# "Healthy, Happy, and Hot" - Planned Parenthood Opposes Mandatory HIV Disclosure Before Sex

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**Created:** [April 13, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthy-happy-and-hot-planned-parenthood-opposes-mandatory-hiv-disclosure-before-sex/535958 "2010-04-13T15:51:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthy-happy-and-hot-planned-parenthood-opposes-mandatory-hiv-disclosure-before-sex/535958/150 "2010-04-15T19:33:01Z")

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> [@jayjay](#):
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> I had no idea this was a real incident. Reading the quoted paragraph, my memory siezed on Agatha Christie’s _[The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirror_Crack'd_from_Side_to_Side)_, which fictionalized the Gene Tierney incident and made it a motive for murder. I honestly had no idea it was based on an actual event before this.

Here’s a post from an earlier thread on the subject. Interestingly, several people there also wondered about it being a real event, which produced some cross-pollination with the Snopes message board and the following information:

> [@Gene Tierney, rubella, and the obsessed fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-tierney-rubella-and-the-obsessed-fan/504022/53):
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> I bring progress from the thread on this on the snopes message board. Several people added info but pride of place probably goes to poster **Bonnie** who, as usual, has dug up a very impressive set of cites and makes a compelling case for the story being true, really. Or at least more plausible than I thought previously.
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> [Link to snopes](http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=1013227#post1013227)
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> Some key things discovered:  
> [ul]  
> [li]The story was reported as early as 1958 in Time Magazine and widely reported in 1959 in, amongst other papers, The Washington Post.[/li][li]German Measles quarantining was a regular occurrence in the 1940s and indeed it was something of a raging epidemic.[/li][/ul]
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> The link to the thread contains cites for the above and much more.

So… yep. Horrifying. ☹

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