Assemblywoman Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas is urging her colleagues to help the invoice.
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A Queens pol says she plans to push a invoice that might not make it a criminal offense in New York for AIDS sufferers and others with recognized sexually transmitted ailments to have intercourse with others.
“This archaic a part of New York’s Public Well being Legislation belongs within the trash heap of historical past, and I urge my colleagues in Albany to help this invoice within the upcoming legislative session,” stated Democratic Assemblywoman Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas Thursday on World AIDS Day as she introduced plans to attempt to repeal the 76-year-old regulation.
“New Yorkers residing with HIV … already face limitations to accessing the care and help they want, and criminalizing them for sexual habits solely perpetuates racial inequities and stigma fairly than fight transmission,” she added in an announcement.
The invoice has but to be launched however is already getting pushback.
“The final time I checked HIV remains to be a transmissible illness,” Assemblyman Jarett Gandolfo (R-Lengthy Island) informed The Submit Saturday. “Frequent sense dictates that the individual you’re [having sex with] ought to know in case you are HIV-positive, to allow them to determine if they're comfy with it.”
Underneath present regulation, an individual with a recognized STD will be charged with a misdemeanor for having intercourse with one other individual and spend as much as a 12 months behind bars.
The state statute doesn’t particularly tackle circumstances the place individuals with STDs disclose their medical standing to companions or use safety. Nonetheless, disclosing medical historical past first sometimes is sufficient to negate prison legal responsibility.
Since 2014, a minimum of 12 states have repealed or amended HIV criminalization legal guidelines.
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