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Illinois law aimed at preventing people with HIV from transmitting the virus has been criticized as unfair and unscientific. Activists are pushing for a full repeal.
Chicago Tribune ^ | Apr 17, 2021 | Nara Schoenberg

Posted on 04/26/2021 2:44:47 PM PDT by fwdude

Cicero police detective John Savage..., who is HIV-positive, was summoned to work early and told he was being charged under an Illinois law that makes it a felony, punishable by up to seven years in prison, for a person carrying the virus to have unprotected sex without first disclosing his HIV status.

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The controversial Illinois law at the center of Savage’s ordeal is now under fire, with HIV advocates, who successfully pushed for changes in 2012, calling for a complete repeal. They cite wide-ranging negative effects of the law, which they say actually undermines HIV prevention by making those at risk more fearful of getting tested.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
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This is insanity on steroids, effectively giving cover to those who would expose others to a deadly disease. And before anyone chimes in that this will only affect homos, combined with the increasingly shortened deferral period for homos to donate blood, this puts everyone at risk.
1 posted on 04/26/2021 2:44:47 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

AIDS is a death sentence

COVID is 99% survivable


2 posted on 04/26/2021 2:45:32 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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Remember the woman who coughed at another person and was arrested and charged for “COVID panic?” By the same “logic,” if the person coughed on didn’t contract coronavirus, there was no crime committed. Right?


3 posted on 04/26/2021 2:46:58 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: fwdude

The perverts...and their admirers...will stop at nothing.


4 posted on 04/26/2021 2:48:10 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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So, we’ve got to wear a useless mask.
But the folks of the back door persuasion do not have to have their pleasure curtailed in any way?
Ah, liberal logic. And they keep trying to call us dumb*sses.


5 posted on 04/26/2021 2:48:30 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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But that was before the fateful morning in March 2013 when Savage, who is HIV-positive, was summoned to work early and told he was being charged under an Illinois law that makes it a felony, punishable by up to seven years in prison, for a person carrying the virus to have unprotected sex without first disclosing his HIV status.

Work?

6 posted on 04/26/2021 2:50:16 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” -James Otis (1761))
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Keep in mind that the case mentioned entailed a faggot reporting another faggot exposing him. Wouldn’t that be a “hate crime?”


7 posted on 04/26/2021 2:50:34 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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You'd think they'd actually like being swabbed in the derriere.
8 posted on 04/26/2021 2:51:27 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi sunt.)
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To: Sooth2222

“Cicero police detective John Savage”


9 posted on 04/26/2021 2:51:33 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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Absolute insanity. I bet Fauci supports it too.


10 posted on 04/26/2021 2:53:34 PM PDT by Skywise
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Bizarre that a disease has its own activists.


11 posted on 04/26/2021 2:54:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Bizarre that a disease has its own activists.

The disease activists and the queer activists are one and the same.

12 posted on 04/26/2021 2:56:29 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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This law, and many like them, were passed because AIDS infected men [99% are men] were DELIBERATELY infecting their lovers / one night stands / glory hole recipients. As clear an act of pre-meditated murder as would be arsenic poisoning over 3 years.

But the treatments [thanks Reagan!] were successful enough to keep an infected person alive 20+ years, so the murder / attempted murder laws were not a good fit. So now the lefties want to go back to allowing someone who KNOWS they carry a deadly infection, spread through sex, to engage in butt sex without informing the catcher. And you [the taxpayer] get to pay for their treatment! Wins all around.


13 posted on 04/26/2021 2:59:48 PM PDT by TonyinLA ( )
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Wouldn’t want to stigmatize the queers, would we...


14 posted on 04/26/2021 2:59:59 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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“Savage’s accuser did not contract HIV, and court documents showed that Savage had been taking medication that is highly effective in blocking transmission of the virus.”

Makes one wonder how the other guy found out then since Savage didn’t go around disclosing his status to people. Might there be more to the story and Savage told him in a sort of vengeful way in a fit of anger?


15 posted on 04/26/2021 3:00:36 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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Different disease, different laws. AIDS was branded a gay disease and the politicians did not want to inconvenience gays. No fascist laws. No mask laws. No lockdowns. Nothing was done to reduce spread by indiscriminate random contact. No gay groups were shut down.


16 posted on 04/26/2021 3:04:24 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Anyone who uppercases black and lowercases White is a filthy biased racist. )
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To: BenLurkin

Activists with participation.


17 posted on 04/26/2021 3:13:42 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMOREz)
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To: I want the USA back

Not ‘branded a gay disease’, just that gay sex is by far the most common and easiest way to infect others. It got the moniker of a “gay disease” because it is almost always transmitted through anal sex [virus contained in semen enters body through fissures torn in rectum caused by act], sometimes by sharing infected needles by heroin addicts, and rarely by normals by blood transfusions [that was fixed with testing].


18 posted on 04/26/2021 3:14:21 PM PDT by TonyinLA ( )
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Queers>>>>>>>. Queens


19 posted on 04/26/2021 3:14:24 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMOREz)
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“controversial”

informed consent should be necessary


20 posted on 04/26/2021 3:14:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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