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Ban on gay men giving blood 'discriminatory': Murray, Cantwell, other senators
Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 6/20/16 | Joel Connelly

Posted on 06/20/2016 4:23:19 PM PDT by Faith Presses On

A partial federal ban on gay men donating blood is "discriminatory" and hurtful in that it turned away potential donors after the June 12 massacre that killed 49 men and women at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, 24 U.S. Senators said in a letter Monday.

Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., were among 23 Democrats and one Republican -- Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois -- who signed the letter to U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Robert Califf.

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"Yet, some of those most touched by this tragedy -- members of the LGBT community, who are especially eager to contribute to the response effort -- are finding themselves turned away."

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"Based on advances in science and blood screening and safety technology, we expect that the new, one-year deferral policy is just the first step toward ending discrimination against MSM (men who have sex with men) in our donor deferral policies," the senators wrote.

"A one-year deferral continues to perpetuate inaccurate stereotypes about an entire group of individuals, and remains a de facto lifetime ban for many healthy gay and bisexual men."

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 114th; bloodsupply; homosexualagenda; publichealth
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Lifting U.S. curbs on gay blood donors seen years away: experts, Reuters:

"Blood supply experts say the FDA will need to determine whether the move to a one-year waiting period for gay and bisexual men made the blood supply less, more or just as safe.

"That effort will take several years, and only then would the agency be able to consider relaxing its restrictions further, said Brian Custer, who has led a number of studies on the nation's blood supply and is associate director of the Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI) in San Francisco.

"Removing the waiting period altogether would also likely require a large-scale study that tested blood samples of people who would be banned under current criteria, said Dr. Michael Busch, a co-director of BSRI. Busch helped discover in the 1980s that HIV could be transmitted through blood transfusions.

1 posted on 06/20/2016 4:23:19 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
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To: Faith Presses On

Never forget the hemophiliac die-off of the ‘80s that was a direct result of AIDS-infected homosexuals donating blood.


2 posted on 06/20/2016 4:24:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If the Orlando terrorist doesnÂ’t represent all Muslims, why does he represent all gun-owners?)
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Let gay men indiscriminately donate blood...as long as it is properly cataloged and used only for muslim patients


3 posted on 06/20/2016 4:25:18 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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“were among 23 Democrats and one Republican — Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois”

that clown aint a “Republican”. He’s a Dummycrat pretending to be GOP.


4 posted on 06/20/2016 4:25:37 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: Faith Presses On
"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
5 posted on 06/20/2016 4:26:07 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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****A partial federal ban on gay men donating blood is “discriminatory”****

Yep, it sure is. And it is also the right thing to do. Discrimination is our friend.


6 posted on 06/20/2016 4:26:24 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If people die so they can feel accepted, what s that to them? They’re gonna die younger because of their perversion, so why shouldn’t others too?


7 posted on 06/20/2016 4:29:05 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Faith Presses On

So lets see.
Dont recognize a muslim terrorist,
take away our ability to protect our family and self
and now let AIDS carriers donate blood.

Whats the problem??


8 posted on 06/20/2016 4:29:47 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Let them Donate and let the Person receiving their Blood sign a Release of Liability if the Blood is contaminated.

BTW - How do the Donation Centers know if the Donor is Gay?

Is there a Flamboyancy Test?

Do they play Broadway Show Tunes and watch for quirky Body Movement?

Voice Recognition Software that detects a Lisp?

Flash a picture of Katherine Zeta Jones and see if the Donors Pupils dilate?

9 posted on 06/20/2016 4:30:01 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Scandals were Brains, Hillary would be the smartest person on the Planet.)
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To: Faith Presses On
Ban on gay men giving blood 'discriminatory': Murray, Cantwell, other senators

D@mn right it is! It is the rational discrimination between healthy people and disease ridden people.

10 posted on 06/20/2016 4:31:11 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Faith Presses On

the only discrimination involved is trying to protect our emergency blood supplies... and the rest of us from innocently getting AIDS

it is NO harm at all to someone with AIDS if he can’t donate his blood, this is the stupidest claim I’ve ever heard from the homosexual lobby , it doesn’t make even the simplest of sense


11 posted on 06/20/2016 4:31:34 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Kickass Conservative

It’s called “telling the truth.”

Evidently you consider that to be aberrant behavior.


12 posted on 06/20/2016 4:31:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If the Orlando terrorist doesnÂ’t represent all Muslims, why does he represent all gun-owners?)
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To: Kickass Conservative

You are also not supposed to donate blood if you have ingested aspirin in the past 72 hours.

Is that discrimination too?

And of course you could lie and say you hadn’t taken aspirin within 72 hours, and if somebody dies because of it so what?

The important thing is you got to donate blood, because it’s all about you.


13 posted on 06/20/2016 4:34:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If the Orlando terrorist doesnÂ’t represent all Muslims, why does he represent all gun-owners?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

These liberal idiots are trying to kill others for their own stupidity.

Ill bet none of these asshole Dems will even try to get blood from one of these homos if their own child needed a transfusion.


14 posted on 06/20/2016 4:35:32 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: Faith Presses On

Stooooopid idiots


15 posted on 06/20/2016 4:37:43 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Gee, I didn't see that coming.

What's the problem, you lost your Sense of Humor in a Tragic Boating Accident?

Just so you know, I had to receive Blood Transfusions for an entire Month due my Leukemia making a comeback.

Six Months later, I get a call from my Oncologist telling me that the LAST Pint of Blood I received came from a Donor who had come in to give Blood again and they had Hepatitis C. I had to see an Infectious Disease Specialist and get tested. Lucky for me the tests came back Negative so the Donor must have contracted Hep C after the earlier Donation that I received. Tell me, how does someone get Hep C, especially someone who regularly Donates Blood and who would most likely be very careful, or so we would think?

16 posted on 06/20/2016 4:39:56 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Scandals were Brains, Hillary would be the smartest person on the Planet.)
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To: Faith Presses On

So how many deaths from AIDS will be considered an acceptable price of Political Correctness?

Insanity.


17 posted on 06/20/2016 4:41:55 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What’s your problem?

I almost received a contaminated Blood Transfusion, how about you?

Again, tell me how a worker at a Blood Donation Clinic knows a Client is Gay if the Client does not disclose it?


18 posted on 06/20/2016 4:43:24 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Scandals were Brains, Hillary would be the smartest person on the Planet.)
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To: Faith Presses On

Tell Arthur Ashe how discrimatory it is. That is if you could.


19 posted on 06/20/2016 4:43:49 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: freedumb2003

See the other story I just posted on it, in which experts say the blood ban will remain in effect for years:

“Blood supply experts say the FDA will need to determine whether the move to a one-year waiting period for gay and bisexual men made the blood supply less, more or just as safe.

“That effort will take several years, and only then would the agency be able to consider relaxing its restrictions further, said Brian Custer, who has led a number of studies on the nation’s blood supply and is associate director of the Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI) in San Francisco.

“Removing the waiting period altogether would also likely require a large-scale study that tested blood samples of people who would be banned under current criteria, said Dr. Michael Busch, a co-director of BSRI. Busch helped discover in the 1980s that HIV could be transmitted through blood transfusions.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3442123/posts


20 posted on 06/20/2016 4:44:06 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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