1. Criminalizing AIDS
... factors within the transmission of the virus that have to be looked at. The first person to go to court under these laws in Michigan was Jeffrey Hanlon. Hanlon was a gay man who infected another man from Michigan while he was in New York. The American Civil Liberties Union, who agreed to take the case, argued that the AIDS disclosure law ... . They argued that the privacy guaranteed to us in the Constitution applies to the AIDS virus as well. Opponents argued that "they're [those with AIDS] killing people. It's like rape." The maximum sentence Hanlon could have received was four years in...
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