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

[leora.livejournal.com]

The rules aren't well-based on safety. Protected sex with a bisexual or homosexual isn't a big risk, and you can test for the known risks. Meanwhile, people like me are free to give blood. They haven't found any cause for why I became extremely fatigued, went blind, and had lots of other things suddenly go wrong, so I'm perfectly allowed to give blood if my sexual and travel history allows it. Because they didn't find anything wrong with the blood that they can detect. They don't know it to be contagious. So, it's okay.

Enjoy your heterosexual blood supply. :)