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From: marco@ozdaltx.UUCP (Steve Giammarco)
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Subject: Re: Intentional Transmission of AIDS
Keywords: criminal recklessness
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Date: 2 Oct 90 17:45:24 GMT
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In article <39321@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, li40163@prism.gatech.edu (M. AXFORD) writes:
> 
> the Public Health Service).  One of the things we learned is that
> in Georgia one can be prosecuted for reckless conduct if one 
> has unsafe sex knowing one is HIV+.  If convicted there is a jail
> term and fine.
>     Sure, one should take responsibility for one's self.  But I 
> do think people who behave this way should be prosecuted.  It
> totally horrifies me that there are people who care so little 
> they are willing to risk causing someone else's death.
>    I have known at least one case of this kind of behavior.  A
> friend of mine's ex gave him the virus and after they broke up
> my friend knew he was having unprotected sex with others.

I assume no one tied your friend down forcibly (yes... as in "rape")
to consent to sexual activity that would put your friend at high risk
for contracting HIV.  Situations where someone is forced/drugged/etc.
into such activity surely have satisfied most state's legal conditions
to warrant said breach a crime, IMHO.
 
If your friend consented to having unsafe sex with *anybody* (including
an ex-lover, wife, dog, whatever) then he has no one else to blame for
his situation other than himself. Again, this is IMHO.

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