CA State Sen Who Lowered Criminal Penalties for HIV Transmission, Says Lecturing About Sex Won't Stop Monkepox
/But even knowing this information, State Senator Scott Wiener is concerned about the “sex shaming of gay men around monkeypox” and compared it to the shaming of HIV. “Lecturing people not to have sex isn’t a public health strategy. It didn’t stop HIV—it made it worse—& it won’t stop monkeypox. What will work is vaccination, testing & education.”
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“They rolled us,” she explained, after noting that delegates spent thousands of dollars to be there. “I’ve never seen this happen before. I don’t understand why they did it, and I’m extremely disappointed that we do not have any pro-life language.” Though there were many things in the platform Ruzicka approved, she wouldn’t vote for it herself. “I’ve been coming to the convention since 1992, and this is the first time we don’t have a pro-life platform.”