This is from the CBC article Students want screening of blood donors changed.
Dr. Margaret Fearon, executive director of medical microbiology at the blood agency. She said students are mistaken to see the policy as a gay rights issue.
“People who receive blood have a right to safe blood. People do not have a right to donate blood. It’s a privilege, really.”
A privilege? Then stop fucking begging for blood and whining stores are low if it is such a fucking privilege. The truth of the matter while people have the right to clean blood, they do not have the right to decriminate against me unless my blood is not clean.
Not only that but if the CBS wants people to have the right to clean blood then they should also have the right to store their own blood and donate to family members. Period.
“People do not a right to donate blood” is asking for trouble, even though it leaves room for people to think about.
However, “It’s a privilege (to donate blood)” is something that I could agree with. I would compare it to countries which have fresh clean water to donate to poor countries to countries that have very polluted water. I doubt anyone would want water from the Yellow River in China. It’s really a privilege for a country to have clean water.
I disagree.
Privilege is a right or law relating to a specific individual. One cannot claim that blood is public, and limit its use to public use only (ie: I cannot donate to my sister or myself only to the public blood bank) and then claim privilege.
While donating water to China might be the right thing to do, having clean water is not a privilege. That is the law does not apply to me (or Canada) only. There is nothing barring the Chinese from cleaning up the Yellow River, there is something barring me from donating blood.