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Conservatives continue to ban needle exchanges in some of the areas with the highest rates of HIV in the US.

• SV_BubbleTime 6y ago
  Source? I tried to find out this but couldn’t. Would help me make a compelling argument to a conservative friend.
  • drewbug01 6y ago
    Particularly relevant given that he's the VP - but Pence notably slow-walked allowing a temporary needle exchange in southern Indiana in 2015 (state law forbade one at the time), and then immediately signed a bill into law that increased criminal penalties for carrying needles without a prescription: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/02/how-mike-pence-made-indianas-hiv-outbreak-worse-118648 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/02/how-mike-p... Taken together, I'd argue that counts. That article also talks a little about background, and links off to other relevant articles that might serve your reading interests.
  • MiroF 6y ago
    I live in DC. We have voted overwhelmingly to fund needle exchanges and have one of the highest rates of HIV in the country. The republican congress intervened into our local budget to prohibit us from allocating any of our local tax dollars to needle exchanges. Apparently they ended this funding ban at some point, but I'm having trouble finding articles on when exactly this was - it seems like it is repeatedly lifted and then reinstituted https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/154047-holmes-norton-says-congress-has-killed-dc-residents-with-needle-exchange-policy https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/154047-holmes-n... e: oh come on! why am i being downvoted?
    • inappropriately 6y ago
      To your edit: the homophobic conservative bigots that infest this site don't want to hear the truth.