Students Protest Blood Drive Screening

Associated Press ^ | March 17, 2004

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Two student legislators at Western Oregon University have launched a drive to ban Red Cross blood drives on campus, claiming the donor screening process discriminates against gays.

The two students are particularly upset about a donor question that reads: "Are you a male who has had sex with another male since 1977, even once?"

The federal Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the Red Cross screening process, will not accept a donation from someone who answers 'yes' to the question, in order to help eliminate potentially HIV-tainted blood.

"By continuing to allow the Red Cross on our campus, the university is telling all the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students that we don't care about you," said student senator Shauna Bates, who is co-sponsoring the legislation.

If the resolution passes with a two-thirds majority vote of the senate's 14 members, no student-funded organization would be allowed to sponsor a blood drive. Current blood drives on campus, though, get their funding from the university's health services department.

A meeting on the topic Monday drew students and various health officials from the university and Red Cross opposing the move.

Student Molly Underwood said that matters of public health supersede those of discrimination.

"Just because somebody thinks something is unfair doesn't mean you should ban it," Underwood said. "Lives could be at stake."

[cherry]

"Perverts want their cake and eat it too,"

let's not go there......

[Dan from Michigan]

That belongs in the "Too much information" category.

[muggs]

I think they did away with the "do not use" sticker. The last few times I have donated there was no sticker.

Gays aren't discriminated against in donating. They can be as gay as they want as long as they haven't had sex with another male since 1977.

[mewzilla]

Awwww. Poor babies. I can't donate anymore, either. Too much time in Europe. Shall I scream discrimination and shove a pint of my blood down your throat, so to speak? Would you want it?

[Porterville]

Well its just Oregon, lot of fresh virgin timber that needs trimming- once we get rid of the hippies. They eat their own in those hippy towns in the North (not all are hippies I know)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I think they did away with the "do not use" sticker. The last few times I have donated there was no sticker.

I gave two weeks ago. They were using it then.

[muggs]

The Red Cross doesn't collect blood in the Cincinnati area. I donate through an organization called Hoxworth and they did away with the sticker several donations ago.

[Igraine]

The reason they do it this way is so that when offices etc. holds blood drives no one has to know that you are (for whatever reason) ineligible to give blood. Many companies put a lot of pressure on their employees and this gives those that really shouldn't be giving blood an "out" so that they can appear to give blood but don't really.

[Igraine]

If it makes you feel any better, Western Oregon State isn't exactly home Oregon's brightest academic lights.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping + The "Gaystapo" wants to murder people. I take back what I just said in my last comment (on another thread) that the Gaystapo don't murder people. I guess they want to start doing just that.

This really p***es me off. The fool who says that "discriminating" against "gays" means that the university doesn't care about them. Well, I guess the University, the Red Cross, and the gov't want them to not get AIDS from transfusions. In the homo-fascists' world view, white is black, black is white, and wanting someone not to get AIDS is not "caring" about them.

Freaking demons. I'm sorry for my harsh language, but this is it. They actually WANT innocent people who need blood transfusions to get AIDS.

What do you pinglist people think?

let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.

I'm seriously upset with this one.

[I got the rope]

Unbelievable...these people are evil. They should be banned from the campus.

[GATOR NAVY]

As I recall, there were questions about sex, overseas travel, body piercings, hepatitis, tattoos, a whole range of stuff.

Yep, all kinds of questions there. I couldn't give blood for many years because I kept going to areas where we had to take malaria prophylactics. I didn't feel discriminated against.

Blood Donation Eligibility Guidelines

[scripter]

The health hazards of the homosexual lifestyle over the years.

Category	Year	Title	Posted On FreeRepublic
Health Hazards
	2004	Students Protest Blood Drive Screening	Yes
		Gays' Use of Viagra and Methamphetamine Is Linked to Diseases	Yes
		Internet blamed in spread of syphilis among gays	Yes
		The Beast in the Bathhouse [It's Meth]	N/A
		HIV/AIDS Statistics (NIH)
		New study: homosexual men promiscuous	Yes
	2003	Exposing the facts of homosexuality	Yes
		Africa isn't dying of Aids	N/A
		Homosexuals admit AIDS culpability	Yes
		Myth and Reality about Homosexuality	N/A
		HIV/AIDS increases in US, but failed US approach still exported to Africa	N/A
		C-D-C says fight against H-I-V as urgent as it was 20 years ago	Yes
		U.S. Syphilis Rates Climbs for Second Consecutive Year	Yes
		Threat to Cuba's Aids success
		UCSF Study Finds Gay/Bisexual Men Who Were Sexually Abused (RAPED) as Children Are More Likely to Engage in Unsafe Sex	N/A
		Number of Russians with HIV jumps nearly 10-fold: official	Yes
		HIV cases in Britain reach 49,500 after record rise	Yes
		S.F. has nation's highest syphilis rate	Yes
		Syphilis increase sparks AIDS concerns	Yes
		World AIDS Day: Reflections on the Pandemic	Yes
		U.S. sees HIV cases rise among gay, bisexual men	Yes
		Unsafe healthcare "drives spread of African HIV"
		The American Journal of Public Health Highlights Risks of Homosexual Practices	Yes
		Syphilis Cases On The Rise In Bay Area	Yes
		Studies show gay men are more likely to take recreational drugs	Yes
		Sodomy: A Public Health Risk	Yes
		Rise of Internet Fuels Fears of AIDS Resurgence	N/A
		Researcher Warns of Homosexuals Seeking HIV Infection	Yes
		New Skin Infection Concerns Doctors, Activists	Yes
		Many HIV positive don't tell	N/A
		Kinsolving: "Will Bishop-elect Robinson and his male lover be tested for HIV-AIDS?"	Yes
		Homosexual AIDS Claims Cause Controversy	Yes
		Hazardous to Your Health - The Risks of Homosexuality	Yes
		Gay Men Meeting Online Contracting Syphilis Faster	N/A
		Cure for AIDS: Abstinence	Yes
		Acting Up	Yes
		Bug Chasers: The men who long to be HIV+	Yes
		Anal Sex Largest Cause of HIV in Africa	Yes
		African Women and AIDS	N/A
		African sexual health programmes "misguided"
	2002	Why Isn't Homosexuality Considered A Disorder On The Basis Of Its Medical Consequences?
		The Health Risks of Gay Sex
		Syphilis outbreak among L.A. gay men in 2002 leads to...
		Syphilis in gay men raises AIDS concern	N/A
		Just the Facts: AIDS & the Homosexual Lifestyle!
		Health and Homosexuality	Yes
		Desensitizing America, Part II: The AIDS Walk
		Desensitizing America, Part I: AIDS Sensitivity Training	N/A
		California to track HIV cases by code AIDS-delaying drugs mask disease's spread
	2001	Young gay, bisexual men still hard hit by AIDS	Yes
		With Fears Fading, More Gays Spurn Old Preventive Message	N/A
		U.S. HIV and AIDS cases reported through December 2000
		The Negative Health Effects of Homosexuality
		The Many Myths of AIDS
		SF doctors report "startling" increase of syphilis
		Is This Gay Behavior Sick?	N/A
		Gay health statistics	N/A
		Compassionate Society Should Discourage Deadly Homosexual Behavior	Yes
	2000	HIV infection and risk behaviours among young gay and bisexual men in Vancouver	Yes
		Sharing Disease is Not a Civil Right
		Scientific Evidence on Condom Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Prevention
		Homosexuals Demand Legalization of Sex With Strangers...	Yes
		Homosexual behavior increases risk of AIDS
		Anal Cancer and YOU
	1999	Medical Consequences of What Homosexuals Do
	1998	The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS: A Nine-Year Retrospective of Fear and (Mostly) Loathing	Yes
	1997	Modelling the Impact of HIV Disease on Mortality in Gay and Bisexual Men	Yes
		Modelling the Impact of HIV Disease on Mortality in Gay and Bisexual Men (Reprint)
		Anything But Gay: The Deadly and Dangerous Homosexual Lifestyle	Yes
	1992	Sexual Politics And Scientific Logic: The Issue Of Homosexuality

[SendShaqtoIraq]

"you also can't give blood if you take Propecia"

I have to ask. Why not?

[maryz]

Isn't Propecia the one that had the ads warning that pregnant women or women who could become pregnant shouldn't even touch a broken pill because it could cause birth defects?

[King Prout]

(completely unprintable reaction)

[John O]

What do you pinglist people think?

And so I pray:

God, Please save and change them, or kill them before they drag others into hell with them

Some of the SADs are merely mislead. Others are purely evil. The trouble is in how to tell the difference.

In more civilized times our society quarentined people with deadly contagious diseases. We should do so again. (SAD is a deadly contagious disease)

[Mr. K]

I don't understand why the Red Cross bothers with their silly question and answer screening process. I have read where the homonazis are told to lie and donate. Skip wasting my time with silly questions, take it from anyone who wants to give it, and test it all.

[Polybius]

They should collect two separate types of blood: screened and unscreened.

When these guys need blood, they can then be given the "unscreened" blood and the rest of us can choose the "screened" blood.

It would make a great Democrat Primary Debate question: "Senator, will you commit right now to be given non-discriminatory unscreened blood if you ever need a blood transfusion?"

"Well, ..ummm,...er,....cough,...sputter,...mumble, mumble...ahhh,....." :-)