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FDA To Reject Homosexual Sperm Donations

By ? (Direct descendent of Karl Marx! - tha malcontent)
Associated Press Writer May 5, 2:45 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) � 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.

(ap) - What are "gay-rights"?... I understand that most mainstream outlets have Conceded the Molestation of the Language regarding "Gay" being the Polite to way to refer to Homosexual Men, but what "Rights" are they being Denied? Marriage is not a "Right"... Habeas Corpus is Specifically called a "Privilege" that can be "Suspended" in the Constitution. As far as I know, Homosexuals have NEVER been Denied the Right to Vote, yet they are constantly comparing their (s)truggle to the Moral and Just Struggle for Basic Rights that People of Color, along with Whites, Fought for over the previous two hundred years. Simply stating that one has "Rights" based on a CLAIM that you were born to Deliberately Deviate from your Natural Design, does not make it so. As to Denying Anonymous sperm donning by Homosexual Men, well... They make up about 2% of the Population, yet continue to be the Majority of new HIV cases in America as of 2003, the latest data available. It's not worth the risk in what amounts to a Plea for Validation that seems to have no boundaries. - tha malcontent)

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.

("Higher-than-average risk" is putting it lightly! As for screening for "high-risk sexual behavior", it's Assumed with Anal Sex, which is what virtually all Homosexual Men engage in. There does not need to be a screening process, Anal Sex isn't even Safe when Monogamous and while using a Condom. We have concluded that if this group of people can't figure out how to stop the spread of AIDS in it's higher-than-averagely Educated population, after 25 years of knowing EXACTLY how not to get HIV, then we should err on the side of Safety, because it's apparent that far too many of them are not to this day... Erring on the side of Safety, that is! - tha malcontent)

"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, director of a clinic in Alameda, Calif., that seeks gay sperm donors.

(Anal sex is never "Safe"... Ask a Doctor. - tha malcontent)

Traiman said adequate safety assurances can be provided by testing a sperm donor at the time of the initial donation, then freezing the sperm for a six-month quarantine and testing the donor again to be sure there is no new sign of HIV or other infectious diseases.

(One question... Is there a shortage of Sperm Donors? Why should anyone be required to go through these lengths to Placate a Claim of Sexuality? - tha malcontent)

Although there is disagreement over whether the FDA guideline regarding gay men will have the force of law, most doctors and clinics are expected to observe it.

(Again, ask a Doctor about "Safe Anal Sex"... It don't exist. - tha malcontent)

The practical effect of the provision -- part of a broader set of cell and tissue donation regulations that take effect May 25 -- is hard to gauge. It is likely to affect some lesbian couples who want a child and prefer to use a gay man's sperm for artificial insemination.

(If you did not Defy your Natural Design, you would not need a Donor! - tha malcontent)

But it is the provision's symbolic aspect that particularly troubles gay-rights groups. Kevin Cathcart, executive director of Lambda Legal, has called it "policy based on bigotry."

("Lambda" sounds a lot like NAMBLA!... As a matter of Fact, I believe they had ties to NAMBLA back in about 1994 when they were removed from a World Conference on Disease and Population for said ties! - tha malcontent)

"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."

(And your Emotion is not based on basic Math, Kevin... You and yours are only 2% of the Population, yet make up the Majority of new HIV cases as of the latest data available. Homosexuals are TWICE as likely to get HIV as IV Drug users, regardless of Race... Anal Sex is more Dangerous than shooting Heroin, get it? - tha malcontent)

In a letter to the FDA, Lambda Legal has suggested a screening procedure based on sexual behavior, not sexual orientation. Prospective donors -- gay or straight -- would be rejected if they had engaged in unprotected sex in the previous 12 months with an HIV-positive person, an illegal drug user, or "an individual of unknown HIV status outside of a monogamous relationship."

(And how would this be verified?... On the donors word? Sorry, I'll stick with the, "We know where the HIV infections are coming from in mass form, so we will just deny them, like they deny their Natural Design sexually." path we are currently on, thanks for calling! - tha malcontent)

But an FDA spokeswoman cited FDA documents suggesting that officials felt the broader exclusion was prudent even if it affected gay men who practice safe sex.

"The FDA is very much aware that strict exclusion policies eliminate some safe donors," said one document.

Many doctors and fertility clinics already have been rejecting gay sperm donors, citing the pending FDA rules or existing regulations of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

(Again, ask a Doctor! - tha malcontent)

"With an anonymous sperm donor, you can't be too careful," said a society spokeswoman, Eleanor Nicoll. "Our concern is for the health of the recipient, not to let more and more people be sperm donors."

(Uh, hello!... People want to know if a Homosexual was the Donor for a number of reasons, the main one being HIV, get it? - tha malcontent)

However, some sperm banks, notably in California, have welcomed gay donors. The director of one of them, Alice Ruby of the Oakland-based Sperm Bank of California, said her staff had developed procedures for identifying gay men with an acceptably low risk of HIV.

(It's really too bad that a Recipient is being Denied the Knowledge that an Arguably Mentally Disturbed person is knowingly Donating. The APA, not that long ago, called Homosexuality a "Mental Disorder", then enough Homosexuals got Degrees in Psychology and infiltrated Pop Culture, and now it's perfectly OK to Deny one's Natural Existence and then Demand that everyone else in Society play dress-up with your Deviancy! - tha malcontent)

Gay men are a major donor source at Traiman's Rainbow Flag sperm bank, and he said that practice would continue despite the new rules.

(Mental note: Don't get Sperm at the "Rainbow Flag Sperm Bank". - tha malcontent)

"We're going to continue to follow judicious, careful testing procedures for our clients that even experts within the FDA say is safe," said Traiman, referring to the six-month quarantine.

(Yeah, give me some of that Sperm that just came out of the clos... I mean Quarantine! That's the good stuff! - tha malcontent)

The FDA rules do not prohibit gay men from serving as "directed" sperm donors. If a woman wishing to become pregnant knows a gay man and asks that he provide sperm for artificial insemination, a clinic could provide that service even if the man had engaged in sex with other men within five years.

However, Traiman said some lesbian couples do not have a gay friend they know and trust well enough to be the biological father of their child, and would thus prefer an anonymous donor.

(Keywords: "Trust enough"... I wonder why? - tha malcontent)

Dr. Deborah Cohan, an obstetrics and gynecology instructor at the University of California, San Francisco, said some lesbians prefer to receive sperm from a gay donor because they feel such a man would be more receptive to the concept of a family headed by a same-sex couple.

(Or maybe they think they are Breeding Homosexuals! - tha malcontent)

"This rule will make things legally more difficult for them," she said. "I can't think of a scientifically valid reason -- it has to be an issue of discrimination..

(You can't Think of a reason, because your not Thinking. Again, Homosexual Males make up, at best, 2% of the Population, yet after 25 years of knowing Exactly how not to get HIV, they still make up the vast Majority of new Infections! That's what's know as a "Scientifically Valid Reason", mmmkay! - tha malcontent)

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