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Livers for homosexuals but not for alcoholics.

How many people have been infected with AIDS by the 8 other homosexual recipients since their surgeries?

Which organ will fail next and have to be replaced as his AIDS progresses?

1 posted on 12/25/2001 4:04:31 PM PST by bayourod
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AIDS activist, author and playwright Larry Kramer underwent liver transplant
surgery and was listed in serious condition Monday.


This is the greatest affront to the beauty of the English Language and theater...
since Shakespeare died.
2 posted on 12/25/2001 4:08:53 PM PST by VOA
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This sort of thing is one of the reasons I'll never sign a 'blank check' organ donation document.

I wouldn't mind a family member or friend (or even a right-minded stranger) from getting some use out of body parts that I wasn't able to use anymore...

But I refuse to even risk being the one responsible for lengthening the life of some stinking liberal or pervert.

3 posted on 12/25/2001 4:20:23 PM PST by DWSUWF
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66 year old with HIV...what a waste of a liver!
5 posted on 12/25/2001 4:27:17 PM PST by Rain-maker
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I can see transplants if they get them from other AIDS donors but there's such a shortage of organs that letting someone die of liver disease who doesn't have AIDS so they can give this AIDS-free liver to someone with AIDS is wrong.
6 posted on 12/25/2001 4:29:41 PM PST by FITZ
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Which organ will fail next and have to be replaced as his AIDS progresses?

Apparently his kidneys, from the article on the operation in the Pittsburgh Tribune.

Story in Tribune

"This morning, Larry said to me, 'You know, this really is revolutionary. This is the next big story in AIDS treatment,'" said friend and caregiver Rodger McFarlane.

Mr. Kramer is the founder of ACT-UP.

7 posted on 12/25/2001 4:31:02 PM PST by welfareworker
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To: bayourod

Colon?

27 posted on 12/25/2001 6:45:19 PM PST by Jhoffa_
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To: VOA;bayourod;DWSUWF;RedBloodedAmerican;RAIN-MAKER;FITZ;WELFAREWORKER
Kramer's HIV has been relatively well controlled, but he suffered from end-stage liver failure caused by hepatitis B.

All of you have been ignoring this little detail. The reason his own liver is failing is that he has Hepatitis B.

This new donor liver by being implanted in this degenerate will become infected by Hep B and start to die. This transplant is totally immoral for this reason alone.

This mans life is being extended because of who he is, not because he is the best candidate for a very expensive transplant and a healthy donor organ in short supply.

30 posted on 12/25/2001 7:17:59 PM PST by Pontiac
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Here's an obituary published today (12-25-01) at Newsday.com. What is the connection between homosexuals and hepatitus, and what is the difference between hep B and hep C? Apparently, this Lance Loud didn't get a liver, or a new liver would not have helped.

Lance Loud

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lance Loud, a freelance journalist whose family was the subject of a television documentary series, died Saturday of complications from hepatitis C. He was 50.

He was part of "An American Family," the PBS series that was one of the first unscripted programs on mainstream television. The show focused on the family, who allowed filming of their daily lives for seven months in 1971. The 12-part series aired in 1973 and was considered a hit.

When he was 20 years old, Loud announced he was gay on the show, a public avowal that was unusual during the early 1970s. His decision drew widespread support from many gays.

After the series aired, Loud lived in New York for several years and performed in a rock band called the Mumps.

In 1981, he moved back to California, where he studied journalism. He often wrote articles for the Advocate, Details and Interview. He also had a few small television and film roles.

Whenever "An American Family" was rebroadcast, Lance returned to the spotlight. A one-hour sequel, "An American Family Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Later," appeared on HBO in 1983.

33 posted on 12/25/2001 7:43:18 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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"While many transplant centers oppose the surgery for HIV-positive patients, UPMC's Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute has performed 10 liver transplants on HIV-positive patients since 1997."

This is the madness of the whole AIDS scam. If you are tested positive for harmless antibodies to the HIV virus which itself has never been shown to cause immune suppression you are refused treatment for your REAL condition.

How many people would be alive today it they had been given treatment for actual conditions instead of so called AIDS.

AIDS is an invention of the gay AIDS charities and liberal media.

Read the truth at: - http://www.aidsRC.org

45 posted on 12/27/2001 1:26:07 PM PST by David Lane
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I have a friend who is trying to form a foundation for Liver research. She asked me for a theme song, and I found "Dr. Chordate", whose "Fifty Ways to Love Your Liver" is a landmark in music...

No news yet on whether the Foundation will adopt this song as its theme jingle.

--Boris

59 posted on 12/29/2001 12:13:04 AM PST by boris
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I wish him well.
153 posted on 12/30/2001 7:47:57 AM PST by Jack Barbara
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I can't decide if liver transplants for HIV-infected indiviuals is better or worse
than HIV-infected men in South Africa raping babies for a supposed cure.
192 posted on 12/30/2001 9:58:58 AM PST by Slyfox
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So I asks my wife, who is a professor of medicine, "Honey, are hepititis B patients normally eligible for liver transplants?"

Her, tentatively: "Yeah."

Me: "Even if they are HIV positive . . .?"

Her: "No."

Me: "And 66-years old?"

Her, emphatically: "Oh, God . . . NO!!!"

Whoever authorized this transplant should be sacked.

219 posted on 12/30/2001 1:39:15 PM PST by LibWhacker
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This proves if you have fame and money you can have what you want. I hope that the family of the doner never find out where their loved one's body parts now live!
354 posted on 05/10/2002 9:30:17 PM PDT by sitonit
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The man might be and probably is a card-carrying Democrat, but this "give me a new organ, I've burned out my own" attitude is a direct consequence of the libertarian mindset. The libertarian view is that this man's behavior harmed no one but himself--and the possibly all of his sexual partners.

So now we get to subsidize the cost to repair the rot.

Nothing libertarian about that. But then libertarians tend to be sensitive to the sound of liberty and deaf to the sound of external consequences. They really think their behavior imposes no costs on anyone but themselves.

At least when Democrats freeload they know someone else is picking up the tab.

358 posted on 05/13/2002 8:42:18 PM PDT by Kevin Curry
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