This Can't Be Made Up: Tattoos for HIV Victims

Adam Pagnucco of Maryland Politics Watch blogs that a Republican candidate for the House of Delegates from the district based in Hagerstown advocates that before receiving medication should have themselves tattooed. The tattoo, he says, should make their status clear to the world:

The HIV tattoo would, however, help to prevent the spread of infection by people who know that they are infected, but who choose not to curb their behavior, putting their partners at risk. It would be a 100 percent unmistakable sign allowing all parties involved to make an informed decision.

He explains his position in a 2005 letter to the editor of The Herald-Mail.

Didn't the Nazis do something like this once? Just sayin'