Obama FDA lifts ban on blood donations from gay men
Does the gay agenda trump Americans' safety for Obama?
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Articles tagged Blood Donation
Trudeau’s Liberals pledged to lift ban on gay blood donations
People who engage in dangerous sexual behaviors have been banned, to protect the blood supply. Is Trudeau poised to change that?
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By lifting blood ban for gay men, FDA decides feelings are more important than lives
The question of who should or should not be allowed to donate blood ought to focus entirely on the costs and benefits to patients - not the emotions of donors.
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Obama administration lifts lifetime ban on gay men donating blood
'Political and social concerns must not be allowed to trump the public health,' Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council said.
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Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Let gay men donate blood
Warren claims the ban on gay men giving blood is 'discriminatory,' but has not called for the same ban to be lifted for other groups.
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FDA panel won’t support eliminating ban on gay men giving blood
Corey Dubin, founder of the HIV/AIDS advocacy group Committee of Ten Thousand, says lifting the ban would be 'a leap of faith' since 'too many questions in science aren't answerable.'
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Federal government considering letting gay men donate blood
Men having homosexual sex account for 52 percent of all Americans with AIDS and 63 percent of new infections.
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Canadian health authorities admit gay sex dangerous, blood-donors must be abstinent 5 years
Men having sex with other men "is a risky behaviour", said Health Canada’s Robert Cushman. "There’s a scientific explanation".
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Canada poised to partially lift ban on gay men giving blood
A 2009 CDC report in the U.S. found that the rate of AIDS is 50 times higher among American homosexual men than in the rest of the population.
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UK lifts total ban on gay men donating blood
The new policy will allow men who say they have not had homosexual relations for ten years to donate blood.
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