Californian Senate votes to make knowingly transmitting AIDS no longer a felony - AKA why Americans fucking hate Cali

http://www.latimes.com/politics/ess...osing-others-to-hiv-1496281754-htmlstory.html

The state Senate on Wednesday voted to no longer make it a felony for someone infected with HIV to knowingly expose others to the disease by having unprotected sex without telling his or her partner about the infection.

The crime would be downgraded to a misdemeanor, and the bill would also apply to people who donate blood or semen without telling the blood or semen bank that they have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, or have tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, the precursor to AIDS.

The measure, which next goes to the Assembly for consideration, was introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who said it is unfair to make HIV/AIDS the only communicable disease given such harsh treatment by prosecutors.

“These laws are irrational and discriminatory,” Wiener told the Senate, adding that the current felony status is “creating an incentive not to be tested, because if you don’t know your status you can’t be guilty of a felony.”

The measure was widely opposed by Republican lawmakers including Sen. Joel Anderson of San Diego. "If you intentionally transmit something that is fundamentally life-threatening to the victim, you should be charged and go to jail," he said.
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Ineedahero said:
It won't? That's good to know, I remember reading about this a while ago when it was first proposed and I am already flabbergasted that the senate went with it at all and didn't tar and feather this Scott Weiner.
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This kind of ludicrous proposal comes out of San Francisco every so often under the banner of LGBT equality but it never goes anywhere. Historically, this stuff has been shutdown because the needs of the overall public is greater than the needs of the LGBT community. We have an obligation to public health and wellness because we are part of the public and thus it affects all of us.
 
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ADN_VIII said:
This kind of ludicrous proposal comes out of San Francisco every so often under the banner of LGBT equality but it never goes anywhere. Historically, this stuff has been shutdown because the needs of the overall public is greater than the needs of the LGBT community. We have an obligation to public health and wellness because we are part of the public and thus it affects all of us.
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Yeah, that's how I figured it would play out, but not knowing much about Californian government, I read that the senate had voted on it and no longer knew what was possible.
 
Ineedahero said:
Yeah, that's how I figured it would play out, but not knowing much about Californian government, I read that the senate had voted on it and no longer knew what was possible.
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It's still in the legislature, having gotten through the Senate committees with some amendments, but the majority vote is still pending.

The sponsor of the bill says that current HIV transmission laws affect women of color the most and reducing the crime to a misdemeanor is less harmful.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB239
 
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People who knowingly spread STDs need to have the book thrown at them, especially those who spread diseases as deadly as AIDS.

Like, can you imagine getting an STD, finding out that the person who gave it to you was fully aware of it, and then being told that it was only a "misdemeanor"?
 
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Cosmos said:
People who knowingly spread STDs need to have the book thrown at them, especially those who spread diseases as deadly as AIDS.

Like, can you imagine getting an STD, finding out that the person who gave it to you was fully aware of it, and then being told that it was only a "misdemeanor"?
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Anyone reasonable would probably be murderously pissed.
 
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