Quote Originally Posted by hdkbill View Post
Thank God that there are still some Americans who believe in basic human rights, including the right not to be forced to take certain type of medical tests. What's next? Mandatory sterilization? Denial of health care for those determined to be too old and thus of no value to the population any longer? Limits on the amount of children you are allowed to have? Oh gee, and how about this one....let's make sodomy a crime...afterall, it only occurs between degenerate homosexuals. GIVE ME A BREAK!

You want to control HIV and other STD's and other CONTROLLABLE health problems? Then DEMAND that your legislators bring back sex/health education in ALL public school starting in the 6th or 7th grade and make it a mandatory class EVERY year until graduation. AND, DEMAND that the sex educators be permitted to teach how HIV and other STD's are transmitted and how they can be prevented INCLUDING condom use. Currently no school that receives public funding is permitted to teach anything other than abstinence or "JUST SAY NO". This isn't rocket science.

"Forcing" any person to take a medical test or procedure against their will in this country is just plain wrong. It's done in China and Korea...but it should never be done here regardless of the justification.

Bill

Very well put Bill. In Washington state there was a big battle a few years ago about making all doctors report any patient that was hiv+ to turn that information into the state health board.

The problem then, like in this proposal, is when you've got VERY closeted men, or people simply having problems with their sexuality and VERY afraid of something like hiv exposing them (ironic turn around), they would STOP going to the doctor to prevent the dissemination of this info, and thus would not get the medical care they needed and should receive on top of everything else. You drive the disease UNDERGROUND and you start losing control of the spread..the opposite of what the backers of this bill purportedly wants.