The truth is, there could be a cure tomorrow and there will still be millions of HIV positive people or people living with HIV in the world who have to deal with HIV criminalization, HIV stigma, the "Viral Divide" — all the complex social questions that pharmaceutical interventions have no power over.
Mr. Cooper asserts that Mr. Olson is stretching the scope of the Lawrence decision, pointing out that it dealt with the criminalization of private sexual behavior, not a state's duty to recognize a marriage.
Americans' dissatisfaction with the criminalization of cannabis has reached a tipping point.
Furthermore, with the criminalization of poverty and homelessness, homeless Black veterans are further marginalized by society.
With escalating criminalization came increasingly high bail prices and an increasingly aggressive bail bond industry that entangled families in webs of debt and exploitation.
These leaders are courageously traveling to speak out publicly about their daily work to bring life and healing to a community fraught with violence, criminalization, and loss, despite the rejection, and violence they have personally faced.
A recent editorial of The Guardian, the British standard bearer of the European progressiveness, gives an interesting insight into the increasing difficulties that progressives have with justifying criminalization of sex work.
But even if women were harmed by sex work - and by the work itself rather than by the conditions and stigma associated with its criminalization - it would still constitute a matter of self-harm - forced sex work is always illegal, as it constitutes rape not sex.
With the criminalization of same sex relationships in the same country, there was a substantial reduction in the provision of services by health workers and the uptake of these services.
As a first step, commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents should be categorized as a crime, with rehabilitation (not criminalization) assured for the children involved, with the police and the judicial power assigned sufficient funds to prosecute the pimps and perpetrators.
