The FDA is preparing to launch a rule recommending that any man who has had sex with another man in the previous five years be barred from serving as an anonymous sperm donor. North Dallas Thirty argues that the media has made this sound much more foreboding than it is. Still, if during airport security searchers you're not allowed to treat young Arab men any differently than Midwestern grandmas, does the public health really demand such a broad brush when it comes to singling out gay men?
Many will claim this is yet another attack by the Bush
administration against gays, so let's keep in mind that the same
exclusionary policy now proposed for sperm bank donations has long
applied to blood bank deposits - and the former Democratic
administration thought that was just fine.