California Governor Jerry Brown is expected to give a green light to a bill allowing HIV positive people to knowingly expose their blood to others.
The bill, SB 239, will reduce the penalties for knowingly exposing someone to HIV without telling them, allowing HIV positive people to donate their blood to others. Lawmakers claim the current felony charge for the crime is ‘discriminatory.’
Foxnews.com reports: State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who introduced the bill, said the current law discriminates against people with HIV because people who expose others with different viruses get only a misdemeanor rather than a felony.
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“Right now HIV is singled out for uniquely harsh treatment as a felony,” Wiener said during the floor debate, according to the L.A. Times. He added that modern drugs allow someone with HIV to be noninfectious to others, while the felony charge may discourage some from getting tested.
“These laws do not prevent HIV infections. All they do is stigmatize people living with HIV and reduce access to testing and care.”
“These laws do not prevent HIV infections. All they do is stigmatize people living with HIV and reduce access to testing and care.”
– State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat
The bill – if passed – would also apply to people who donated semen or blood without disclosing they have HIV or AIDS.
All Republicans came out against the bill, claiming a reduction in penalties for exposing someone to HIV puts the public at risk.
“I’m 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 regiment of medications to maintain any kind of normalcy, it should be a felony,” state Sen. Joel Anderson, of San Diego, said, the L.A. Times reported.
“It’s absolutely crazy to me that we should go light on this,” he added, suggesting tougher penalties should be applicable to those with other diseases.
“It’s absolutely crazy to me that we should go light on this.”
– State Sen. Joel Anderson, San Diego
Jeff Stone, a Republican senator and former pharmacist from Murrieta, said the law should remain unchanged as someone exposing their partner to HIV would “condemn one to probably $1 million in drug therapy for the rest of their lives.”
Seems to me HIV drugs should not be covered under Medicaid or Medicare since it is impossible to become infected if one observes safe sex protocols.
Had AIDs been allowed to run its course in the 1980’s those likely to be infected would have died and only HIV resistant homos left.
unit, It’s kinda sad how all the hard-working Negroes died off, they were ill-prepared for dealing with welfare applications and accepting free-shit. But HF says that’s ok, we can only admire those suited for survival in this brave new world; if the homos get better at resisting HIV, it’s all good.
unit….”ince it is impossible to become infected if one observes safe sex protocols.”
not with this CA Bill – all you need a a blood transfusion
A year before I retired I did a surgical removal of a bad wisdom tooth. The client had no negative information on his health history. Due to his undisclosed use of steroids and who knows what else, the bone of his maxillary tuberosity was like cement and fused to the tooth – and came out with the tooth. That left a big hole and it had to be sutured to close the wound. As I struggled to make the needed stitches as he fidgeted in the chair, the suture needle went into my gloved finger, deeply. No big deal I thought. It happens quite often. Emergency room physicians have confirmed my experience with the frequency of needle sticks in the course of business. My trusty assistant later did some chair side investigation with the client. She discovered that he was gay and HIV positive – with a very heavy titer of virus. So I consulted with the infectious disease chief at a local hospital. They put me on two weeks of anti viral. I did not seroconvert. It was only because my assistant had a gay brother that she engendered trust with the individual. The hospital had to walk a very thin line in dealing with the individual with the virus to get a picture of his status. Privacy and all that.
Point being, aids is a disease putting many at risk, even those who are not gay. Women partners, health care workers and transfusion recipients come to mind as those at risk.
When honest clients disclosed their positive HIV status on their health history I had no fear of working on them. It is the ones who do not disclose that frighten me. And the law of averages dictate that I most likely saw several every week.
It is mind blowing to think this nonsense will pass. How insane!
As for faggots – AIDS is the cure!
while what unit said above may or may not be true, one thing is certainly true. I don’t want any CA blood any more. Where on my hospital form is the line for the refusal to accept blood from California? Oh, I bet there isn’t one cause…feelings.
Whatever the “crimina law” maybe in California blood banks and hospitals will still be liable in civil court if they dispense blood contaminated with HIV so the only real effect of this will be to raise the cost and, perhaps, the availability of blood.
I don’t want any CA blood any more. – Rob the vampire.
…this is the same California that is pushing for mandatory vaccinations…
They have to reduce the population somehow. Didn’t you see unit’s comment? The name of the game is cull the weak and principled, survival of the Naziest, baby!
Liberals are truly mentally ill and emotionally disturbed!!!
Will they please secede already?
I give platelets every 3 to 4 weeks and mentioned this to one of the nurses. She said it’s not possible, I only told her what I saw in the article. I am under the impression that all blood is tested for HIV. I do know you are asked a series of about 50 question several of which are directly AIDS related including time spent in jail, accidental needle stick and various sexual contact questions. Any of these would automatically disqualify you from donating, as well as things such as a fever or elevated blood pressure. I cannot see any purpose for putting the nations blood supply in danger, and yes you donations go all over the nation depending on where the need is.
Somehow I cannot imagine the Red Cross opening itself up to massive litigation for the purpose of trying to normalize the possible spread of a deadly virus. They keep detailed records on donations, They have mine back 15 or 20 years. I would have to think that anyone who is flagged would automatically be disqualified as a donor. Still one or two wrong tests, and many people could be unnecessarily exposed to this deadly virus. Many of the blood and platelet donations are broken up into multiple components and a single donation may well end up in several different people.
I do not see how this ends well for anybody, but it is California.
Bob.
JFC…..
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Hmmm, and the bill was proposed by a Wiener…
This may be a good time for people to start thinking about giving their own blood and having it stored so it will be on hand for them if they end up needing blood in some emergency.
I can only hope that this insane fucker gets fecal matter added to his food when he dines-out by one of the few dozen conservatives still residing in California. This is exactly why “WTF?” entered the written lexicon.
Voddie, it’s not a phrase that just entered the lexicon, it’s a military expression that went thus – What the fuck, over?
It meant, Why the fuckover? in regards to being shafted by somebody you trusted.
It has since morphed into a question; what is going on or what just happened?
These people in Commiefornia deserve everything that’s coming to them.
We didn’t do anything, it was a gaggle of gays in San Fran. We don’t bitch about you fucking Somali lovers in Minnesota.
Two sentences in your post, one homophobic and one racist.
There may be some hope for you after all.
Apparently, you haven’t seen my misogynist posts.
Hope is all I’ve got.
My momma loves me.
Maggie too, but not as much as she loves Alejandro.
Who says TPTB won’t have the population down to 500 million by 2040? That is the goal they have set for that date. This is just the beginning…….think pandemics, war, famine.
Jesus loves you.
This I know.
I luv ya, EC
God bless your ample boobs, MC. Did you read my offensive comment to Maggie regarding milk intolerance? I said I had a preference for breast milk. It went over her head. She never gets my jokes.
Indeed, you are the one who brought me out of the womb, the one who made me feel safe at my mother’s breasts.
California is going full retard.
Kill and Destroy, we are not going full retard. It’s the commentators tonight that are losing it; they are going full Ferguson.
Wow. Just wow. I can’t even..
HIV deliberately ignored and allowed in the blood supply of the nation ??? This cannot end well . It’s in the air it’s there everywhere we are losing it as a nation . Murderous drug addicted homeless illegal kills an innocent bystander with a gun low by law enforcement and a jury of 12 California citizens declare him not guilty ??? The only reason we can find for there decision is the infectious left of the area over our president WTF
I will be in the bunker with the bullets & bourbon if needed .