They should mark the donated blood LGBT ONLY.
Are they insane???
From the American Red Cross guidelines:
You are not eligible to donate if:
You were a member of the of the U.S. military, a civilian military employee, or a dependent of a member of the U.S. military who spent a total time of 6 months on or associated with a military base in any of the following areas during the specified time frames
From 1980 through 1990 - Belgium, the Netherlands (Holland), or Germany
From 1980 through 1996 - Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Italy or Greece.
...but if you sell raw milk we will kick down your door, shoot your dog and burn the motherf*cker down.
Autologous blood is when you ‘bank’ your own blood prior to surgery.
You can have blood taken from 6 weeks to 5 days before your surgery.
Your blood is stored and is good for a few weeks from the day it is collected.
If your blood is not used during or after surgery, it is thrown away.
Is the blood supply so needy that the contribution from less than 2% of the population is really worth the risk of all the diseases they carry?
This is wrong, in every way possible.
The FDA might lift it, but I’m sure the Red Cross and other agencies will still be loathe to accept blood from men who are active homosexuals. Ryan White contracted AIDS from having received tainted blood in his treatments for hemophilia. Will the Red Cross and other agencies subject themselves to lawsuits in an effort to placate homosexual men?
And, people TRUST the FDA????
A few homosexuals believe there’s a cure for HIV that would be released if enough straight people would just contract HIV.
Since the blood supply is now screened for HIV antibodies & antigens, the chance of getting HIV from blood is very small. Blood would get more expensive because more unusable blood would have to be processed.
Good! all the gay mens blood should be put aside for the FDA employees and thier families
Why doesn’t the gay community build their own hospital where they can take pride in. They can build 57 hospitals, one in each State.
Then, I wonder how many gays would go to a gay hospital.
Insanity.
Let them give their blood to each other.
“It’s a little crazy that you can shed blood for your country, but you can’t donate blood to another human being,” he added.
Does this jack of fools even know what it means to donate blood? Does he think it means putting it in a carryall for someone to take home and use later for garden fertilizer? Does he get it goes inside another person’s body?
I’ll bet that a poll of gay men and women would show that the majority would not knowingly want blood from a gay male donor.
As soon as this is allowed I will stop giving indefinitely.