A Colorado doctor is fighting the FDA to allow men who have sex with men to donate their corneas

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A man wearing a white lab coat and a blue button down shirt peers into a medical device used by eye doctors at the camera.
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Ophthalmologist Dr. Michael Peunte behind a phoropter in an exam room on the Anschutz Medical Campus. June 7, 2024.


A man in a white lab coat with a blue button down top stands in front of a medical chair and a medical device used by eye doctors.
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Ophthalmologist Dr. Michael Peunte in an exam room on the Anschutz Medical Campus. June 7, 2024.

A model of an eye in an eye doctor exam room. It's the side of an eyeball.
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A model in an ophthalmology exam room on the Anschutz Medical Campus shows the cornea, the eye's clear, outermost layer. June 7, 2024.

Standing left to right are four people -- Mat Bashaw, Alisha Bashaw, Sherri Bashaw and Everett "Butch" Bashaw
Alisha Bashaw

fingers holding plastic disc that holds a cornea tissue
Rocky Mountain Eye Bank

forceps, tweezers and other instruments are on a sterile field
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