FDA to weigh lifting ban on gay men donating blood
Posted on AllSides November 29th, 2014
From The Right
Advisors for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will meet next week to discuss lifting a 30-year-old ban that prohibits gay men from donating blood.
Long-time critics of the ban, including some members of Congress, say the Dec. 2 meeting is a step in the right direction.
“We’ve got the ball rolling. I feel like this is a tide-turning vote,” Ryan James Yessak, an LGBT activist who founded the National Gay Blood Drive and will speak at before the Blood Products Advisory Committee, told The Hill. “There’s been a...