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California State Senator Scott Weiner, a democrat of course has asked that a law be repealed for having unprotected sex and knowingly having the AIDS virus and not telling their partner from being a felony.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/article137308033.html
Only in California. Another looney tone dem hard at work trying to make America safe.
...for one city to produce the likes of SoleSurvivor, FatVern and earlweaver. Or else they ate too many paint chips growing up.
The law is NOT being repealed. The crime is being reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor. But penalties for prostitution are being increased if the provider had tested positive for HIV in a prior conviction. Next time, try reading more than just the headline.
"The original laws were passed during the 1980s and 1990s based on incomplete and outdated science, said Dr. Edward Machtinger, director of the Women's HIV Program at the University of California, San Francisco."
In the 1980s, there were zero effective treatments and unreliable testing available and infection had a pretty good chance to proceed to death or a seriously sickened life that would effect entire families involved with patient care and life support. The laws were passed in the 1980s based on then-currently available information and then-currently available science.
35+ years later, we've learned a thing or two about HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, too. Things have changed; laws should change, too.
(I grew up near a street that started out "no parking anytime"; then it became "parking this side only"; as population density grew, it became "parking on both sides OK"; now, they even allow double parking during the day, except on street cleaning days.)
The law is NOT being repealed. The crime is being reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor. But penalties for prostitution are being increased if the provider had tested positive for HIV in a prior conviction. Next time, try reading more than just the headline.
22. Can a person with HIV who has an undetectable viral load pass HIV to someone else?
Yes. A viral load test measures the amount of HIV in a person’s blood. An undetectable viral load means that the amount of virus in a person’s blood is too low for the test to measure. It does not mean that there is no HIV in the person’s body. A person who has a low or undetectable viral load can pass HIV to someone else, although the risk is probably lower than if he or she had a high viral load. Risk reduction measures, like using condoms and not sharing needles, still need to be taken (see Risk Reduction, page 20).
43. Is there a 100% effective way to prevent sexual transmission of HIV?
The only 100% effective way to prevent sexual transmission of HIV is through abstinence – avoiding all vaginal, anal, and oral sex. Using a latex male condom
or a female condom can greatly reduce, but not entirely eliminate, the risk of HIV
transmission (see questions 44-46). However, abstinence is the only method to
completely eliminate the possibility of sexual transmission of HIV
So the possibility of knowingly passing an infection that could be lethal shouldn't be a Felony?
Seems like common sense it should.
In the 1980s, there were zero effective treatments and unreliable testing available and infection had a pretty good chance to proceed to death or a seriously sickened life that would effect entire families involved with patient care and life support. The laws were passed in the 1980s based on then-currently available information and then-currently available science.
35+ years later, we've learned a thing or two about HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, too. Things have changed; laws should change, too.
(I grew up near a street that started out "no parking anytime"; then it became "parking this side only"; as population density grew, it became "parking on both sides OK"; now, they even allow double parking during the day, except on street cleaning days.)
The law is NOT being repealed. The crime is being reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor. But penalties for prostitution are being increased if the provider had tested positive for HIV in a prior conviction. Next time, try reading more than just the headline.
Lowering the penalty for a crime that not many are probably being charged to begin with.
... and it should be a felony.
The law is NOT being repealed. The crime is being reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor. But penalties for prostitution are being increased if the provider had tested positive for HIV in a prior conviction. Next time, try reading more than just the headline.
I have mixed emotions about this one. I'll admit my kneejerk reaction was WTF???!!!, but then after hearing both sides and thinking about it a bit, I am on the fence here.
True, HIV is not the automatic death sentence it once was, but let me put it this way. If you caught HIV from someone who knew damn well she was HIV positive, but put you in harms way anyhow, would you REALLY be satisfied that she only got a slap on the wrist for it? I don't think so, and I know I would want anyone knowingly spreading AIDS to be put away for it.
Yes, the penalties for "hooking while knowingly being HIV positive" are being increased, which I agree with, but I didn't see any specifics, do you happen to know what the actual penalty for those repeat offenders? I would hope they are harsh enough to be an actual deterrent.
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...know anything about journalism. The article was written by a journalist; the headline was written by someone else - a headline writer. Yes, I will rail against rightard morons who simply repeat a headline without reading their own linked articles to see that the article contradicts the headline.