That’s the question the federal government is considering this week as it re-evaluates whether it should lift the 30-year ban on homosexual blood donation.
The whole idea of Big Brother re-evaluating this issue at this point is what's scary. Nothing much has changed in the last thirty years with respect to scientific analysis regarding the increased risk of transmitting HIV (and other venereal diseases) through transfusions of blood donated by homosexual men. That's precisely the main reason male homosexuals, unless they are lying about their homosexuality, haven't been donating blood to blood banks for decades.
But what has changed is that the gay-pandering Obama Administration is in power. Let's hope that politics doesn't trump medical science here; if it does, it's another step toward tyranny.
BTW, I notice from the posted article that the Left has new term for homosexual men: MSM (men who have sex with men). So now "MSM" has two distinct meanings. Maybe they are trying to confuse us.
Alternatively if you think about it banning gay men from giving blood is one of the things that made it easier for progressives (and gays themselves) to convince Americans that gays are ‘just like us but born with different feelings’ and that giving them new rights like same sex marriage ‘hurts no-one’
Gays got married in a few states and no wave of horror stories came out.
The fact is that a person who is very much hated by homosexuals, because he figured the younger mortality rates of men who have sex with men as opposed to normal people, said the men having sex with men is preferable to the term homosexual because homosexual and gay implies an identity where men having sex with men describes a series of acts (many of them entirely nauseating). If they are called homosexuals, the men having sex with men can say they are gay men and they are being persecuted for their identity (say... such as black people). The people who practice the deadly perversion will say they are persecuted by bigots against their identity -- just as black people are. How the cultural communists happened upon the more correct terminology for these practitioners of a deadly perversion is unknown to me, however.
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“..The whole idea of Big Brother re-evaluating this issue at this point is what’s scary. Nothing much has changed in the last thirty years with respect to scientific analysis regarding the increased risk of transmitting HIV (and other venereal diseases)..”
I know a young man who needs blood transfusions regularly to remain healthy, and this politically-correct nonsense makes me want to cry.