Gay Sperm Ban

This from 365gay.com (via the Associated Press) reads, in part:


Gays To Be Banned As Sperm Donors
(New York City)

The Food and Drug Administration is about to implement new rules recommending that any man who has engaged in homosexual sex in the previous five years be barred from serving as an anonymous sperm donor.

"Under these rules, a heterosexual man who had unprotected sex with HIV-positive prostitutes would be OK as a donor one year later, but a gay man in a monogamous, safe-sex relationship is not OK unless he's been celibate for five years," said Leland Traiman, director of a clinic in Alameda, Calif., that seeks gay sperm donors.

But it is the provision's symbolic aspect that particularly troubles gay-rights groups. Kevin Cathcart, executive director of Lambda Legal, has called it "policy based on bigotry."

"The part I find most offensive — and a little frightening — is that it isn't based on good science," Cathcart said. "There's a steadily increasing trend of heterosexual transmission of HIV, and yet the FDA still has this notion that you protect people by putting gay men out of the pool."

You know, I bet there are a bunch of folks out there who, when they read this story, will conclude that, Wow!, if they ban gay sperm then there won't be any more homa-sex-yalls born.

Uh-huh, I know, the people who would believe such a thing are probably the same folks who think it's okay to marry your cousin and fuck the goat out in the barn or the south forty ... whichever is more convenient.