10-07-2017, 07:30 PM
(10-07-2017, 06:41 PM)Fire Mixtape Wrote: http://www.latimes.com/politics/essentia...story.html
How do people feel about this? Fair enough the stigma around HIV/AIDS still exists, but reducing the criminality of knowingly infecting someone without telling them?
It's not the death sentence it was, but it's still a horrible thing to do, and still worthy of being a serious criminal offence IMO.
Tell that to Mark Fowler m8
From reading the article, it seems that the logic behind it is that people were avoiding being tested and infecting others unknowingly as a result, as then they couldn't be charged with the felony. Not sure what the impact of the change in the law will be there (and I'm not sure if such felony charges could be applied retrospectively i.e. would you be charged if you had infected someone without knowing but then got tested?), but if it encourages more testing and prevents more unknowing cases, which I would probably guess would be far more common, then it may actually be a positive (no jokes pls) change in terms of reducing cases overall?