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    Dave McReeMar 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM

    My students at Sarah Lawrence College and I posted this petition on the We The People site on whitehouse.gov shortly after midnight March 1, 2013. After all the great work you have done, I thought you might be interested and/or want to help spread the word. If we can get 100,000 online signatures within 30 days, the Administration promises to respond. Thank you so much for any help on this and send it out to whomever you think will help. The petition and its title follow:

    Allow healthy gay and bisexual men to donate blood!

    We ask President Obama to urge the FDA to allow the majority of healthy gay and bisexual men to donate blood. Current blood donor policies are largely inconsistent, imposing significantly less restrictive deferrals to heterosexual men and women who engage in high-risk sexual behavior, yet banning gay and bisexual men who are HIV-negative, consistently practice safe sex, or are in monogamous relationships. The American Red Cross, American Association of Blood Banks, and America’s Blood Centers all support reforming the current policy. Other countries have already reformed their policies to allow gay and bisexual donors. Thousands of desperately needed pints of blood are kept out of the depleted national blood supply each year as a result of this unjust exclusion. Reform is needed today!

    The WE THE PEOPLE website on Whitehouse.gov gave the following URL:

    Short URL: http://wh.gov/wwSu
    Save and Share this URL: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow-healthy-gay-and-bisexual-men-donate-blood/5zWQdryS

    Thanks again, Dave McRee

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