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Seventeen Democrat senators and one independent have called to end America’s ban on gay men donating blood.
The 1983 rule is “outdated, medically and scientifically unsound”, they argued in a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday.
Senator John Kerry, who is leading the campaign, said in a statement: “Not a single piece of scientific evidence supports the ban. A law that was once considered medically justified is today simply outdated and needs to end, just as last year we ended the travel ban against those with HIV.”
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