Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government Should it be a crime to knowingly expose someone to HIV without disclosing it?
Most sane people would say yes. But a widely panned Vox article published this week said that state laws making it a crime to not disclose your HIV status âhave only increased stigma and abuse.â And apparently, many 2020 Democrats agree with this ludicrous, insane point of view.
I need to give Vox more credit. It manages to always get worse than it is. Thatâs a real skill… pic.twitter.com/KB0U2ilXVA
â Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) October 10, 2019
This was a common theme at Thursday nightâs CNN town hall focused on gay and transgender issues, sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign. Host Anderson Cooper, for example, called laws criminalizing HIV nondisclosure âantiquatedâ and based on âold science.â Presidential contender Pete Buttigieg agreed, saying, âItâs not fair and it needs to change.â And both on the CNN stage and in her new LGBT issues platform, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has endorsed decriminalizing HIV transmission as well.
Sen. Cory Booker has also signed on to this radicalism, explicitly agreeing that laws requiring disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners are âarchaicâ and have âno scientific basis,â calling for their complete repeal.
.@PeteButtigieg says criminal penalties for not informing a sexual partner that you are HIV-positive are “unfair and needs to change.”
The argument is that if the virus is undetectable it is untransmittable. pic.twitter.com/BxWFhuwmbS
â Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 11, 2019
Letâs be frank: This is just completely insane â and talk about “not science-based.”
Of course, no one should get sent to jail for accidentally transmitting the HIV virus if they didn’t know. But to knowingly conceal that you have the virus is to put another person at risk.
What happened to Democrats being big on consent? If you fail to tell a sexual partner that you have HIV, you are stripping them of their ability to make an informed decision to consent. Essentially, this is sexual assault, and Democrats want to make it legal.