Support the end of government sanctioned discrimination! - Help Change the FDA's current Policy!
The FDA currently has a policy that states “Men who have had sex with other men, at any time since 1977 are currently deferred as blood donors.” This means that a male who has had sex with another male even one time since 1977 is banned for life from donating blood. This policy was written in 1983, Twenty-five years later this policy is not only medically and scientifically unwarranted, it is also discriminatory.
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
Right to Save Campaign - May 16th
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Thank you. This is great! I am a bisexual woman who has received nine pints of donor blood; I would not have been afraid to receive some from the bisexual man I dated for a few years, or from my bi and gay male friends. It can be tested for AIDS and hepatitis. That should be the policy, not discrimination.
Think I'll see what's going on in NYC!
I have a bleeding disorder, and I have to say I think this policy stinks. The quesiton should not be with whom you've had sex, but how many partners one has had.
I wouldn't want to accept blood from a girl who was having sexual intercourse with everyone and anyone ... and most of my gay male friends are pretty prudish.
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