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In any event, today Byrne writes

Progressives are spreading the alarm that black women are being disproportionately infected with the AIDS virus. Progressives insist that government intervene on the women's behalf, through mandatory tracing of infected sexual partners.

What's that? Wrong again?

Progressives believe that the tracing is a violation of privacy rights? You mean government should just stand by and let people die?

You mean conservatives, not progressives, correctly predicted 15 years ago that black women were most threatened if government tossed out proven public health measures to prevent the spread of HIV?

Bryne also writes about the pre-marital HIV testing law that Illinois had for about a year. (I spent so much time researching the effects of that law that just thinking about the topic makes me want to pull out the lengthy paper I wrote about it.)

Progressives fight for the right of wives to know when they are "at risk" for getting an HIV infection from their husbands. HIV carriers don't have a right to keep this information secret and infect whomever they choose. Thus, progressive code requires that everyone applying for a marriage license must have an HIV test.

Uh-oh. Can't do that either. Illinois' brief experiment with mandatory HIV testing when applying for a marriage license was junked because of opposition from progressives. It had something to do with individual privacy rights and losing marriage-license revenue to non-testing neighboring states.

Byrne also has some pungent comments about how “progressives” protect the “fetus/unborn baby.”

The column is well worth the time to read it.

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