Which Way, L.A.?
Giving HIV = crime?
Should it be a crime to knowingly expose your partner to HIV? Is giving someone AIDS murder? Should it be? The California Assembly has been grappling with these questions as it amends and re-amends a pending bill. We will hear from the bill's author, his opponents and the people whose lives it directly affects.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readSTEVE MUNIE: Deputy District of Amador County. He attempted to prosecute an HIV+ man who intentionally exposed several women to AIDS. He worked with Senator Rainey in authoring the SB 705 bill HOWELL SIMMS: Executive Director of Santa Monica AIDS Project, an agency serving people with AIDS and people at risk of AIDS SENATOR RICHARD RAINEY: Republican Senator who authored Senate Bill 705 TAYLOR FLINN: Staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, specializes in rights of lesbians and homosexuals and people with HIV and AIDS JUDY WATERSON: A California resident who's case inspired Senator Rainey's bill DR. MICHAEL STEIN: Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University School of Medicine and director of HIV activities at Rhode Island Hospital AMY PYLE: Education writer for the Los Angeles Times MARION PACK: Media coordinator for Ward Valley
