gay blood cont.

Protests have been launched in Britain by the National Union of Students in response to the National Blood Service's ban on gay blood. Universities in Nottingham, Lancaster, Salford, and Leeds Metropolitan University, to name a few, have been mounting demonstrations claiming that "gay blood is good." During Fresher's week at Birmingham University's Guild of Students, the NBS was banned from setting up a booth. It is estimated that up to 150 new donors were lost. Each of those donors could have potentially given blood up to three times this year. Only 6% of the British population gives blood and universities are a prime source for pumping up the blood supply. I'd be more than willing to give blood, and have in the past, if the ban on gay blood was lifted. With all of the new techniques for screening blood there's no excuse for not including the GLBT community in the blood drives.