Belldandy
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With limitations, of course.
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About time, jeez. My friend actually wanted to donate blood last year but was told he wasn't allowed because he is homosexual! He was so embarassed and angered because he genuinely wanted to help people - who could have survived with his blood (he has a rarer type) - and they told him flat-out "no"!
Hoping this gets "fixed" fast so that there won't be any terms on homosexuals donating blood. The abstinence thing is just silly. You wouldn't ask a married woman or man to be abstinent for five years before donating blood. Why instill limits on a group of people where is has been shown in recent years that AIDS and homosexuals are not like pb&j where they go together naturally. Heterosexuals contract and spread it just as much. Phooey.
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TORONTO -- Canada is lifting a nearly 30-year-old ban on gay men giving blood, though for the time being only those who are abstinent will be allowed to donate.
The new policy, which Canadian Blood Services hopes to have in place by mid-summer, will allow men to donate blood if they haven't had sex with another man for five years before the donation.
The agency understands that the length of this deferral won't satisfy all critics. But agency executive Dana Devine said this is the first step in what Canadian Blood Services hopes will be a continued effort to work out what is the best approach to incorporating gay men into the donation community.
"So the message to them today is to simply bear with us," Devine, vice-president of medical, scientific and research affairs at Canadian Blood Services, said in an interview.
"We are working toward attempting to make the opportunity for additional people to donate blood ... and we just aren't quite there yet for that group of people."
About time, jeez. My friend actually wanted to donate blood last year but was told he wasn't allowed because he is homosexual! He was so embarassed and angered because he genuinely wanted to help people - who could have survived with his blood (he has a rarer type) - and they told him flat-out "no"!
Hoping this gets "fixed" fast so that there won't be any terms on homosexuals donating blood. The abstinence thing is just silly. You wouldn't ask a married woman or man to be abstinent for five years before donating blood. Why instill limits on a group of people where is has been shown in recent years that AIDS and homosexuals are not like pb&j where they go together naturally. Heterosexuals contract and spread it just as much. Phooey.