FOR FRAK'S SAKE THIS IS GOING TOO PEECEE FRAKKING FAR!!

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY IDIOTIC!

Idiot Extreme Liberals are fucking up this country one bit at a time!!

F*****s ruining it all even more!!

So, let me get this straight...you're not objecting to the FDA's decision to categorically refuse blood donations from gay men - which they've done for over a decade now - only to anyone's protesting this decision.

Hm. Morons on both sides.

People could die due to this sort of protest.

Get the latest findings, prove the restriction is outdated and lobby, lobby, lobby.

Don't stop all blood donations because of hurt feelings...health care should not be an area touched by PC or hate, IMO.

People have probably died because gay men and people with tattoos have been turned away from donation centers.

HUH?

^Why exactly did you post this article?

SAY WHAT?

BECAUSE I CAN JUST LIKE I CAN POST IN HUUUGE FARKING LETTERS!!

Oh, see, now here I was thinking maybe you had a purpose or a point to make. When will I learn?

And people have been saved by not getting blood borne diseases carried by high risk groups when those groups have been categorically denied access to donation.

Want to donate blood? Don't fuck a stranger at the bath house or get a tattoo.

From the article it looks like even if the restrictions were changed the tattoo thing would still apply since that is a 12 month restriction the same as they are proposing for sexual activity.

Donated blood goes through rigorous testing. The FDA ruling is legal CYA, nothing more.

And trust you to buy into the "all gay men frequent bath houses" stereotype.

There's a whole list of things that get people disqualified from giving blood. Certain medications, visiting certain countries overseas, living in certain overseas areas, certain organ transplants, and yes, even behavior based disqualifications exist. These cocksmokers are just upset that the Red Cross is more concerned with not getting contaminated blood than they are about being inclusive.

You can get Hepatitis among other things from getting a tattoo if the artist isn't as hygenic as you think they are.

And like it or not, gay men tend to catch stuff more easily...probably because it is not difficult to tear the anus and rectum and give infected semen a nice direct route to the bloodstream.

It isn't about hate...it's about risk factors.

F*****s....

Furries?

Fuzzies?

Furbies?

Flunkys?

Flowbys?

Yes, aware of all of that.

Make that "presumed behavior-based" disqualifications.

People who practice safe sex are low risk. That's the only question that needs to be asked there.

My, what a liberal-minded little pornographer you are.

So no to fag blood.

oops

Forbins?

Anyone who practices safe sex is low risk.

Anyone who engages in unprotected anal sex - anyone - is at risk.

That's the only question that needs to be asked.

This is true.

I'm prone to anemia and I also take Coumadin...I can't give blood.

And for perspective...the UK has the same restictions:

https://secure.blood.co.uk/vi_c11_cant.asp

Hateful Brits!

Gay men engage in high-risk sexual behavior. That is not a stereotype. It is overwhelmingly true for that particular demographic.

It takes about 3-4 weeks for a person who has become infected with HIV to seroconvert. "Seroconversion" is the point at which the virus becomes detectable in the blood. But an infected person can pass on the virus in semen or blood before seroconversion. And 3-4 weeks is only an average, which means that it can take a few days to seroconvert, or a few months.

The Red Cross has good reasons for using social criteria to pre-screen potential donors. I, personally, would hate to be on the receiving end of a blood transfusion from a non-seroconverted donor.

As civil rights go, gays should not be denied. But this is not a civil rights issue. It is a public health issue.

And yet people still get HIV, Hepatitis, and other nasties from blood transfusions on a regular basis.

There's multiple of him?

Good gawd, could you just imagine it?

An army of him, building a fleet of model Enterprises...a toxic cloud of model glue blotting the sun....

*Shiver*

In the U.S.?

Yep.

Seeing as I can't give blood anyway (inherited blood irregularity), I'm not exactly worried about this, on a personal level anyway.

I do think more research should be done to allow any safe donors who are willing and able to donate, just not at the risk of infection.

That seems to be the purpose of this protest. Possibly there might have been another way to go about it, but the inequities should be addressed.

So, we should make the system more complex and increase risk to "address inequities"?