I don't think anyone has a 'right' to spread HIV; I don't think rights come into it at all. In that particular case, I didn't think that the criminal courts were the most constructive way of dealing with her. Prosecuting the very few people who do this clearly doesn't stop it happening and there needs to be more research into why it happens at all.
When you have sex with a stranger without taking basic protections to protect yourself, then you are taking full responsibility for contracting HIV. If each women had demanded he have an HIV test, used condoms for 6 months, then demanded another HIV test and only then had unprotected sex only to find out he had somehow forged the test results, I may feel as if he was entirely to blame. They valued the excitement of shagging a big black man from Africa more than their lives and that's what they got.
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Date: 2006-09-14 01:40 pm (UTC)I don't think anyone has a 'right' to spread HIV; I don't think rights come into it at all. In that particular case, I didn't think that the criminal courts were the most constructive way of dealing with her. Prosecuting the very few people who do this clearly doesn't stop it happening and there needs to be more research into why it happens at all.
When you have sex with a stranger without taking basic protections to protect yourself, then you are taking full responsibility for contracting HIV. If each women had demanded he have an HIV test, used condoms for 6 months, then demanded another HIV test and only then had unprotected sex only to find out he had somehow forged the test results, I may feel as if he was entirely to blame. They valued the excitement of shagging a big black man from Africa more than their lives and that's what they got.