Submitted on Tuesday 14th June 2016
Rejected on Thursday 16th June 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Lift the ban on members of the LGBT community from donating blood.
In the UK, many people in the LGBT community are not able to donate blood. Presently, sexually active gay and bisexual men are banned from donating blood unless they do not engage in these acts for 12 months, prior to donating.
All blood samples used for donation are subject to rigorous testing to ensure that various illnesses, including HIV/AIDS cannot be transferred to a recipient of blood.
This also draws away from the fact that a promiscuous heterosexual male who has multiple partners is in fact a higher risk of infection than a monogamous homosexual male.
Every minute in Scotland, someone is receiving blood yet only 5% of the population donate. Lifting such a ban could change that percentage dramatically
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/123210
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