Submitted on Sunday 19th March 2017
Rejected on Monday 27th March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Gay people should be allowed to donate blood just the same as straight people.
Currently, gay people are not allowed to donate blood through the NHS, due to higher STD risks. However, these risks are still present in everyone - it should be an all-or-nothing approach.
The NHS claim that the higher risk factor of blood-borne diseases (for example, AIDS) is the reason for the gay blood ban. However, straight people can and do catch these diseases as well - The blood should be properly screened and all people subjected to the same rule set, regardless of their sexual orientation.
The current rules suggest that infected blood from straight people could potentially be transfused - which is a huge risk in general. Their efforts are focused in the wrong place.
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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/170131
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