The FDA has decided to ban gays from donating sperm:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/gay_sperm_donorsI'm all for infection control, but that's ridiculous. According to the CDC, about 30 percent of the men with HIV in the US are straight. That's about 176K sperm donors. I don't usually jump on the idea that the government is out to "get" specfic people/groups, but I'll have to admit that, in this case, something sure stinks in Washington.
leslie :-D 11,191 Posts May 5, 2005 talk about taking 10 huge steps backwards.truly this article left me w/my jaw hung open.hiv isn't even a friggin' gay man's disease anymore and has definitely become more pervasive amongst the straight population.and what about the millions of people w/hep? how thoroughly are they being screened?it would definitely behoove the fda to remove their heads from their a$$es and start researching current literature/trends.leslie
grimmy, RN 349 Posts May 5, 2005 there are homophobes everywhere. and, as much as this action by the fda makes no sense (can they really mandate this? i mean, people lie on forms), they can't necessarily make this sort of rule ironclad. it's more bureaucratic crap to try to keep people "in their place." ridiculous.
