Posted on 11/28/2014 12:59:23 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That’s not creepy.
The likelihood of a false negative is high shortly after one has contracted HIV.
No it’s not. As was earlier mentioned. We should set up blood banks for those with HIV. How much can HIV blood hurt if you already have HIV anyways.
This is wrong, in every way possible.
The FDA might lift it, but I’m sure the Red Cross and other agencies will still be loathe to accept blood from men who are active homosexuals. Ryan White contracted AIDS from having received tainted blood in his treatments for hemophilia. Will the Red Cross and other agencies subject themselves to lawsuits in an effort to placate homosexual men?
And, people TRUST the FDA????
A few homosexuals believe there’s a cure for HIV that would be released if enough straight people would just contract HIV.
Since the blood supply is now screened for HIV antibodies & antigens, the chance of getting HIV from blood is very small. Blood would get more expensive because more unusable blood would have to be processed.
EXACTLY. If they don’t let people who lived in Europe during the 1980s give blood — I am BANNED FOR LIFE as are you — they shouldn’t take blood from people SOLELY BECAUSE THEY ENGAGE IN ANAL SEX.
I can’t speak for you, lol, but I wasn’t doing that when I lived in Switzerland. Do you realize, idiots, that people give blood in Germany and Switzerland, and they would accept our blood too??? Stupidest rule I ever heard.
I am not sure about germany but in Switzerland they do not import beef from the UK. Nor did I travel to the UK. Stupid.
Good! all the gay mens blood should be put aside for the FDA employees and thier families
...but if you sell raw milk we will kick down your door, shoot your dog and burn the motherf*cker down.
A bleeping men.
My Godson died of AIDS from a blood transfusion in San Francisco way back in 1984.
That says it all as far as I’m concerned.
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You guys answered my questions. Which was don’t they actually test the blood for diseases after it is donated?
Thankfully they do. I donate four or five times a year. Not just out of altruistic philanthropic concern for my fellow man but because I have high iron in my blood. The fact that it helps others as well Makes me feel good. There is something to be said for that and it does feel nice to help others.
But this is just a case of the squeaky wheel and the PC police screaming and yelling so much that they get their way.
When I saw that question as I was preparing for my first blood donation for years ago: “are you a man and have you ever had sex with a man even once”...
My first thought was this question will not last long in the PC activist world. It’s just a matter of time.
Why doesn’t the gay community build their own hospital where they can take pride in. They can build 57 hospitals, one in each State.
Then, I wonder how many gays would go to a gay hospital.
“It’s a little crazy that you can shed blood for your country, but you can’t donate blood to another human being,” he added.
Insanity.
Let them give their blood to each other.
If anyone gets infected as a result of this change in policy, the MSM will suppress the information. To add insult to injury, the infected person will be called a crazy homophobe.
“It’s a little crazy that you can shed blood for your country, but you can’t donate blood to another human being,” he added.
Does this jack of fools even know what it means to donate blood? Does he think it means putting it in a carryall for someone to take home and use later for garden fertilizer? Does he get it goes inside another person’s body?
Next up, screeches about right to privacy and intolerance of the sexually indiscriminate.
I’ll bet that a poll of gay men and women would show that the majority would not knowingly want blood from a gay male donor.
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