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82 lawmakers ask for end to ban on gay men donating blood
The Hill ^ | 08/05/13 | Ramsey Cox

Posted on 08/05/2013 12:45:42 PM PDT by fwdude

More than 80 lawmakers have called on the Obama administration to allow gay men to donate blood.

The lawmakers say the administration should change what they say is an "outdated" policy.

Eighty-two lawmakers in the House and Senate signed on to the letter, including Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Enzi was the only Republican to sign the letter.

They said Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius should re-evaluate blood donation criteria that ban gay men from donating blood for life.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aids; blooddonation; corruption; democrats; disease; fdrq; filth; gaydisease; grids; hepatitis; hiv; homofascism; homofilth; homosexualagenda; pc; queer; queeringamerica
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To: fwdude

Well, there ya go! As soon as I posted that, someone reminded me that she’s “all-in” for the gay comyoonutty as well!!! Phhhht!!!


81 posted on 08/05/2013 1:38:58 PM PDT by SierraWasp (I pledge to the USSA & 2 the democrazy for witch it stands, a nation with liberalism & misery 4 all!)
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To: fwdude

Base the decision on science and public protection. Keep these idiots out of it. There was a % of infected blood for homes at one time, what is it now?


82 posted on 08/05/2013 1:41:10 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

THIS is exactly what’s wrong with “government-run” healthcare — politicians poking their noses into things they have no business being involved in.


83 posted on 08/05/2013 1:41:59 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: fwdude

Gaak! Inmates are running the asylum...


84 posted on 08/05/2013 1:45:49 PM PDT by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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To: brownsfan

Agreed. The next American Revolution should be more like the French Revolution...


85 posted on 08/05/2013 1:47:03 PM PDT by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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To: fwdude

Yeah, you’d expect usual suspects Portman and MurCOWski to be all aboard.


86 posted on 08/05/2013 1:48:07 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: DoughtyOne

DoughtyOne: “So now people will have to be subject to AIDS just so some folks won’t feel like they are mistreated? Really?”

In short, yes.


87 posted on 08/05/2013 1:48:27 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: Viennacon

Don’t we imprison people who attempt to stick people with HIV infected needles?


88 posted on 08/05/2013 1:48:56 PM PDT by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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To: fwdude

Ban gay men from donating blood for life.
I like the sound of logic.


89 posted on 08/05/2013 1:50:20 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: fwdude

As long as this blood is only used for these lawmakers and their families, I’m all for it.


90 posted on 08/05/2013 1:51:21 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: socal_parrot

My 40 year old brother died the same way.


91 posted on 08/05/2013 1:51:35 PM PDT by SweetCaroline (He is the Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son. 1-John 2:22)
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To: fwdude

They have lost their f-ing minds. From infection to detection their is a window of 2 to 8 weeks. During this period a donor can test negative but is infective. Click on link for info. This info is from the San Francisco Aids Society.

http://www.sfaf.org/hiv-info/testing/hiv-test-window-periods.html

This proposal will make our blood supply more dangerous.


92 posted on 08/05/2013 1:55:06 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: JT Hatter

Like you I`m a long term donor a bit over 15 gallons

including 70 something platelet donations and will also stop

if this proposal goes through.

Surely this insane idea goes nowhere.

I would love to see the list pf radicals who signed this.


93 posted on 08/05/2013 1:56:37 PM PDT by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: CitizenUSA

Agreed...


94 posted on 08/05/2013 2:00:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Kill the bill... Begin enforcing our current laws, signed by President Ronald Reagan.)
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To: GraceG

I still cant donate blood because I lived in Europe in the 80s and did Somalia in the 90s.


95 posted on 08/05/2013 2:01:30 PM PDT by SwankyC (Democrats and Republicans agree, govt coercion is OK if it fits your idea of whats OK)
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To: JT Hatter

I’d be Gallon Club except I was stationed in Germany in the 1980’s and later they decided that meant I was exposed to mad cow disease, so I can’t donate anymore. I keep going back to the Bloodmobile but that stupid rule hasn’t changed.

Meanwhile the AIDS faggies have their friends in Congress pushing for their right to contaminate the rest of us.

On a side note I read an article where a man walked out of Hardees eating a sausage biscuit and was accosted by a Muslim who berated him for eating pork. The man calmly reminded the muzzie that if he ever needed a blood transfusion that the vast majority of donors to the supply are pig-eating “infidels”.

The muzzie turned sickly green & ran off shrieking “Allah has put a seal on your heart!!”


96 posted on 08/05/2013 2:03:29 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: JT Hatter

Good point. To the leftists, everything is static. They don’t see the dynamic results of implementing their insane policies.


97 posted on 08/05/2013 2:09:36 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: VanDeKoik
the whole issue is silly, because you have to admit to them your gay.

If a gay wants to give blood, they simply will lie.

This wont change anything, it's just about making them feel good.

98 posted on 08/05/2013 2:11:14 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The point is that they will have to lie to donate, just like with the other prohibited groups. Even some homosexuals still have scruples. And the fewer who donate because of these scruples, the better.


99 posted on 08/05/2013 2:13:09 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

You can donate to your own private blood bank. I would advise this.


100 posted on 08/05/2013 2:15:42 PM PDT by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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