By Jeffrey A. Bennett
Bennett explores the function of medical learn stated via those banned-blood rules and its disquieting courting to govt organizations, together with the FDA. Bennett attracts parallels among the FDA's place on homosexuality and the historic precedents of discrimination through govt corporations opposed to racial minorities. the writer concludes through describing the resistance posed by way of queer donors, who both lie to be able to donate blood or protest discrimination at donation websites, and through calling for those prejudiced regulations to be abolished.
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