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FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« on: December 27, 2014, 08:22:26 pm »


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FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
 
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday plans to remove the long-standing prohibition on blood donations from gay men.

As a result of consistent pressure from gay rights advocacy groups, the FDA has spent the past few years reviewing the scientific literature relating to gay men donating blood. After consultations with the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability, the FDA has agreed that a change is needed. Soon, instead of facing a permanent deferral, gay men who abstain from sex with other men for a year will be able to donate blood.

In the meantime, the FDA is working with the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to implement a massive blood surveillance system nationwide, in order to determine the effects of the new policy change after it’s put in place. However, the proposed change is not yet finalized. In 2015, the FDA will release draft guidance advocating for the new regulation. There will be a period where the public and all relevant stakeholders can comment.

A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that in 2010, 63% of new HIV infections in the United States came from men who have sex with other men. However, the American Medical Association (AMA) and other groups still think that the blood ban is based on unwarranted science. The AMA voted in 2013 to kill the ban.

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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2014, 10:19:44 pm »
Just another thing to be wound up and resentful over. Don't forget about white trash meth cookers, that get Hep C.

The system requires thorough testing of blood supplies, from whatev er the source may be.

The Hep C carrying drug user is probably the most prone to lie about it.
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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2014, 10:42:25 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on December 27, 2014, 10:19:44 pm
The Hep C carrying drug user is probably the most prone to lie about it.

The HIV+ rump-ranger is probably the most prone to donate and lie about it...

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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2014, 10:55:30 pm »
Quote from: GourmetDan on December 27, 2014, 10:42:25 pm
The HIV+ rump-ranger is probably the most prone to donate and lie about it...

Probably the most prone to lie about it would be the closeted, occasional White Owl-smoking rump ranger with a wife and kids who brags (too loudly) about his masculinity and likes to call homosexuals derogatory names. 
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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2014, 12:54:09 am »
Quote from: Luis Gonzalez on December 27, 2014, 10:55:30 pm
Probably the most prone to lie about it would be the closeted, occasional White Owl-smoking rump ranger with a wife and kids who brags (too loudly) about his masculinity and likes to call homosexuals derogatory names. 

quite so
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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2014, 03:08:43 am »
Quote from: Luis Gonzalez on December 27, 2014, 10:55:30 pm
Probably the most prone to lie about it would be the closeted, occasional White Owl-smoking rump ranger with a wife and kids who brags (too loudly) about his masculinity and likes to call homosexuals derogatory names.

Nah, the clean, risk-free people would be the ones most likely to donate good, wholesome, risk-free blood over decades that could be received by any recipient that needed it.

They wouldn't need the FDA to make an exception for them to donate...

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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2014, 03:17:30 am »
Quote from: Oceander on December 28, 2014, 12:54:09 am
quite so

Don't think people don't see which posters support the rump-rangers and which ones support the clean-living posters who live righteous lives that don't need government exceptions to do the right thing...


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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2014, 06:46:14 am »
The homofacists would love to spread HIV to the heterosexual population because in their mind, once it affects the majority, there will be more funds to find a cure/vaccine.

They already wiped out nearly all hemophiliacs in the world in the 1980s, now they're going to see how many more innocents they can murder.
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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2014, 07:36:58 am »
Quote from: Atomic Cow on December 28, 2014, 06:46:14 am
The homofacists would love to spread HIV to the heterosexual population because in their mind, once it affects the majority, there will be more funds to find a cure/vaccine.

They already wiped out nearly all hemophiliacs in the world in the 1980s, now they're going to see how many more innocents they can murder.

Right now, HIV/AIDS is primarily a heterosexual disease in the world. It began in Africa (where it has always been primarily a heterosexual disease) and the generally accepted theory is that it a descendant of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) and that it entered into the human disease pool as chimpanzees were hunted and consumed for food, then spread as a result of poor hygiene in the use of needles for immunizations as well as unprotected sex.

It is thought that the virus spread from Africa to Haiti then to the US. Many of the first known cases of AIDS in the US were Haitian immigrants. It is believed that the virus traveled from the former Zaire to Haiti in 1966 via a wave of Haitian professionals returning home during some political turbulence in what is now The Democratic Republic of the Congo, then on to the US via Haitian immigrants.

Since the US maintains greater hygienic standards in vaccinations and medical equipment overall than both Africa and Haiti, the disease spread primarily among intravenous drug users and people who engaged in unprotected sex where bleeding may occur. I remember distinctly the news of the time discussing the fact that at the time that the disease was identified, Haitian immigrants made up a significant portion of the high-risk group for infection.

Do some reading outside FR.
 
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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2014, 02:48:20 pm »
They test the blood for viruses before they give it to people. It's not like unsuspecting people are going to get aids because gay people are donating. This change is overdue and I welcome it.
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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2014, 09:24:01 pm »
Quote from: Dex4974 on December 28, 2014, 02:48:20 pm
They test the blood for viruses before they give it to people. It's not like unsuspecting people are going to get aids because gay people are donating. This change is overdue and I welcome it.

Of course you do since you support anything the left does.
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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2014, 09:27:21 pm »
Gay people give blood now, they just lie about it on the paperwork. (many do it out of protest, others simply because they think it is the responsible thing to do).

All blood goes through the same screening. I don't recall a story about an accidental infection of HIV in the US since the 80s. On the other hand, how many millions have been saved from donated blood?
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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2014, 09:48:47 pm »
Quote from: Atomic Cow on December 28, 2014, 09:24:01 pm
Of course you do since you support anything the left does.

Everything in life isn't a left/right thing.
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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #13 on: December 29, 2014, 12:33:17 am »
Quote from: AbaraXas on December 28, 2014, 09:27:21 pm
Gay people give blood now, they just lie about it on the paperwork. (many do it out of protest, others simply because they think it is the responsible thing to do).

All blood goes through the same screening. I don't recall a story about an accidental infection of HIV in the US since the 80s. On the other hand, how many millions have been saved from donated blood?

It is perverted thinking to remove prohibitions on donations from a disease-ridden group because they lie about it and do it anyway.  This shows the depravity of both the group itself and those who support them.

There are also prohibitions against IV-drug users and people who lived in Britain during the mad-cow outbreak.  The same thought-process promoted toward homosexuals should then likewise be applied to all classes of blood-donors currently prohibited.

To claim that the success of the prohibitions in preventing blood-based infections is evidence for eliminating them for one PC-group is simply stupidity...

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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #14 on: December 29, 2014, 12:43:15 am »
I agree 100% with GourmetDan. This is a stupid move.



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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #15 on: December 29, 2014, 12:49:31 am »
Quote from: AbaraXas on December 28, 2014, 09:27:21 pm
Gay people give blood now, they just lie about it on the paperwork. (many do it out of protest, others simply because they think it is the responsible thing to do).

All blood goes through the same screening. I don't recall a story about an accidental infection of HIV in the US since the 80s. On the other hand, how many millions have been saved from donated blood?


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Re: FDA Intends To Allow Homosexual Men To Donate Blood
« Reply #16 on: December 29, 2014, 01:45:46 am »
Quote from: GourmetDan on December 28, 2014, 03:08:43 am
Nah, the clean, risk-free people would be the ones most likely to donate good, wholesome, risk-free blood over decades that could be received by any recipient that needed it.

They wouldn't need the FDA to make an exception for them to donate...

Actually, drug users donate blood and "other" bodily fluids pretty often.  It helps finance their addictions.  You'd be surprised how "clean" some addicts look.
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