Can This Be True?

California has passed a law to make it no longer a crime to intentionally pass on HIV to someone else.  To be clear, an unintentional situation that resulted in an HIV infection was never criminal, but until now if someone who knows he or she is infected with HIV intentionally had unprotected sex or donated to a blood bank, it was a crime.  That is no longer true.

One really has to wonder how California could decriminalize a person who knows he or she has HIV giving blood to a blood bank.  Are all blood recipients now to be potentially exposed to HIV so as not to hurt the feelings of those already infected?  That's like ending DUI laws so as not to hurt the feelings of those with drinking problems.  It's like ending laws against theft so as not to hurt those who are kleptomaniacs.  It's crazy.

I'm not at all surprised that someone in California would propose such a law.  After all, California is one of the epicenters of political correctness.  I am, however, flabbergasted that the California legislature would actually enact such a law.  They are knowingly putting millions of innocent people at risk for HIV for no reason other than political correctness.  Shouldn't people's lives count for more than the feelings of those already infected?

I find it hard to believe that this story is true even though I see it reported.