Gay Bashing, FDA Style
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Wednesday May 23, 2007
And in what must must seem like 3 steps forward, 2 steps back, the Food and Drug Administration this past Wednesday reaffirmed their policy against allowing gay men to donate blood, even though several domestic and international groups like the Red Cross and others consider the ban to be completely unwarranted and may amount to sexual discrimination.
The rules bar any man who affirms that he had sex with another man since 1977 from donating blood, due to what the FDA considers to be a significant risk of HIV inflection. The lifetime ban places gay men in the same category of intravenous drug users and prostitutes as those it considers to be at an increased risk of infection HIV.
Just one more thing to change once the Smirking POTUS leaves office.
FDA: Gay men still kept from donating blood — Chicago Sun-Times
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Podcast #117
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Leftwing Nutjob Podcast, Episode 117, for Sunday, April 13, 2008
Penn hits the bricks, Iran in the spotlight again, the Obama money machine, al Qaeda’s rising star and more!