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FDA Bans Gay Sperm Donors

That's right, the FDA set to ban gay men as sperm donors:

To the dismay of gay-rights activists, the Food and Drug Administration is about to implement new rules recommending that any man who has engaged in homosexual sex in the previous five years be barred from serving as an anonymous sperm donor.

The FDA has rejected calls to scrap the provision, insisting that gay men collectively pose a higher-than-average risk of carrying the AIDS virus. Critics accuse the FDA of stigmatizing all gay men rather than adopting a screening process that focuses on high-risk sexual behavior by any would-be donor, gay or straight.

“Under these rules, a heterosexual man who had unprotected sex with HIV-positive prostitutes would be OK as a donor one year later, but a gay man in a monogamous, safe-sex relationship is not OK unless he’s been celibate for five years,” said Leland Traiman.

"The part I find most offensive - and a little frightening - is that it isn't based on good science," Cathcart said. "There's a steadily increasing trend of heterosexual transmission of HIV, and yet the FDA still has this notion that you protect people by putting gay men out of the pool."

How this is anything but gay-bashing is besides me. Big surprise that this isn't based on good science, but based on fear and politics. Much like abstinence programs which lie, or lies about Evolution - including horribly misstating what evolution is, saying viral immunization will increase sex among teens, to the War in Iraq, we could go on and on. The Bush Administration always seems to lie instead of walking a straight line in order to win. America's extreme partition divide is directly due to the President's, Tom Delay's, and Karl Rove's stewardship of the Republican Party into a win by any means necessary tone. You can see this illustrated in the John Bolton nomination fiasco.

FDA Bans Gay Sperm Donors

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