please give blood, but be celibate: revised fda rules called into question /

On Tuesday,the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would finally revise a 31-year-outmoded rule banning homosexual and bisexual men from donating bloodHowever, the FDA's updated guidelines introduce a fresh restriction: Only homosexual or bisexual men who are celibate for one year are qualified to give blood. Some health advocates have praised the updated regulation. But for many, and the fresh rules are no less discriminatory than the previous set of rules. Jason Cianciotto,director of public policy at homosexual Men's Health Crisis, explains why he thinks these fresh rules are so problematic. 

Source: wnyc.org