Should blood banks be forced to accept the blood of teh ghey?

[EL PRESIDENTE]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...nating-blood/2012/04/16/gIQAT2a6LT_story.html

Raymond Robbins was ready to roll up his sleeve and give blood for the first time when a question asked of potential donors stopped him cold:

“From 1977 to the present, have you had sexual contact with another male, even once?”
“I answered yes, but I was caught off guard by the question,” said Robbins, 28, of Washington.

His answer got him turned away, stopped by a longstanding Food and Drug Administration policy that bans sexually active gay men from ever donating blood. The federal ban, now three decades old, has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years as HIV detection tests and procedures for screening donated blood have improved greatly and blood shortages have become common.

“It makes me feel like I’m placed in a negative category, like they are labeling me as diseased and decrepit,” said Robbins, who because of the ban has never tried to give blood since being rejected 10 years ago during high school. “The policy is very backward.”

But the FDA defends the ban, saying men who have sex with men are at a much higher-than-average risk of HIV and other infections that can be transmitted through transfusions. Although the FDA wouldn’t make officials available for an interview, the agency said in a statement that it’s trying to protect the public and is basing its policy on science, not “any judgment concerning the donor’s sexual orientation.”

 

[3RA1N1AC]

i hope i dont catch the gay, thats why i make guys wear condoms when they are fucking the shit out of my axe wound of an asshole

 

[3RA1N1AC]

"did you ever recieve a blood transfusion in the 80's?"

"yes"

"but you are 22 years old..."

"oohhh i thought you said a blood transfusion in haiti"

 

[julius]

i hope i dont catch the gay, thats why i make guys wear condoms when they are fucking the shit out of my axe wound of an asshole

wouldnt they be fucking the shit IN and not out of your ass? it's called fudge packing, not fudge removing.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

its kinda hard to explain, but i can show you

 

[julius]

its kinda hard to explain, but i can show you

is it bad that I'm getting turned on (because I was looking at porn..honest)?

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Wow. Did this thread ever nose dive fast.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Wow. Did this thread ever nose dive fast.

Why would you want to put your nose down there?!?