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Main Forums => Living With HIV => Topic started by: Dan0 on May 12, 2014, 06:34:34 pm
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This is an interesting update from the Huffington Post that breaks down current laws in basic charts! Some of the more 'liberal' states having such laws were surprising.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/12/hiv-criminal-transmission_n_5297065.html
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I'm confused by one paragraph in that article:
Five states (Arkansas, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and Washington) allow a maximum sentence of more than 20 years in prison.
Yet according to the charts, Washington isnt listed as a state with HIV criminalization laws. thoughts?
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I'm confused by one paragraph in that article:
Five states (Arkansas, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and Washington) allow a maximum sentence of more than 20 years in prison.
Yet according to the charts, Washington isnt listed as a state with HIV criminalization laws. thoughts?
I think their chart is off. Later they saw WA was one if the first States with HIV laws on the books. This page shows biting/spitting/blood exposure is covered under the law in addition to STD laws.
http://www.hivlawandpolicy.org/states/washington
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We should probably stick with pinching and hair pulling until the chart is sorted out, so no biting or spitting until further notice .
Its sad how stigma trumps the facts and you can actually do time for doing something that could never result in a transmission .
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I just wrote my state senator and 2 legislative representatives. I hope everyone else does the same. These laws royally piss me off.
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all i'm sayin, if i could kill just by spitting on someone, there'd be alot of dead folks