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10-10-2017, 08:22 AM
Californiaâs governor, Jerry Brown, on Friday signed a law that lowers the penalty for exposing partners to HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor, which includes those who donate blood without informing the center about their HIV status.
âToday California took a major step toward treating HIV as a public health issue, instead of treating people living with HIV as criminals,â Sen. Scott Wiener, D.- San Francisco, told The Los Angeles Times.
Exposing a person to HIV was treated more seriously under California law than infecting someone with any other communicable disease, a policy some lawmakers said was a relic of the decades-old AIDS scare that unfairly punishes HIV-positive people based on outdated science.
Under the old law, if a person who knows they are infected with HIV has unprotected sex without telling their partner they have the virus, they can be convicted of a felony and face years of jail time. Intentional transmission of any other communicable disease, even a potentially deadly condition like hepatitis, is a misdemeanor.
âThese laws were passed at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic when there was enormous fear and ignorance and misinformation around HIV,â Wiener earlie said. âItâs time for California to lead and to repeal these laws to send a clear signal that we are going to take a science-based approach to HIV not a fear-based approach.â
Republican lawmaker, Sen Joel Anderson, reportedly voted against the bill.
âIâm of the mind that if you purposefully inflict another with a disease that alters their lifestyle the rest of their life, puts them on a regimen of medications to maintain any kind of normalcy, it should be a felony,â Anderson said, according to the paper.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/10/10...a.amp.html
âToday California took a major step toward treating HIV as a public health issue, instead of treating people living with HIV as criminals,â Sen. Scott Wiener, D.- San Francisco, told The Los Angeles Times.
Exposing a person to HIV was treated more seriously under California law than infecting someone with any other communicable disease, a policy some lawmakers said was a relic of the decades-old AIDS scare that unfairly punishes HIV-positive people based on outdated science.
Under the old law, if a person who knows they are infected with HIV has unprotected sex without telling their partner they have the virus, they can be convicted of a felony and face years of jail time. Intentional transmission of any other communicable disease, even a potentially deadly condition like hepatitis, is a misdemeanor.
âThese laws were passed at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic when there was enormous fear and ignorance and misinformation around HIV,â Wiener earlie said. âItâs time for California to lead and to repeal these laws to send a clear signal that we are going to take a science-based approach to HIV not a fear-based approach.â
Republican lawmaker, Sen Joel Anderson, reportedly voted against the bill.
âIâm of the mind that if you purposefully inflict another with a disease that alters their lifestyle the rest of their life, puts them on a regimen of medications to maintain any kind of normalcy, it should be a felony,â Anderson said, according to the paper.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/10/10...a.amp.html
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10-10-2017, 12:17 PM
Me either. If they "knowingly" expose someone to HIV virus, what's the difference from that to poisoning someone?
10-10-2017, 08:15 PM
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Premeditated murder at that
Should mean death penalty
Premeditated murder at that
Should mean death penalty
10-10-2017, 08:15 PM
^
Premeditated murder at that
Should mean death penalty
Premeditated murder at that
Should mean death penalty
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