FDA to lift Ban on Gay blood donations

[Zygarde]

Oh happy day, here's a quote from the article

The US Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will move to ease a lifetime ban on blood donations from homosexual men, allowing them to give after a year of abstaining from sexual activity.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/fda-to-lift-lifetime-ban-on-blood-donations-from-gay-men/

While it's not perfect since they have to go a year without sex, it's still progress in my book.

[Ultimate Paragon]

Still, progress is progress.

[dpareja]

Cue fundies suddenly finding Bible verses interpreted to mean that blood transfusions are evil.

[ironbite]

So you mean Jehovah Witnesses?

Ironbite-who have been on that kick for centuries now?

[Ultimate Paragon]

Cue fundies suddenly finding Bible verses interpreted to mean that blood transfusions are evil.

So you mean Jehovah Witnesses?

Ironbite-who have been on that kick for centuries now?

Beat me to it.   

[R. U. Sirius]

Or demanding that hospitals make sure not to give them any homo blood, the way racists will sometimes demand that they only get blood from their own race.

[dpareja]

So you mean Jehovah Witnesses?

Ironbite-who have been on that kick for centuries now?

Yeah, but now it won't just be them.

Or demanding that hospitals make sure not to give them any homo blood, the way racists will sometimes demand that they only get blood from their own race.

And I can definitely see this.

[Askold]

Finland has the same deal on blood donations.

On one hand it is still really strict, but this isn't the only harsh restriction the Red cross has, anyone who spent time in Britain during the mad cow disease is banned from donating blood for life, on the other hand I think that one year waiting period is unnecessarily long. Most diseases would show up in exams much sooner.

[RavynousHunter]

Or demanding that hospitals make sure not to give them any homo blood, the way racists will sometimes demand that they only get blood from their own race.

Well, those are likely the same people that are afraid that GMO crops are going to sterilize them or some shit.  After all, the government clearly wants to kill us all.

[guizonde]

Finland has the same deal on blood donations.

On one hand it is still really strict, but this isn't the only harsh restriction the Red cross has, anyone who spent time in Britain during the mad cow disease is banned from donating blood for life, on the other hand I think that one year waiting period is unnecessarily long. Most diseases would show up in exams much sooner.

i can't give blood outside the uk for that reason... and i thought it was just because the french hated the british... logic fail?

[Canadian Mojo]

Or demanding that hospitals make sure not to give them any homo blood, the way racists will sometimes demand that they only get blood from their own race.

Well, those are likely the same people that are afraid that GMO crops are going to sterilize them or some shit.  After all, the government clearly wants to kill us all.

The worst thing is I can see an awesome business opportunity here: set up a private blood bank and only use white heterosexual donors and sell it for a stupidly marked up price under the brand name Good Blood. You could even set up special insurance riders and the like.

(Then there are the trolling possibilities: set the same thing up for conflicting demographics, max and match while you make you money, flee to an extradition free location and spill the beans on national news while sitting on a pile of cash sipping mai-tais surrounded by naked men and/or women)

[Random Gal]

I still maintain that the restricting factor should be anal sex, not male homosexuality. Anal sex is the actual risk factor in HIV transmission, and using male homosexuality instead both allows risky donations by straight people who do anal and unjustly punishes gay men who don't do anal.

[Old Viking]

Imagine inadvertently becoming a gay black man.  How long would it take to reconstruct your social life?

[RavynousHunter]

Imagine inadvertently becoming a gay black man.  How long would it take to reconstruct your social life?

That would be impossible, you'd probably be shot on the spot.

[Art Vandelay]

Imagine inadvertently becoming a gay black man.  How long would it take to reconstruct your social life?

Yeah, I hate it when that happens.