HIV legislation to end Stigmatization in California passed

[CarsomyrPlusSix]

As a hospice nurse, I have helped take care of end-stage HIV / AIDS patients.

Doing that to someone else on accident is tragic. Doing that to someone else on purpose is unconscionable and should be a serious crime.

 

[Horsefly]

As a hospice nurse, I have helped take care of end-stage HIV / AIDS patients.

Doing that to someone else on accident is tragic. Doing that to someone else on purpose is unconscionable and should be a serious crime.

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According to what seems like an educated poster, it still is:

There's a lot of nuance missing in this thread from what I have parsed through thus far:

1. It is still illegal to knowingly transmit HIV with malicious intent, the CNN article quickly edited to remove that misunderstanding of the bill.

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[Kyra]

But is it illeagal to do that with other infectious diseases?

 

[Reverse Giraffe]

This is not an issue of LGBT rights at all. Knowingly spreading HIV and not telling a sexual partner should be a felony whether your partner is a man or woman (or transgender!)