On Monday, deciding that refraining from alienating those in the gay community was more important than the health of the public at large, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would reverse the decades-old restrictions preventing men who have sex with men from donating blood. The new rules stipulate that men who have had sex with men are banned from giving blood for one year, but men who haven’t had sex with men for over a year are free to donate blood.
How do blood donor centers know if homosexual men have had sex with men in the last year? By asking the men themselves, of course, and trusting they will tell the truth.
.png)
.png)
