[Faith Presses On]

Related thread: From the 2015 FDA report that carefully studied the whole matter and concluded the one-year ban was necessary:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3440453/posts

The FDA report answers all the arguments made by this author on why the ban is still needed, including why the HIV-infection threat posed by sexually active gay men is too great, and why testing of blood isn't enough.

This author also mentions how some blood donation centers around the country still haven't lifted the lifetime ban, but in some cases, at the least, that may be due to the collected blood being used in products sent to other countries that haven't lifted their lifetime bans (the FDA report mentions that scenario).

The author also says that blood donation screening should be based on assessing individual risk. The FDA report rejects that, and a National Institutes of Health report on Italy's policy, which is IRA, says that it really hasn't been a substantial change anyway, due to the questions asked effectively resulting in a lifetime ban for sexually active gay men:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3729137/

[Faith Presses On]

I posted this thread mistakenly for a second time because an error report came up the first time I did so. Could you remove it please? Thank you.

[CarmichaelPatriot]

Because, until the HIV test is proven to be 100% accurate, your blood might give someone a death sentence.

[DiogenesLamp]

I Am a Gay Man From Orlando. Why Can’t I Donate Blood?

Because your life style choice makes you particularly prone to disgusting and life threatening diseases which can easily be spread through blood transfusions.

Making you feel good about yourself is not worth the killing and injuring of innocent people.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Call NOW!
We have a legion of lawyers waiting for your call!

You contracted aids from bad blood, call now!

You have aids and they refuse your donation, call now!!!

[Fido969]

Because we had enough blood from a gay man in Orlando.

[circlecity]

It’s not like there aren’t plenty of normal people to give blood. I heard there was a line around the block in Orlando of people coming to donate blood.

[farming pharmer]

I wont take a transfusion until my Hgb < 6, all because of homosexuals giving blood.

[GreyFriar]

For the same reason I can’t because I had Hepatitis A when I was 12 years old, latent affects in the blood. Or my daughter who was born in Germany in 1984 can’t, a combination of the mad cow disease in Europe and Chernobyl during that time.

[Cobra64]

I’m a straight man from North Carolina. Why would I want you donating diseased blood to other people? Furthermore, why do we even have gay/lesbian perversion threads on Free Republic? There’s probably a Gay Pride site or whatever catering to gays and the beastiality inclined.

[Tupelo]

“I Am a Gay Man From Orlando.
Why Can’t I Donate Blood?”

Because you are a gay man.

[Nifster]

Simple you moron....you engage in high risk sexual activity. If you had travelled to Africa or a pika country you would not be allowed to donate either. it is imperative to keep the blood supply safe. Those who might be carrying cannot donate

[HarleyLady27]

"IN the 1980s, Bill Clinton's political cronies were selling HIV-and Hepatitis C-laced prison inmate blood to the world blood market. Unscreened prisoners would sell their blood for $7 (in prison script) per plasma unit to politically connected blood brokers who would then put it up for same on the world blood market for $50 per plasma unit. The company that brokered the blood was Health Management Associates, Inc. (HMA) Later in 1998, whistle-blower Mike Galster, under the pseudonym Michael Sullivan, wrote the novel BLOOD TRAIL, based on the scandal. "Although fiction, BLOOD TRAIL evolved from Sullivan's meditations on the true, tragic and ongoing story of a blood contamination that infected as many as 80,000 people in Canada," in inside flap read. "Thousands have died, many more have death sentences, and still more will suffer for life" War on Women pages 261-262

[Faith Presses On]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3440270/posts

This is a related thread I posted yesterday on how the Democratically controlled media outlets are doing flimsy propaganda pieces on this.

They now include: The N.Y. Times, Washington Post, NBC, ABC, Time, Newsweek, Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Salon, Cosmopolitan, Slate, Boston Globe editorial, San Francisco Chronicle, Mediaite and LawNewz, LiveScience - to name just some.

All of these reports simply ignore the FDA report that lays out their reasons for keeping a one-year ban. The report carefully documents how the studied the issue and arrived at their decisions. Yet the media is reporting misinformation.

[Hot Tabasco]

Ask Ryan White

[Lazamataz]

I’m mixed on this one. If there are instant disease checks available, I don’t see why gays can’t donate blood.

If I’m an operating table, I don’t care who’s blood it is, as long as its been tested for diseases.

[PhiloBedo]

“AIDS,AIDS,AIDS,everybody has,AIDS,AIDS,AIDS!”

[Uncle Miltie]

A: Aids.

Next!

[hal ogen]

Because you may be a carrier of weird germs???”

[Jack Hammer]

If you have to ask, you’re too stupid to comprehend.

[Redmen4ever]

The reason gays “can’t” donate blood is the same reason I can’t. I served in Germany during the time of Mad Cow disease. As a consequence, there is a chance my blood is no good.

The way the Red Cross screens blood is to mix the blood of many donors into a big sample, and then test the sample. They don’t test each donor. Maybe because of expense or because the testing process destroys the blood’s usefulness. In any case, if any donor in a sample has bad blood, they throw out the entire amount.

Having been in the army, I was happy to give blood. And, from time to time, I even felt a need to give blood to show solidarity. I therefore appreciate that this man would like to donate blood even though his motivation in this case is a little selfish. To me, you should give blood because some other American (or an ally of our country) needs blood. Not because somebody of your group needs blood.