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VIEWS DIVIDED ON END THE BAN

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January 19, 2012
This article was published more than 2 years ago.
Est. Reading Time: 3 minutes

Kacper Niburski

Assistant News Editor

 

On Jan. 8, the SRA voted to send the “End the Ban” motion, a national campaign
to end the lifetime blood ban on gay men, to the Operations Committee for
further review.

Initially spearheaded by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), of which the
MSU is not a member, the “End the Ban” campaign seeks to abolish the Canadian
Blood Services’ ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with other men,
citing that gay men were at a high rate of infection.

As a precautionary measure, the ban was instituted in 1985 during the height of
the AIDS epidemic when knowledge and technology in viral detection were not as
sensitive as modern techniques.

Although slight grumbles of inequality and discrimination surfaced among fringe
humanitarian groups, the 1985 lifetime ban was generally accepted by all,
including those in the gay community.

But with time came medical advancements and a breadth of knowledge. Current
analytical techniques can detect HIV within a blood donor, public awareness
regarding the perils of the immunodeficiency syndrome have expanded, and
‘high-risk’ lifestyles have been minimized with the widespread use of condoms.
In fact, the American Red Cross has gone so far to say “the risk of not getting
a blood transfusion when it’s needed is infinitely greater than the risk of
infection from receiving one.”

After a presentation by Riaz Sayani-Mulji, Operations Commissioner for the SRA,
which highlighted these facts, the SRA devolved into debate regarding the
support of the ban where both for and against were represented.

Opposition swelled in the Assembly as some of the representatives questioned the
merits of the ban itself.

They believed that any endorsement was premature in its inception. The topic of
a lifetime blood ban was much more complex than the discrimination policy
suggests. Without an actual plan that is detailed and involves all appropriate
parties, including the Canadian Blood Services and the MSU,  a ban on blood
services at McMaster will be entirely fruitless. Rather than prove anything or
further a cause, it may simply result in more harm.

Others argued that if the student representatives do not endorse the ban, then
they are necessarily acquiescent to a policy that perpetuates discrimination. In
a way, the proponents of the ban implicitly suggested that a lack of support by
the SRA marginalizes a minority of their constituency.

Simon Granat, Social Science representative, supported such a view, writing an
opinion in the Silhouette and saying “if you don’t stand up against
discrimination – even if you’re apathetic – you let hate continue.”

Yet such opposing reasons pale into comparison to the greatest precursor of
debate: politics. As the MSU is not a member of the CFS, many of its members are
participants of other advocacy groups such as the Ontario Undergraduate Student
Association (OUSA) which is in turn a sister group of the Canadian Alliance of
Student Associations (CASA). The two, CFS and CASA, are diametrically opposed.
While they both are champions of student welfare, the way they go about enacting
their demands is entirely different. The CFS has been commonly characterized as
a leftist, radical group, while CASA is portrayed more moderate in nature.

“Certain members of the Assembly do not seem to want to endorse or participate
in this movement because of the CFS connection,” Sayani-Mulji

All of these issues together have resulted in a standstill within the SRA. The
motion has not been endorsed, and now the Operations Committee is faced with
trying to house the ban within the MSU, a task that will certainly be met with
opposition.

Whether the opposition or support is merited or not remains to be seen.
Currently, much of the public awareness has been led by outreach groups such as
Occupy McMaster and the School of Social work. On the other hand, the SRA’s
debate sired a discussion centralized on a differences of opinions as opposed to
anything else.

The SRA plans to meet Jan. 22 to discuss consequent motions.

 


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