WASHINGTON – No longer will a male blood donor be asked if he has ever had sex with another male since 1977, nor will a female blood donor be asked if she has had sex with a male that had sex with another male in that same time frame, the Federal Drug Administration announced today.
Instead, the question asked of only of male blood donors will be if they've had similar sexual encounters within the past 12 months. If they haven't, they will be allowed to donate blood.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released final rules on Monday that would allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood if they have been celibate for one year. The agency says that the concerns associated with HIV transmission has diminished substantially since 1983.
“Ultimately, the 12-month deferral window is supported by the best available scientific evidence, at this point in time, relevant to the U.S. population. We will continue to actively conduct research in this area and further revise our policies as new data emerge," Dr. Peter Marks, deputy director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, wrote in a statement issued Monday.
Illinois Congressman Mike Quigley (IL-05) has been pushing for a new policy for some time.
“A time-based deferral focusing solely on men who have sex with men is still discriminatory and fails to exclude donors based on actual risk factors,” Quigley wrote in a statement last winter when the draft rules were issued.
of course if you are straight you can have sex 10 times a day with whores and give blood easily.
THIS POLICY IS NOT SAFER JUST STUPID.
Test all blood collected. PERIOD.
The FDA explains that “its policies to date have helped reduce HIV transmission rates from blood transfusions from 1 in 2,500 to 1 in 1.47 million.”
Yet they changed the rules for political correctness reasons… its despicable!
It is a medical fact that the practice of homosexuality promotes the spread of diseases at an increased rate compared to the practice of heterosexuality. If you don’t like or accept that fact, it’s just too bad. As the saying goes, you’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts. There is a logical argument to be made for restricting and discouraging homosexuality that is based solely upon medical science. And it should be vigorously pursued. The Obama administration should not be compromising the safety of our blood supply with this foolish rule change.
Now, if anyone needs a transfusion, he/she is in danger of contracting The Pox.
I’ll take my chances with the straight/whore blood.
You can do the gay blood – all yours tough guy.
Only if you lie on the release form.