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F.D.A. Lifting Ban on Gay Blood Donors
New York Times ^ | December 23, 2014 | SABRINA TAVERNISE

Posted on 12/23/2014 11:05:08 AM PST by reaganaut1

The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it would scrap a decades-old lifetime prohibition on blood donation by gay and bisexual men, a change that experts said was long overdue and could lift the annual blood supply by as much as 4 percent.

The F.D.A. enacted the ban in 1983, early in the AIDS epidemic. At the time, little was known about the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes the disease, and there was no quick test to determine whether somebody had it. But science — and the understanding of H.I.V. in particular — has advanced in the intervening decades, and on Tuesday the F.D.A. acknowledged as much, lifting the lifetime ban but keeping in place a more modest block on donations by men who have had sex with other men in the last 12 months.

In a statement, the agency said it had “carefully examined and considered the scientific evidence” before changing the policy. It said it intended to issue a draft guidance detailing the change in 2015.

The shift puts the United States on par with European countries like Britain, which adjusted its lifetime ban in favor of a 12-month restriction in 2011. Men’s health advocates welcomed the move, saying that the ban was not based on the latest science and that it perpetuated stigma about gay men as a risk to the health of the nation. [...]

“This is a major victory for gay civil rights,” said I. Glenn Cohen, a law professor at Harvard University who specializes in bioethics and health. “We’re leaving behind the old view that every gay man is a potential infection source." He said, however, that the policy was “still not rational enough."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: aids; aidscrisis; blood; blooddonors; fda; gayblood; homofascism; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; obamalegacy
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To: reaganaut1

why don’t we just all inject ourselves directly with HIV.

the destruction of America by the left goes on unabated.


141 posted on 12/23/2014 2:18:15 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: reaganaut1

This sounds like a terrible idea to me, then again I am told I am a homophobic, so maybe that`s it.

I did not know that I was a homophobic or that I hated my father.


142 posted on 12/23/2014 2:31:58 PM PST by Chauncey Uppercrust
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To: Oliviaforever

Hmm. Don’t they already cover for the blood donors of contaminated blood? Now this was 7 years ago, but I suspect they still do it.

They said it’s so an employer doesn’t know whether you have allowed or contaminated blood. I guess some employers expect everyone to donate blood. They draw the blood from everyone and mark all the packages in such a way that they know the good from the bad, afterwards. But none of your co-workers or bosses know.

Can’t they do this with the HIV questionable blood drawn?


143 posted on 12/23/2014 2:33:35 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: reaganaut1

What’s to prevent a person who has chosen a homosexual lifestyle from just lying? I imagine legal consequences keep away some liars.

I am curious if blood banks can turn away homosexuals on their own initiative and what procedures they could have in place to detect liars.

If blood banks have legal authority to make their own decisions, I see a business opportunity.


144 posted on 12/23/2014 2:34:59 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: reaganaut1

Morons. Next up: a market for non-homosexual blood. Prices will soar.


145 posted on 12/23/2014 2:38:28 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: relictele
“We’re leaving behind the old view that every gay man is a potential infection source."

Sigh. No, they're the HEALTHIEST people in our society. We really really have a death wish in the West.

146 posted on 12/23/2014 2:40:59 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

As more than one person has said:

Label the blood with the donor and his sexual orientation.

The gay blood will go unused by all, including gay men, until doomsday.


147 posted on 12/23/2014 2:43:03 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: reaganaut1

This is a major victory for gay civil rights,” said I. Glenn Cohen, a law professor at Harvard University who specializes in bioethics and health. “We’re leaving behind the old view that every gay man is a potential infection source.” He said, however, that the policy was “still not rational enough.”

It’s irrational. There is no civil rights issue involved. There is a big public health issue, and as usual, stupidity rules.


148 posted on 12/23/2014 2:49:28 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

I have been rethinking of blood use. Impoverished areas have blood selling storefronts. You cannot believe what diseases there can be in blood.


149 posted on 12/23/2014 2:53:49 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: reaganaut1

Yet one more reason to steer clear of Ductors.

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150 posted on 12/23/2014 2:57:34 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
homo-loathe, most of them have to look it up...
151 posted on 12/23/2014 3:04:51 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Morgana
filthy disease ridden queers
152 posted on 12/23/2014 3:05:39 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Darksheare

Quite true!! Sad and disgusting.


153 posted on 12/23/2014 3:07:06 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: petro45acp
There are NO cures on the horizon, only treatments...treatments that garner huge amounts of long term cash. Thanks to the FDA...

I know...this is not medicine. This is greed. Plus, how effective for reducing population like the commies & socialists desire?

154 posted on 12/23/2014 3:10:45 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: reaganaut1

no rule about only gay recepients?


155 posted on 12/23/2014 3:15:34 PM PST by isom35
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To: reaganaut1
There has never been a ban on 'gay' blood donors. This is as much a decision of sheer lunacy as it is continued promotion of homofascist propaganda. Ban have always been on those who participated in certain unhealthy activities or those with known unhealthy blood.

This FDA like all the departments and agencies that Obama intimidates is not serving the public anymore, it's serving the the fascist left.

156 posted on 12/23/2014 3:45:34 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: reaganaut1

Anyone who gets AIDS as a result of this change will sue.


157 posted on 12/23/2014 3:51:15 PM PST by RginTN
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To: reaganaut1

Will Obama and Holder be the first in line to donate? Just speculatin’!


158 posted on 12/23/2014 4:10:03 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: reaganaut1

Why do I think of that song from Team America?

“AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, everybody has AIDS, AIDS, AIDS.

My grandma has AIDS, my mother has AIDS, my father has AIDS.

AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, everybody has AIDS, AIDS, AIDS.”


159 posted on 12/23/2014 4:13:50 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: reaganaut1

Is there currently testing of all blood that identifies “bad” blood?


160 posted on 12/23/2014 4:32:44 PM PST by goodnesswins (2015)
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