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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

HIV patients in California who expose others to disease will no longer face felony charges

California’s governor, Jerry Brown, on Friday signed a law that lowers the penalty for exposing partners to HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor, which includes those who donate blood without informing the center about their HIV status.

“Today California took a major step toward treating HIV as a public health issue, instead of treating people living with HIV as criminals,” Sen. Scott Wiener, D.- San Francisco, told The Los Angeles Times.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's Bullcrap !! I'll never step another foot into California !!

Anonymous said...

One sick a$$ state!!

Anonymous said...


Extremely stupid action.

All of the enhanced scrutiny around blood donations came about because of HIV carriers donating and spreading their disease to innocent recipients. Largely stopped the disease transmission to patients. We had a fine young employee couple of decades back who contracted AIDs this way; it killed him.

Just a morally wrong decision kowtowing.