News, Senators: Lift ban on gays donating blood. (Washington, Vermont, food)

[JD59]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The time has come to change a policy that imposes a lifetime ban on donating blood for any man who has had gay sex since 1977, 18 senators said Thursday.

"Not a single piece of scientific evidence supports the ban," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who joined 16 other Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in writing Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.

My Way News - Senators: Lift ban on gays donating blood

[Smooth23]

Higher(much higher) rates of HIV and Hepatitis are more than enough reason I need to ban gays from donating blood.

[tao]

This is going nowhere. If you want to debate the topic take it to the Politics or the Great Debates forums.