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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Blood, Personal Rights, and Freedom
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Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 17:21:15 EST
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From: ark@alice.UUCP
>The obvious response to a policy of giving the government names
>of blood donors who test positive for HIV, etc. is simply to stop
>donating blood.  If enough people do this, the policy will change.

I thought the point was that blood which was not "donated" was being
tested also, I presume what they meant was that if I go in for a test
for, oh I dunno, diabetes (blood sugar) that they'll test a portion of
my blood for HIV and, if positive, send that result to some bureaucrat
who will make sure only the wrong people will have access to that
information.

Could someone clarify? I remember the specific point in the original
article that it included blood not destined for the donor pool, or did
you (ark) just mean to boycott blood donation destined for the donor
pool as a political statement (not unreasonable, but perhaps a little
harder to organize.) Of course there is a "cutting off one's nose"
factor in that, could be a lot of loss of blood...

	-Barry Shein, Boston University