From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 12:02:34 MDT
>>> Individuals even have the right to donate blood while positive, with
>>> the onus on the blood banks to test every pint that comes in, and
>>> praying that they don't get a false negative.
>> This is bogus. Evidence please? As gay person, I have been blocked from
>> giving blood for decades. In Florida, there is a form they show you that
>> ...
> As a blood donor, I agree. The from not only won't let anyone who
> admits to even a single homosexual act since (I forget) donate, it also
> won't allow people who have visited Britain, or various other countries,
> or used any intravenous drug, or several other things that I don't
> remember because they don't apply to me donate blood.
Many in my family is excluded from blood donations for extraordinarily
picky reasons as well--some have vacationed in Tonga, for example, and
I was turned down because I hired a prostitute. They are incredibly
paranoid, if you ask me.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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