Posted on 10/30/2009 10:15:31 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
President Obama overturned a decades-old policy Friday that he said was "rooted in fear rather than fact," when he announced the lifting of a rule barring HIV-positive people from entering the US.
"Now, we talk about reducing the stigma of this disease -- yet we've treated a visitor living with it as a threat," the President said.
"[W]e are one of only a dozen countries that still bar people [with] HIV from entering our own country. If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it."
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com ...
If it kills Americans, he is for it ... unless you are a murderer, then you get life with bennies.
Even using subtle ways to destroy the country. Pulling out all the stops.
0bama is just protecting our nation.
The list, ping
I don’t understand this (well I do, it’s political). Aids isn’t like polio, which cannot be spread. If you let diseased people into the country, they can spread the disease. I’m not interested in discouraging stigmas. I’m interested in keeping diseases out of the country.
...just last year, the Senate voted to overturn that ban and President George W. Bush signed it into law.
The publication of the rule Monday is the final step in the process. There will then be a 60-day waiting period before the ban is implemented.
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I guess another one of those 8 years of failed policies, eh Odumbo. In any event you’ll use it as an excuse to feed your publicity addiction.
Warped Marxist Mind
If you have active TB, can you enter the country?
Got the Bubonic plague, Yellow Fever, Clapp, dysentary,TB. come on in, we dont want to stigmatise anyone.
We will even give you free Gubmint health care, irregardless of previous existing conditions.
Bring your family and send American dollars back home.
Is this an executive branch decision?
They can't be turned down by ERs right now.
You will see an influx of “visitors” looking for free healthcare.
0bama is owned by his lobbyists.
Headline should read: Obama helps his Constituency.
If you pander to them they will come.
Don’t zombie movies start this way?
Does this mean that Anderson Cooper can come home?
“Obama Announces Lifting of HIV/AIDS Travel Ban”
Just more proof of Bam’s hatred fore the USA!!
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