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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (115980)	2/28/2008 1:08:50 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

What groups should be excluded? Excluded from donating blood. Any groups at highrisk for disease. Here are some categories that are excluded: * Anyone who has ever used intravenous drugs (illegal IV drugs) * Men who have had sexual contact with other men since 1977 * Anyone who has ever received clotting factor concentrates * Anyone with a positive test for HIV (AIDS virus) * Men and women who have engaged in sex for money or drugs since 1977 * Anyone who has had hepatitis since his or her eleventh birthday * Anyone who has had babesiosis or Chagas disease * Anyone who has taken Tegison for psoriasis * Anyone who has risk factors for Crueutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) or who has an immediate family member with CJD * Anyone who has risk factors for variant CJD * Anyone who spent three months or more in the United Kingdom from 1980 through 1996 * Anyone who has spent five years in Europe from 1980 to the present. Why stop at gay men? As you can see, they don't. Why only exclude them from donating blood. Why not deny them driver's licenses because they tend to have higher incidences of fatal collisions? As far as I know, gays don't have more fatal collisions. Why not just round them up and have them incarcerated or better yet euthanized for being general public health risks? Thats what they've traditionally done in the socialist paradise of Cuba. That would be wrong under our system though. You exclude one group you have to evaluate other groups too for risk. Then you get into delving into their personal lifestyles... If their personal lifestyles make them high-risk, yep. For an American you don't care much for civil liberties, do you? Perhaps you don't care if they're taken away from groups you don't like. There's no "right to donate blood" nor is there a right to force other people to use your blood.