Cenk Uygur
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Lawmakers To Lessen Punishment For Transmitting HIV/AIDs
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February 18, 2017
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6:03Now PlayingLawmakers want to reduce knowingly transmitting HIV/AIDS from a felony to a misdemeanor. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you why they want to make the change. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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“At the height of the AIDS epidemic, California's state government was unified in its response.
The state legislature decided in 1988 that somebody who donated blood while knowingly HIV-positive could be punished with up to six years in prison. Ten years later, it became a felony to have unprotected sex with the intent of transmitting HIV to a partner.
Now, in 2017, a group of Democratic state lawmakers say times have changed - not that those behaviors shouldn't be illegal, but that HIV/AIDS shouldn't be singled out. Under California's newly introduced Senate Bill 239, intentionally transmitting any infectious or communicable disease, including HIV, would be a misdemeanor, not a felony.
"When you tell people that these laws single out HIV and only apply to people with HIV and not any other infectious disease, they pretty quickly see that it's irrational and discriminatory," state Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco who introduced the bill last week, said in an interview.”
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