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F.D.A. Lifting Ban on Gay Blood Donors
The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it would scrap a decades-old lifetime prohibition on blood donation by gay and bisexual men, a change that experts said was long overdue and could lift the annual blood supply by as much as 4 percent. However, the agency will continue to ban men who have been sexually active in the last year, saying that the barrier is necessary to keep the blood supply safe, a move that frustrated...
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A step in the right direction but the 12 month thing is stupid.
Yup great progress if you don't read the small details