Demo­c­rat El-Sayed Demand­ed Repeal Of ‘Hate­ful’ HIV Law Requir­ing Dis­clo­sure Before Sex

Michi­gan Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­ate nom­i­nee Abdul El-Sayed once pushed to repeal a law crim­i­nal­iz­ing sex with­out dis­clo­sure of a known HIV infec­tion, deem­ing the law “hate­ful” and “dis­crim­i­na­to­ry.”
“You should not be crim­i­nal­ized for a dis­ease. That is absolute­ly wrong,” El-Sayed said in 2018, dur­ing an unsuc­cess­ful run for Michigan’s gov­er­nor. “It’s hate­ful. It’s dis­crim­i­na­to­ry, and we can, as a state, do bet­ter. You can count on me for that.”
“One of the big things that we have to rec­og­nize about HIV is that no dis­ease can be ille­gal,” he also said. “The con­tin­u­ing for­ward of these laws on the books stig­ma­tize peo­ple with the …