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Flat White

Are you pregnant, sir?

29 June 2022

11:00 AM

29 June 2022

11:00 AM

When one thinks of Scotland, one might conjure up images of the hauntingly beautiful and bleak highlands. A place that breeds a sinewy and humorous people. Names like Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, Agnes Campbell, Adam Smith, and David Hume come to mind. 

How things change.

Nineteen centuries after the Romans were repelled by the Highland tribes, a Scottish man named Leslie Sinclair was turned away from donating blood after he refused to answer whether he was pregnant.

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