Re: Uninsurable because she was raped..... Originally Posted by sharpeimom
What I see and, what I think most of us are aware of, is that old rape consequences and ideologies have never quite gone away. That she should and must be repeatedly tested for HIV (among other diseases) for periods of time ranging from months to the remainder of her life are a direct result of the rape.
That is medically incorrect.
Every sexually transmitted disease has a KNOWN incubation period and we have a test for every single one of them, with the exception of HPV and it would be impossible for you to know if you got that from a rape or not. Other than HPV....Not a single one of them require "years" before they can be tested for.
You do not have to be tested for the "rest of your life" for herpes, HIV, or anything else.
If you had a physician that is telling you that, then my advice is to find another one.
It is very, very important that people read the arrticle very, very carefully....people are reading the rape and not reading the details of what the article did NOT say, which was made clear in my previous post.
As traumatic as rape is, as horrible as they can be....it doesn't give one unique medical access different from anyone else.
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