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New blood donation rules would still exclude many gay men
NPR.org ^ | 12/24/2014 | Steven W. Thrasher

Posted on 12/25/2014 8:38:39 AM PST by NetAddicted

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To: NetAddicted
there is good reason to impose donation restrictions on populations who engage in certain risky practices.

Do not donate if any of the following apply to you:...
If you are U.S. Military / Dependent / Civilian Military Employee who spent a cumulative of six months or more between 1980 thru 1996 associated with a military base in Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Italy or Greece, and/or 1980 thru 1990 in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany.

41 posted on 12/25/2014 12:53:19 PM PST by glorgau
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To: G Larry

then I would say no to the changes.


42 posted on 12/25/2014 1:50:03 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The last sentence of your post pretty well says it all.

And this ban being lifted is ridiculous.

I have never given much thought to homosexuality. I guess I’ve always thought that it is between them and God when the time comes. But as their push to gain “applause” has increased...my stance has changed.


43 posted on 12/25/2014 2:03:12 PM PST by berdie
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To: twister881

A good friend of mine died of AIDS in 1996 at age 47. He had come out of the lifestyle many years before and lived his final years in prayer and penance. The cause of his orientation was so typical and he knew it. His Dad and Mom divorced when he was young. He hated his Dad for not being in the home and considered himself to be abandoned by him. His mother remarried but he hated his stepfather because he would not accept him as his “real father”. Also, his relationship with his mother was a bit too clingy. What a lie when people say others are born gay. It’s an attack on the importance of fatherhood and the family.


44 posted on 12/25/2014 8:27:06 PM PST by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: NetAddicted
There is no science — none — that suggests that, if a man had sex with another man in 1978, you couldn't take his blood and safely screen it for HIV.

This degenerate idiot doesn't get the point.

What "gay" man has sex only once? It's an indisputable fact that rank promiscuity is an indispensable theme of "gay" culture - if you did it once, you've likely done it hundreds, if not thousands of times, with almost as many men. Even this moron author admits that he doesn't qualify for this type of once-and-done mythical creature.

45 posted on 12/26/2014 5:25:44 AM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: headstamp 2

Until real consequences are enforced for lying on these questionnaires, the honor system will just be a very weak initial screening. We need to have FELONY charges brought against these domestic terrorists who would threaten the national blood supply by lying about not being in a high risk group. Many donations of blood test positive for HIV, in fact, many homosexuals use donation as a “testing source” to determine their disease status, since the notification is confidential and they get to appear normal by donating blood in the process.

I think any positive test for HIV at blood donation sites should initiate an investigation. The individual should be detained for biological terrorism and his lifestyle should be investigated, including cash and credit card transactions. If found to be an active homosexual, 5 years minimum should be the sentence.


46 posted on 12/26/2014 6:07:06 AM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: NetAddicted

How does the blood collector know if the donor is Queer?

How many Queers donate blood any way?

The only certainty is to test all blood for HIV and other rejectable conditions.


47 posted on 12/26/2014 6:09:45 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: NetAddicted
This is a deceitful essay meant to appear even handed in order to soften public sentiment toward this new policy. In three years after this policy is implemented, expect this same author to develop political amnesia and vociferously attack every point that he made supporting the one-year deferral policy.
48 posted on 12/26/2014 6:11:36 AM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: morphing libertarian

They are. However, there still is a possibility of a false negative, which is why many groups of people are banned by risk, not by test.


49 posted on 12/28/2014 10:42:44 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: MDLION

The worst part is the idea that out of control intimacy is inseparable from the same gender attraction. This is not entirely true, and it is hurtful.


50 posted on 12/28/2014 10:46:37 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: FlingWingFlyer

IDK, but tptb, seem to want people fighting and tearing each other up.


51 posted on 12/28/2014 10:48:40 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: NetAddicted

And that is just HIV, and there are outliers.


52 posted on 12/28/2014 11:03:50 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Morpheus2009

Thanx


53 posted on 12/28/2014 1:41:23 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: Morpheus2009

What does outliers mean here?


54 posted on 12/28/2014 9:52:50 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

There are people who do test false negative for months after the initial infection for Hepatitis or HIV. As in test negative, but they are infected and contagious.


55 posted on 12/29/2014 9:52:55 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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