Posted on 07/26/2016 8:08:34 PM PDT by PROCON
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened the door on Tuesday to a change in its blood donor deferral recommendations, which currently prohibit donations from gay men for a year following their last sexual encounter in order to reduce the risk of transmitting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
In December the FDA overturned a 30-year ban on all blood donations from men who have sex with men, saying the change was based on science showing an indefinite ban was not necessary to prevent transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus.
The FDA is now signaling it may go further.
Gay rights advocates say the latest update did not go far enough and that the agency's recommendations should move closer to individual risk assessments, which could, for example, look at whether an individual has been in a monogamous relationship. Their criticism intensified in the wake of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June, which saw many gay men unable to donate blood even as blood banks put out calls for donors.
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BS, there is no real Science in this country anymore.
But, what could go wrong?
1,000 SEX PARTNERS
Science is you don’t know for at least a month.
Like our letting in refugees.
Public safety takes a back seat to PC.
The FDA leadership should all get blood transfusions from gay men and prove it.
Of course they won’t lie.
Homos want everyone else to get AIDS.
I swear these bastards in the government are trying to kill us all and restock the country with slaves with very little intelligence from foreign countries.
This is so idiotic. No one has a RIGHT to donate blood and put their blood into the blood supply to put into another person's body. They have the argument completely backward..."blood donors rights" - ridiculous - NO SUCH THING.
doesn’t the FDA require trials ?
As a trial, let the gays donate blood....to gays only.
I wonder how many refusals ?
I bet plenty will temporarily identify as straight to avoid being affected.
Think of a prostitute.
She has ten sex partners a night, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year for eons.
At a minimum that is 3,650 sex partners a year.
For ten years: 36,500 sex partners a year.
I won't EVEN go longer than ten years. Ugh.
Do the math. SHE makes homosexuals look like chaste nuns by comparison. She does it "for a living." Yeah, right.
She ends up hating it. Mr. Pimp gets her some drugs to make it less horrible. Then, she is an addict as well, getting porked, lying on her back, buck naked, legs up in the air, at the mercy of a total stranger, 3,650 times a year...at a minimum. Year after year after year until she "OD's" or the pimp beats her to death.
She makes some ahole pimp rich and gets THAT for herself.
Yeah, SHE makes the horny homosexuals look chaste.
She's MORE stupid that the horny homosexual men.
It’s simply open war on the public.
Terrorists...
The blood supply...
Our health care...
Our places of leisure and work now potential execution points...
Our elected officials are systematically implementing policies to kill us.
I guess that prostitutes and sexually active homosexual men aren’t practicing Christians.
BTW, LJ, what happened to the Homosexual agenda ping lists?
Yay!
The Federal Government is going to taint/poison the whole blood supply! :)
Completely predictable, it’s just another component in the ‘Fundamental Transformation of America’ Obummer threatened and was allowed to do.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses might be on to something.
They are in bed with ‘big pharma’. More cooties......more meds.....more $$$$.
Yes. I’m THAT cynical and jaded.
Make it federal law to donate blood that infects someone with a deadly pathogen, intentional or not.
All blood units are tracked.
Start tossing AIDS donors in jail and you’ll have a death toll tally you can rub their noses in.
Just like how we know illegal immigrants kill 3000 Americans each year.
Just 5~10 cc for each one, They won't feel a thing!
Show how it works.
Might as well quit donating blood if they do this.
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