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Gay Blood Donation Ban Could Be Lifted: Gay men may donate blood if abstinent for a year.
US News and World Report ^
| 11/14/2013
| By Nikki Schwab
Posted on 11/14/2014 7:17:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Gay men just got a step closer to being able to donate blood.
Since 1983, men who have had sex with men anytime since 1977 were barred from donating blood, a policy put in place because of the HIV/AIDs epidemic, which especially ravaged the gay community in its early years.
But on Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety voted 16-2 to tweak the ban, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, suggesting instead that men who have had sex with men could give blood, but with a caveat. Theyd have to be abstinent for one year.
It will be the Food and Drug Administration that makes the final call, but generally the HHS panels advice is respected.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abstinence; aids; antibreeder; blood; blooddonation; bloodsupply; bloodtransfusion; cultureofcorruption; deathpanels; democratscandals; fdrq; gay; homofascism; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; lifestylechoice; lowlifeexpectancy; lyingliars; politicallycorrect; stds
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To: SoFloFreeper
I thought abstinence wasn’t effective!!
Are you going to have them swear on the Bible?? They were abstinent?
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:29:45 PM PST
by
tallyhoe
To: SeekAndFind
Oh, yes that’s a provable fact we can all depend on.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:29:50 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: doc1019
Theyd have to be abstinent for one year
Yeah right, just take a quick look at M4M sex ads on Craigslist Personals and they can’t abstain for 5 minutes. Barack probably hasn’t obstained since he got brown stains from Pop Frank Marshall Davis.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:29:58 PM PST
by
wetgundog
(ua)
To: doc1019
Bingo. How will this be enforced? Notice there is no way to do this. And why is 1.5 % of the population so important for blood donations?
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:31:34 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: wetgundog
Mark me Jehovah’s Witness, please!
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:32:11 PM PST
by
urbanpovertylawcenter
(the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
To: tallyhoe
Nor would any logical thinking person ... but then again, we are talking about a government entity. ;-)
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:32:49 PM PST
by
doc1019
To: SeekAndFind
Thats too bad.
Weve donated blood on Christmas Eve to the Red Cross for more years than I care to admit. We brought our kids with us, so they wouldnt be afraid of the procedure and would see donating as a positive thing when they were old enough to be donors, themselves.
From other articles Ive read, The Red Cross is cool with polluting our blood supply with HIV and gawd knows what else.
Guess the tradition ends, now. Politically Correct people can do as they please; I want no more part of this.
If anything, Ill now SELL my plasma, versus freely GIVING my blood to these PC idiots.
@#$%^&*!
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:32:59 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: wetgundog
What healthcare workers know.
Patients don’t often tell the truth about their health.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:33:32 PM PST
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: SeekAndFind
How do they prove it? Oh. They say they were. Got it.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:33:47 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: SeekAndFind
Makes total sense to me - HIV positive - abstinent for a year - what could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:35:06 PM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: Fungi
They are not ... just exercising their “rights”, and to hell with the rest of humanity.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:36:25 PM PST
by
doc1019
To: SeekAndFind
If anyone contracts HIV from a blood transfusion due to this PC decision, all 16 people on this Committee who voted to “tweak” this ban, should be immediately be executed, IMO.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:39:12 PM PST
by
Pox
(Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
To: SeekAndFind
The honor system only works with honorable people.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:39:36 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
To: SeekAndFind
And so the lame duck Executive Order Session begins!
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:42:04 PM PST
by
lightman
(O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
To: Pox
“If anyone contracts HIV from a blood transfusion due to this PC decision, all 16 people on this Committee who voted to tweak this ban, should be immediately be executed, IMO. “
Just like the people involved in the Arkansas Blood Scandals, when prison blood infected a boatload of people. Nobody went to jail.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:42:59 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: SeekAndFind
Theyd have to be abstinent for one year. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah, right.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:43:46 PM PST
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: SeekAndFind
This one looks like opportunity, right after I build up my own blood bank.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:45:21 PM PST
by
cdcdawg
To: TLI
People could be lying already about if they are “gay.” What is the actual incidence of HIV in banked blood, can someone say. I get the idea this is all for public consumption and in private they still tell, to prevent bringing real wrath on their community.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:46:06 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: SeekAndFind
Answer: We don’t, and they will lie. Good God, what is wrong with these fools?
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:48:05 PM PST
by
Catsrus
(al)
To: SeekAndFind
Why do they want to kill everybody?
Let gays provide blood to gays. I’m good with that.
They will shoot themselves in the head anyway.
Leave me the hell alone.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:48:48 PM PST
by
eyedigress
(e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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