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.

 

[cuddle striker]

I'm more a fan of the old cascadian exit movement. we'd take part of norcal of course but the ports wouldn't be affected. more likely to succeed that way...

HIV isn't a death sentence anymore though. May as well start charging people with herpes a felony. but then again it's not such a bad idea to include other diseases like measles, chicken pox, mumps.

it might up the state's vaccination rate. if you can logically connect this to that, somehow, you could get anti vaxxers locked up with people who want to spread their diseases. that would be pretty good.