Women account for two-thirds of HIV-related arrests in Kentucky, report finds

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https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/women-account-two-thirds-hiv-related-arrests-kentucky-report-finds-rcna9418

HIV criminalization laws make the virus's transmission — and sometimes perceived exposure to it — a crime. They can also increase penalties for separate crimes based on a person’s HIV status, the institute, which authored the report, said.

...Virginia reformed a law that makes it a felony to intentionally transmit HIV. Advocates hoped to get the charge for such a crime reduced to a misdemeanor, which didn’t happen, NBC News reported. But the reform legislation that passed does require proof of actual transmission, rather than just exposure. At the time, state Sen. Mark Obenshain, a Republican, told The Washington Post that he found it “stunning that we would want to eliminate the felony for what is potentially fatal, deadly conduct.”

Are you getting this? There are laws that criminalize the transmission of HIV if the person doing the infecting knows they have HIV yet engages in behavior that risks transmitting it. The asshole Republican refers to the transmission of HIV under these conditions as "...potentially fatal, deadly conduct."

But anti-vax, anti-mask fuck-muffins who go out into public unmasked and unvaccinated and pass on Covid and create death to others (recall over 800k have died from Covid in the last 20 months) get off Scott-free. This is yet another case of this white-hot hypocrisy of the other side.

Criminalization of disease transmission: if it's good enough for HIV, it's good enough for Covid. I propose we get a ballot proposition going to fix this.

I can't say it enough - fuck Republicans, conservatives and their supporters. Fuck 'em all, and fuck 'em hard.