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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
FDA Ends Across-The-Board Ban On Blood Donations From Gay, Bisexual Men
Exactly a year ago this week, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it was going to eventually change its guidance on blood donations that had barred any man who had been intimate with another male at any time in the previous three decades from donating. Today, the FDA finalized that change, which still requires that all male donors abstain from same-sex intimacy for a year before donating.
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I can only hope they still screen the blood for HIV and Hepatitis!
Hope and pray I will never need to have a transfusion!
Time for families to step up and donate blood, PC bull crap will end up killing us all.
Gays can give Blood. And Veterans that served overseas during 1980 thru 1986 (Approx) cannot, because of Mad Cow disease. If we had Mad Cow, don't you think we be dead by now.
Political correctness is more important to Democrats than your health and safety.
827 anyone that was in Western Europe during that time period cannot.
I am done with going in there to give blood or get blood from them....
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