people-with-hiv/

[Slyfox]

If I were working to mastermind a complete chaotic future for this country, I would definitely try getting gay blood back into the blood supply.

[massmike]

Are they that afraid the terrorist and ebola might miss some of us?????

[ealgeone]

Well why don't we just start accepting blood transfusions from people who've recently come from west Africa??

Boy, the dims are dense.

[Slyfox]

The lawmakers said the current ban promotes stereotypes that gay men have HIV and discriminates against them.

Discriminate. Yeah, people who are missing fingers can not give blood either.