Blood Donors
Re “Relax the Ban on Gay Blood Donors,” Opinion, April 30: Douglas Starr’s reliance upon “deferring gay men a year from their last homosexual contact” says more than I want to know even though “they’d be rigorously screened.”
Driving a vehicle is a privilege. If blood is needed, simply grant the privilege and renewal thereof dependent upon a pint of blood. Deferment for medical reasons can be made. If the driver needs deferment for religious reasons, the driver is never a blood recipient.
EDWARD B. FRANKEL MD
Anaheim
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