FDA to recommend end of ban on blood donations from gay/bisexual men

[user12345]

@AP: BREAKING: FDA to recommend end of ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men; restrictions remain.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Good news! And better late than never.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

About time!

[Landslide Lyndon]

Who wants to bet that Republicans will throw a hissy fit about that too?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I didn't know there was a ban, but it's good to see it go.

[user12345]

Still isn't a fair plan IMO. They have to have no had sexual contact within the last year to be able to donate.

[The_Doctor]

Still isn't a fair plan IMO. They have to have no had sexual contact within the last year to be able to donate.

The recent prevalence of HIV has been highest among gay and bisexual men -- half to more of the cases of HIV have been among this demographic. It doesn't show up in your blood system until 6 weeks after, and 3 months definitively. It's a precaution, although it does sound unfair. (Instant testing could go a long way).

[Hifly]

So is giving blood now a 'human right' according to the liberals?
I'm going to guess a one year ban will thankfully remain in place.

Do some of you not realise that there are serious medical and epidemiological reasons why a ban is in place?
And no, it's not because the Government hates gays.

[Lief 🗽]

You gotta feel for the lazy, irresponsible gay dudes. They had a pretty good thing going before "equality" ruined it all for them. Easy excuses for not getting married, not donating blood... now they have no excuse.

[Хahar 🤔]

What if I catch the gay?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

What if I catch the gay?

RIP LIL sh**t KID, XAHAR. 

[Hifly]

What if I catch the gay?

You do understand the actual issue here, right? Or are you just trolling?

[RR1997]

Great news! Made my day.

[CountryClassSF]

It is a precaution but it is also discrimination. I would imagine that all blood is tested before it is transferred to another person anyway via transfusion ??

Save more lives, not less.  I support the move.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Good news! And better late than never.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Homosexuals infecting muh blood bags with the AIDS syrup!!!!

[Ebowed]

It is a precaution but it is also discrimination. I would imagine that all blood is tested before it is transferred to another person anyway via transfusion ??

Save more lives, not less.  I support the move.

Correct.

[ElectionsGuy]

I never even knew this existed. Well, good to know much of the inherent anti-gayness (lol) in society is waring away.

[Gustaf]

I understand the issue with AIDS being more prevalent in the gay community. What I never understood with this ban is that if whatever mechanism they use on straight donators wouldn't work to prevent infected blood from gay people then it wouldn't work in the status quo for straight people either. Which then in turn sounds pretty scary.

[IceSpear]

This is clearly a secret plot of the Homosex agenda to spread AIDS. BENGHAZI!

[Cory]

It is a precaution but it is also discrimination. I would imagine that all blood is tested before it is transferred to another person anyway via transfusion ??

Save more lives, not less.  I support the move.

Correct.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Its a year of remaining asexual before being allowed to do it. I mean its a start but its pretty much saying 'don't do sex' which is incredibly stupid.

[Joe Republic]

So is giving blood now a 'human right' according to the liberals?
I'm going to guess a one year ban will thankfully remain in place.

Do some of you not realise that there are serious medical and epidemiological reasons why a ban is in place?
And no, it's not because the Government hates gays.

Exactly!!  Everybody knows that only gay people can have and spread HIV/AIDS, and the assumption that they all must have it is totally fair.

[Landslide Lyndon]

So is giving blood now a 'human right' according to the liberals?
I'm going to guess a one year ban will thankfully remain in place.

Do some of you not realise that there are serious medical and epidemiological reasons why a ban is in place?
And no, it's not because the Government hates gays.

Exactly!!  Everybody knows that only gay people can have and spread HIV/AIDS, and the assumption that they all must have it is totally fair.

That reminds me of this.

Barack Obama was snorting cocaine as an adult yet Mitt Romney is being attacked for something that may or may not have happened? And if this John Lauber was really a homosexual, he'd probably be dead by now given what happened to most homosexuals his age in the '80s and '90s (e.g., Freddie Mercury, Liberace, Rock Hudson, etc.)

[TDAS04]

Good news! And better late than never.