FDA weighs lifting ban on blood donations from gay men
[...] “The public health rationale for this ban has kind of been packed away,” said Glenn Cohen, a medical ethics professor at Harvard Law School who criticized the ban in an article recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Members of Congress have also thrown in their support, led by those in the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus.
Gay rights groups are also increasingly targeting the policy, bolstered by recent victories like the military eliminating its “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy and the Supreme Court striking down major portions of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Fighting the ban on blood donations is a logical next step for their advocacy, Cohen said.
“It’s a little crazy that you can shed blood for your country, but you can’t donate blood to another human being,” he added. [...]
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