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How strange. I thought the divine punishment for the moral depravity sweeping America was Donald Trump occupying the Oval Office. Each person is responsible for their own health and well being. Female-to-female sexual contact is a much less efficient route of HIV transmission when compared to male/male or male/female sexual contact. According to the CDC, there are no confirmed cases of HIV from female-to-female transmission. I still ask partners to be tested over a three month period.
Society treats those who are infected by giving them medication and care. Those who are infected should be considerate of others, too. Just as not providing medical treatment to the infected would be very inconsiderate - perhaps very mean, those who are already infected not taking due care so as to put others at risk are very inconsiderate, too - and are perhaps very mean too. Don't you agree? We are all people. And, yes, we have to protect ourselves from infections, too. It's a two-way thing!
These laws are discriminatory at worst and outdated at best. According to the CDC, Undetectable HIV patients do not transmit the virus. However, you didn’t see that all over the news! Why? Guess it was a better story when it involved stigmatizing/demonizing minority groups as recklessly passing out “death sentences”. The stigma and ignorance needs to stop. In the age of google there is no excuse for such archaic mindset yet sadly, here we are... ????????♀️
HIV and AIDS transmission is a terrible fact should people that have this virus be punished for not revealing it to their sex partners...YES!!! A person that have any STD and that do not reveal it to their sex partner(s) should be arrested and brought to trial. In this Country we must do more to educate and eradicate any and all diseases that is detrimental to our health and livelihood. Do I believe that any such actions, of punishment, is racist or detrimental to any particular race...NO!!!
I always thought it was unusual that the person with HIV would be criminally punished when the person that is making the accusation of being exposed, faces no punishment. Where did responsibility go amongst grown individuals ? You know not to have unsafe sex with ANYONE until you get to know them very well but you can and turn around later and have that person locked up for not exposing his or her HIV status. Does not seem quite right to me. I do not believe in someone purposely exposing others.
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We now face the greatest challenge since the turbulent 60’s, marriage equality, women’s right to choose, open discrimination again, young gay people. We need the senate and congress come November, and all Trump Supreme Court, states can stiffen laws against gay people, deny jobs and housing again. Evangelicals are foaming at the mouth getting ready. Sounds frightening. A wedding cake today,y our civil rights tomorrow. The most important election of your lifetime. Vote, vote your life does depend on it.
June 29, 2018 • Tulsa