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We WANT tainted blood!
Moved to Fifth Column and edited, otherwise it'd be way off-topic...
Citing a federal guideline meant to prevent the blood supply from being tainted with HIV, students at Southern Oregon University have canceled a planned blood drive, saying the regulation discriminates against homosexuals, reports the Associated Press. "From my understanding, it's a rule (the federal government) made up in the 1980s, and people are not up to date," David Adkins-Brown, SOU multicultural senator, told AP.
Multicultural Senator? Put that on your resume.
Even though homosexual men account for 42 percent of HIV-AIDS sufferers, Adkins-Brown claims it is wrong to label it a homosexual disease.
Anyone want to hire this genius?
"I know I've been yelling about it for years," said Daniel Conner, a senior, according to the AP report. "I'm a gay man, and I don't like being forced to lie to help people."
I hope you don’t need blood for an operation from this guy
Don't lie. That'll help me, whether you end up giving blood or not...
The guidelines were established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the 1980s as a way to reduce risk to blood recipients. Intravenous drug users also are ineligible to donate blood. Dr. Leslie Holness, medical officer for the division of blood applications for the FDA, talked about the screening process. "The committee is reluctant to change present guidelines if they seem to be protective," Holness told AP. "You have to balance how much good you're doing with a safe blood supply with the bad feelings you're stirring in groups of people."
I pick a safe blood supply over hurt feeling
The student leader who made the decision to cancel the blood drive says she "made the right decision."
So what they are basically saying is we should all be put at risk to protect the feelings of people engaged in a high-risk lifstyle? I would rather not play russian roulette with the blood supply. Why not allow them to donate blood and those people who want, can ask for the Gay blood? I am sure that everyone at SOU would choose that supply. In nature they would call this Natural Selection.
Just another incident of ideology taking precedence over common sense.

Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2003-05-21
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