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12. Really?

Reply to MNBrewer (Reply #4)

Mon Aug 18, 2014, 04:45 PM

Aug 2014

My husband could state my sexual history with 100% accuracy for the last 22 years.

My mother, were she alive, would be less reliable.

It is not discriminatory. It is risk management. Anyone who is any risk category would not have their tissues used for non-life-sustaining transplants.

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Mother of gay teen who committed suicide outraged at FDA ban on gay organ donation [View all] Playinghardball Aug 2014 OP

I didn't know there was such a ban????? FarPoint Aug 2014 #1

Eyes are not life-critical organs; the test they use is only 97% accurate REP Aug 2014 #2

This is absolutely discriminatory MNBrewer Aug 2014 #4

I am a 27-year cancer survivor YarnAddict Aug 2014 #5

Are you equating being gay to having cancer? It sure sounds as if you are. Bluenorthwest Aug 2014 #6

Of course not. YarnAddict Aug 2014 #7

can you clarify what risk is run by transplanting tissues from gay men? MNBrewer Aug 2014 #8

It is a bit dated, but here: Ms. Toad Aug 2014 #9

16 years old, gay and statistically tainted with HIV. MNBrewer Aug 2014 #10

The population is statistically most likely to have a new infection. Ms. Toad Aug 2014 #11

Really? REP Aug 2014 #12

I posted about this travesty earlier... doxydad Aug 2014 #3

The article you posted had a lot of inaccuracies REP Aug 2014 #13

That poor woman, I do weep for her. Rex Aug 2014 #14