The following comes from a December 22 Federalist article by Kimberly Ells:
In a recent interview with Matt Lauer, actor Charlie Sheen disclosed that he is HIV-positive and has been aware of his HIV status for approximately four years. Since Sheen has a well-known sexual legacy and claims to have had sex with 5,000 women, Matt Lauer and the rest of humanity were understandably concerned that Sheen may have infected some of his many partners with HIV over the years.
Lauer asked Sheen pointedly, “Have you, since the time of your diagnosis, told every one of your sexual partners, before you had a sexual encounter, that you were HIV positive?” Sheen said, “Yes, I have.” Lauer: “No exception?” Sheen: “No exception.”
In this exchange, both Lauer and Sheen seem to assume it would be the right thing to inform a potential sexual partner that you are HIV-positive before engaging in sexual activity with him or her. Even if Sheen is not telling the whole truth, he seems to know he should at least publicly insist that he, without exception, told his sexual partners that he was HIV-positive before engaging in sexual activity with them.
Would it surprise you to know that Planned Parenthood disagrees? International Planned Parenthood Federation, of which Planned Parenthood Federation of America is an official affiliate, maintains it is a person’s “human right” not to tell their sexual partners they are HIV positive if they don’t want to.
It’s all laid out in International Planned Parenthood Federation’s booklet for HIV-positive youth entitled “Healthy, Happy and Hot.” It says, “Young people living with HIV have the right to decide if, when, and how to disclose their HIV status.” It continues: “Sharing your HIV status is called disclosure. Your decision about whether to disclose may change with different people and situations. You have the right to decide if, when, and how to disclose your HIV status.”
Planned Parenthood thinks it’s your human right to risk exposing other people to a potentially deadly disease without telling them.
In other words, Planned Parenthood thinks it’s your human right to risk exposing other people to a potentially deadly disease without telling them. Most of the states in the union disagree with Planned Parenthood. Lauer went on to ask Sheen, “What about criminal charges? In 35 states if you or someone who is HIV positive…have sex with someone else without divulging it, you can be charged with a crime.” Sheen said he understands.
But fortunately for him, International Planned Parenthood Federation is working to change that. “Healthy, Happy and Hot” explains, “Some countries have laws that say people living with HIV must tell their sexual partner(s) about their status before having sex, even if they use condoms or only engage in sexual activity with a low risk of giving HIV to someone else. These laws violate the rights of people living with HIV by forcing them to disclose or face the possibility of criminal charges.”
The pamphlet then gives tips to protect oneself from criminalization, and does say that the best way to protect yourself (which is apparently more important than protecting your partner) is to tell your partner that you are infected before you have sex. This section ends with the statement, “Get involved in advocacy to change laws that violate your rights.” It appears that, according to Planned Parenthood, Sheen’s right to have sex trumps his partners’ right to live. That should give him some peace of mind.
I once knew a guy who considered himself a ‘ladies man’ and had many encounters he boasted of. He once let on that he also had an incurable STD and wasn’t telling his partners – and when I found out I confronted him on his behaviors.
His retort was that he hadn’t asked for the STD, and the Woman who passed it along hadn’t told him about it, and as far as he was concerned the more people that got it – the sooner ‘they’ would find a cure for all. Ahem.
STD – ‘sexually transmitted disease’ statistics from Center for Disease Control
https://www.cdc.gov/std/stats/STI-Estimates-Fact-Sheet-Feb-2013.pdf
Why don’t we ever hear homilies on chastity, or celibacy ?
Thanks, MAC. The CDC fact sheet says it all.
Who wrote this garbage? Misquotes and bias… I can hardly believe you people have the gall to claim your misquoted and biased view on the pretense of some pro life slander. These writers and supporters might as well stand on street corners with signs, etc. Your lives will seem to have more purpose when all of you organize and physically get together, hold a couple protests and maybe start getting together with one another weekly. The sooner the better in fact, and please don’t forget to bring the “kool aid”…
What’s your beef, Zak? I can’t tell from your rambling. If you have something concrete and substantive to say, say it, and back it up with clear statistics and carefully crafted arguments. And thanks in advance.
Hiding a Gun from someone about to give another HIV is also a Right. And the Right to kill based upon the ACLU’s notion is not limited to the disease. Bullets can be used to get even.
Um . . . . OK?
Aids is not the only threat for Mutation in to more easily spreadable and treatment resistant STDs, such as this informative link discusses about the last stand against a Venereal Disease that may soon prove completely untreatable – particularly amongst the ‘bug chaser’ subculture driving so much of this.
SEE
https://www.aol.com/article/2015/12/29/drug-resistant-form-of-super-gonorrhea-may-be-untreatable-doc/21289364/
“Drug-resistant form of ‘super-gonorrhea’ may be untreatable, doctors worry…
But only partly undergoing the necessary treatment kills less-resistant bacteria while creating conditions that make it easier for the more resistant bacteria to spread.
‘Glee’ kept the ‘Lynch Mob’ in the tabloids:
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/12/29/former-glee-actor-mark-salling-arrested-possessing-child-porn/?intcmp=hpff
Former “Glee” actor Mark Salling was arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography, according to multiple reports.
“Crime Watch Daily” first reported that the LAPD’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force obtained a warrant for Salling and arrested him Tuesday morning.
Salling is best known for his role as jock-turned-glee cub singer Noah “Puck” Puckerman on “Glee.”
Its called fornication, which is a grievous sin to God. Without remorse to God amendment, and forgiveness from Him, the punishment of hell’s eternal fires are far worse for a wicked soul than spreading the disease which I personally believe is a punishment from God for committing this sin repeatedly, knowing it is wrong.