Posted on 10/03/2014 6:36:43 PM PDT by 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.
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Ping.
And while they are at it they might as well call for allowing Thomas Eric Duncan’s family to donate his blood and his organs if he dies. After all, what harm could that do?
See here.
And no, I don't have Mad Cow Disease...but since there is that possibility, I can't ever donate.
But yet homosexual men are going to be allowed to do so.
That makes a whole lot of sense, doesn't it?
Why? In the case of a traumatic accident, you will receive the nearest unit of blood available from the public pool in the ER. If you have planned surgery, you or your compatible family members can donate beforehand.
Probably more like Ebolaphobic.
http://americanthinker.com/2014/10/why_we_cannot_trust_the_white_house_on_ebola.html#ixzz3F5VbRVIK
I say to hell with them, I'm not going out like that.
Any ebo's jumping the border or lying their way in on a plane should be charged with (at the least) attempted murder.
Or correct me if there is a charge more appropriate.
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ping
Agree...... they just want their stuff back before the elections :) :)
I read it’s projected soon 50% of homosexuals over 50 will have HIV, so it definitely shouldn’t be allowed.
As far as HIV goes, it is an established fact that the incidence of AIDS is much higher in the gay community than in the general population so those that engage in that risky behavior should be excluded. Although blood is tested for the presence of the virus, there is a "window" after infection during which the blood test will be negative even though the person is capable of transmitting the infection through blood or blood products.
IV drug use is another high-risk category of donors that are excluded, not just because of HIV, but also Hepatitis B and C. It is typical of the gay and lesbian lobby to complain because they cannot do whatever they want to do just because of "discrimination".
Of course, if they are determined to donate, they can always lie during the donor screening and not admit that they belong to any of the high risk groups.
How about Informed Choice?
You are handed a questionnaire asking you if needed would you agree to get Blood / Tissue / Organs from a Gay Man.
You answer Yes or No.
I’ll bet a whole bunch of Democrat Congress Critters would check the NO box.
Was there a more complete explanation? My husband lost the 1st joint on 2 adjacent fingers in an accident. He hasn’t tried to donate since. Just wondering what the reasoning is. Lost fingers/joints of fingers is a common injury.
Blood has to be processed through the crooked RC, it is a month long process, it is a fragile product, and thus does not have a long shelf life.
Platelets are a better way to go, they keep longer.
But if you have surgery planned you can pre bank your own blood, just do it a month before.
They no longer do donor to patient transfusions, every thing goes through the RC process.
We were faced with this issue when my DIL had to have a fast Mastectomy for stage 3 breast cancer. Sloppy doc wanted to do a radical, she wanted a skin sparing type. He nicked a vein, and had to go back in and repair it, as she was Bleeding OUT, they still wanted to treat it as a same day surgery. I threw a fit and they kept her over night.
24 hrs later I was taking her back to the ER as she was Bleeding out again. She had lost so much blood she needed a transfusion. She did NOT get 1, she is A-, None available. All she got was a 2 day stay in the hospital with IV and pain meds. And a script for iron pills, with no real instructions on usage or side effects. They don’t fill Iron pill scripts. You buy them in the Vitamin isle. Good thing I know about them, I had to buy them. And the WalMart didn’t have the Slo Fe kind which are the better ones.
Iron pills are not a good sub for a blood transfusion.
Marxism likes to spread misery around.
“”””Was there a more complete explanation?”””
All I know is what he told me.
Here is what the Red Cross says about giving blood (Doesn’t say anything about missing limbs):
I'll review it real quick for ya...HELL NO!
Tell them, "No. I'll only accept lesbian blood."
Hasn’t it not been an issue for lesbians, at least for HIV?
Well maybe, if they get it from an intravenous drug user, or from doing the wild thing with a packer.
Of course, the latter would kinda put them in another LGBTW category, wouldn’t it.
LOL! Yup I feel the same way!
My thoughts exactly. Blood donated by gay males goes to Dems only.
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