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Old 09-01-2013, 07:36 PM  
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Russia may bring back gay blood donor ban

Full story http://rt.com/politics/gay-russian-donors-law-993/

"Russia could soon reintroduce the ban on blood and organ donations for gay men, but offer them free treatment facilitating ?conversion? to heterosexuals, a senior Russian MP has said.

?We will suggest amendments to the law on donors that reintroduce homosexuality to the list of contraindications for blood donations in Health Ministry instructions,? said State Duma MP Mikhail Degtyarev, who is also a Moscow mayoral candidate from the populist-nationalist party LDPR.

The politician told a news conference in Moscow that in his view such a step could not be considered discriminatory, as 65 percent of all HIV-positive persons are homosexuals. Degtyarev did not give the source of this statistics.

Degtyarev also added that the lower house was working on the initiative to offer gays voluntary anonymous consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists and sexologists that would help them to ?return to normal life and become heterosexuals, as are 95 to 99 percent of our citizens.? "

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