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Feds review plan to let homosexuals donate blood
Homosexual activists, with support from the blood banking community, appear to be winning their campaign to scrap the three-decade-old FDA rule barring men who have sex with other men (MSM) from donating blood.
The FDA’s Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability recommended, in a 16-2 vote last month, that the FDA abandon its current policy and allow men who have sex with men to donate blood if they say they have had no sexual contact with a man for one year.
Another FDA panel, the Blood Products Advisory Committee, meets Tuesday to weigh in on the
disputed policy. The FDA has not announced when it will announce any change to the ban on blood from MSM, first implemented in 1985 after tens of thousands of blood transfusion recipients became infected from contaminated blood. The hemophiliac community was especially hard hit in the 1980s, with more than 10,000 people infected with HIV or Hepatitis C, and many dying as a result.
“Over 50 percent of the people with hemophilia were infected with HIV and 90 percent were infected with Hepatitis C,” said John Indence, vice president for marketing and communications at the National Hemophilia Foundation.
“We are completely for anything that will increase the safety of the blood supply here in the United States,” Indence said. “We just believe that it needs to be based on science and not a political decision.”
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Americans for Truth president Peter LaBarbera called it “just absurd to say that we should all be treated equally” when it comes to donating blood. Homosexual practice, he said, is “really in a league all by itself as far as risks and promiscuity go.”
Anal sex and anal-oral contact – which can include a practice known as “rimming,” in which one man inserts his tongue into the anus of another man – is highly efficient to transmit disease. “It’s almost as if sodomy was created to spread disease,” said LaBarbera.
Feds review plan to let homosexuals donate blood
Politics play role as population has much higher incidence of AIDS, Hepatitis C infections
Homosexual activists, with support from the blood banking community, appear to be winning their campaign to scrap the three-decade-old FDA rule barring men who have sex with other men (MSM) from donating blood.
The FDA’s Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability recommended, in a 16-2 vote last month, that the FDA abandon its current policy and allow men who have sex with men to donate blood if they say they have had no sexual contact with a man for one year.
Another FDA panel, the Blood Products Advisory Committee, meets Tuesday to weigh in on the
disputed policy. The FDA has not announced when it will announce any change to the ban on blood from MSM, first implemented in 1985 after tens of thousands of blood transfusion recipients became infected from contaminated blood. The hemophiliac community was especially hard hit in the 1980s, with more than 10,000 people infected with HIV or Hepatitis C, and many dying as a result.
“Over 50 percent of the people with hemophilia were infected with HIV and 90 percent were infected with Hepatitis C,” said John Indence, vice president for marketing and communications at the National Hemophilia Foundation.
“We are completely for anything that will increase the safety of the blood supply here in the United States,” Indence said. “We just believe that it needs to be based on science and not a political decision.”
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Americans for Truth president Peter LaBarbera called it “just absurd to say that we should all be treated equally” when it comes to donating blood. Homosexual practice, he said, is “really in a league all by itself as far as risks and promiscuity go.”
Anal sex and anal-oral contact – which can include a practice known as “rimming,” in which one man inserts his tongue into the anus of another man – is highly efficient to transmit disease. “It’s almost as if sodomy was created to spread disease,” said LaBarbera.