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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

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To: reaganaut1

Next the homosexuals will challenge the 12-month restriction.

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Of course they will. In practice, the ban hasn’t changed at all.


121 posted on 12/23/2014 1:24:11 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: cripplecreek

Not that I would have a transfusion now.


122 posted on 12/23/2014 1:25:11 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Oliviaforever
As far as I know, the lifetime deferral for men who have sex with men is what prevents them. I suppose they could lie, as I could lie about not having a spleen.

If homosexual donations only would account for 1%, then obviously public health considerations are not what's driving this. Thanks for making that clear.

123 posted on 12/23/2014 1:25:26 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: antidisestablishment

My sister and her children can’t give blood because they once lived in Scotland.


124 posted on 12/23/2014 1:26:52 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Oliviaforever

I know that very well, from personal experience.


125 posted on 12/23/2014 1:27:21 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: GeronL

Yes, but many will die willingly in the name of PC.


126 posted on 12/23/2014 1:27:27 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: reaganaut1

The folks still have their heads up their anal exit passageways, and won’t hear about this. The media will deliberately and intentionally hide it from the public.
So there will be no outcry. P.S. why do you think the news was released today?


127 posted on 12/23/2014 1:34:30 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: MrB

Your question has been answered in prior posts, but I can see a movement growing up where people will have designated blood donations if they’ve not stored their own. I.e., church or other member groups will have drives, or lists of people in the various blood types who will donate to another member in that type as the need arises.

And I can see businesses grow up where they have only very highly tested blood that one can buy beyond the standard blood banks. People who will have alternatives available to them will not be accepting transfusions from the general pool of blood banks.


128 posted on 12/23/2014 1:34:49 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Truth29

I tried to give blood for my husband in the mid-90s, but they refused to take it. They said that they couldn’t because I was a relative, and they could only take blood from the Red Cross.


129 posted on 12/23/2014 1:35:22 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

That sounds like a rule for that specific facility or chain, maybe a contract with the Red Cross?


130 posted on 12/23/2014 1:43:44 PM PST by Truth29
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To: Truth29

I don’t know. I refused to allow them to give my husband blood. They weren’t happy.


131 posted on 12/23/2014 1:45:24 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: reaganaut1

Costs $150 a pint for blood.

Let’s see how much it goes up when the screening failures start.


132 posted on 12/23/2014 1:52:34 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: reaganaut1

Totally irresponsible. But I expected no less from this bunch.


133 posted on 12/23/2014 1:54:00 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: All

What has changed that originally forced the FDA to impose the restrictions?

Nothing.

They have put countless people at risk.


134 posted on 12/23/2014 1:55:47 PM PST by warsaw44
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To: reaganaut1

So now “Gay Rights” trump public safety. I think all those who belong to banned groups (Hello some U.S. veterans) should demand all bans be lifted. It will be interesting to see the FDA’s response.


135 posted on 12/23/2014 1:55:53 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: EDINVA

That would be a great idea, parallel to the Christian healthsharing ministries that escaped Obamacare requirements.

If we had Christian bloodbanks, you’d have a similar assurance of the lifestyle of the participants,
and subsequent reduced costs.

(Side note - obviously, the Christian/Jewish value system is inherently HEALTHIER and superior or these ministries wouldn’t be able to keep costs so low)


136 posted on 12/23/2014 1:56:11 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: reaganaut1

Well this is just great. I hope I never need blood. I don’t want an early death just because the government allows people with deadly STDs to donate blood.


137 posted on 12/23/2014 1:57:00 PM PST by wastedyears (I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
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To: GeronL

We’ll never know...because they won’t tell us...


138 posted on 12/23/2014 2:06:57 PM PST by unread (Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
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To: reaganaut1

Hunkey friggin’ dory.

Here comes the AIDS epidemic.

If I ever have a transfusion, I will demand a non-gay-friendly service.


139 posted on 12/23/2014 2:15:58 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Boner and McTurtle funded Amnesty and 0bamaCare)
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To: reaganaut1

I guess I won’t be planning any surgery in the near future.


140 posted on 12/23/2014 2:17:07 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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