And now the FDA wants to use the same asinine rules for sperm donation as for blood donation

[conuly]

Instead of testing donors to make sure they're not sick, they'd rather just exclude a huge swath of the population from donating.

Brilliant plan, guys. Really.

Comments

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

You mean how my living in Europe excludes me from donating blood?

Although I will say, big freakin deal, sperm isn't something you need to live...

[conuly]

Although I will say, big freakin deal, sperm isn't something you need to live...

Yes, and? Does that make discrimination acceptable? Marriage isn't something one needs to live either, and yet.... Neither is military service.

You mean how my living in Europe excludes me from donating blood?

Yes, exactly. That's another stupid rule.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I'm actually not keen on a lot of fertility stuff, so that's why I'm a bit snippy. I'm more saying why bother with all this donation anyways, but that's me. And this is more of a private thing than blood banks so I don't like the FDA getting involved in this. I wonder what other criteria are for getting rejected and if there are any known cases of HIV infection from sperm donation.

And yes senseless discrimination sucks.