Posted on 12/23/2014 11:05:08 AM PST by reaganaut1
Next the homosexuals will challenge the 12-month restriction.
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Of course they will. In practice, the ban hasn’t changed at all.
Not that I would have a transfusion now.
If homosexual donations only would account for 1%, then obviously public health considerations are not what's driving this. Thanks for making that clear.
My sister and her children can’t give blood because they once lived in Scotland.
I know that very well, from personal experience.
Yes, but many will die willingly in the name of PC.
The folks still have their heads up their anal exit passageways, and won’t hear about this. The media will deliberately and intentionally hide it from the public.
So there will be no outcry. P.S. why do you think the news was released today?
Your question has been answered in prior posts, but I can see a movement growing up where people will have designated blood donations if they’ve not stored their own. I.e., church or other member groups will have drives, or lists of people in the various blood types who will donate to another member in that type as the need arises.
And I can see businesses grow up where they have only very highly tested blood that one can buy beyond the standard blood banks. People who will have alternatives available to them will not be accepting transfusions from the general pool of blood banks.
I tried to give blood for my husband in the mid-90s, but they refused to take it. They said that they couldn’t because I was a relative, and they could only take blood from the Red Cross.
That sounds like a rule for that specific facility or chain, maybe a contract with the Red Cross?
I don’t know. I refused to allow them to give my husband blood. They weren’t happy.
Costs $150 a pint for blood.
Let’s see how much it goes up when the screening failures start.
Totally irresponsible. But I expected no less from this bunch.
What has changed that originally forced the FDA to impose the restrictions?
Nothing.
They have put countless people at risk.
So now “Gay Rights” trump public safety. I think all those who belong to banned groups (Hello some U.S. veterans) should demand all bans be lifted. It will be interesting to see the FDA’s response.
That would be a great idea, parallel to the Christian healthsharing ministries that escaped Obamacare requirements.
If we had Christian bloodbanks, you’d have a similar assurance of the lifestyle of the participants,
and subsequent reduced costs.
(Side note - obviously, the Christian/Jewish value system is inherently HEALTHIER and superior or these ministries wouldn’t be able to keep costs so low)
Well this is just great. I hope I never need blood. I don’t want an early death just because the government allows people with deadly STDs to donate blood.
We’ll never know...because they won’t tell us...
Hunkey friggin’ dory.
Here comes the AIDS epidemic.
If I ever have a transfusion, I will demand a non-gay-friendly service.
I guess I won’t be planning any surgery in the near future.
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