Karen Stagliano is pregnant … again.
Opinion/Editorial Darrah Ford - April 22, 2010



Karen and her husband John Stagliano are both HIV positive. Karen has been HIV positive since 1998 while John has been since 1997.

They already have a biological nine-year-old daughter when they both knew their HIV status. Luckily the child came through it healthy and wasn’t infected by her parents. No condoms or protection of any kind. Selfishness running amok without a care in the world to the health & safety of their unborn baby. Not only do both parents have HIV, but they both take very powerful drugs that has kept them as healthy as they’ve been throughout all these years.

Now Karen is four months pregnant. You can read about it on her XCritic blog.

John’s obscenity trial starts this summer. Karen’s doctor has put her on temporary bed rest but she plans on flying to be with him this summer when she’ll be six months pregnant. This is an already high-risk pregnancy. But adding flying to it all doesn’t faze anyone.

Who are these doctors that treat women who continue to get pregnant knowing full well their HIV status? Is it the money that makes these “doctors” turn a blind eye to Russian Roulette? Karen and John were extremely lucky that nothing horrific happened to their daughter. Now they want to test fate again and have another child. Children are born everyday addicted to drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. Then you have the other children born with whatever lesser STDs they contracted from their parents. Who are these doctors that keep on approving of Karen Stagliano’s pregnancies? Why does she think she’s entitled to keep on having biological children? Adopt or take in foster children. You have the money to help so many children who desperately need homes. Why would you role the dice again by having another child?

What if John is convicted of all charges and is sent to prison? Karen is then left to raise two children on her own while her husband serves out a prison sentence. Why bring another child into all of this at this time?

Is there some sort of magic pill that wealthy people take that will create healthy babies even though both parents are HIV positive? Because since no one in the Stagliano household is practicing responsibility and using some sort of protection, then maybe someone else can invest in this miracle treatment that will help all the less fortunate children who are born HIV positive every single day in this country and around the world.

I don't understand how Darrah hasn't been killed walking in traffic yet.

The magic is all in the placenta, which keeps the mother's blood separate from the child's, and protects the child from the transmission of illnesses.

Children acquire HIV during the traumatic, blood-soaked natural birthing process. Delivery by elective caesarian section reduces risk of HIV transmission by 2/3.

^^^ I'd have thought a college educated journalist might've heard of the Hippocratic Oath.

I believe they also use a regimen of drugs to massively reduce the chance of HIV being passed on to the child. Apparently the procedure is not that rare or difficult. This has to be one of the most retarded things I've ever read.

Why does she harp on about the use of condoms, how they hell are they supposed to have a kid while using a condom?

You guys are missing the point. It doesn't matter how much you reduce the chance of infection being transferred to a baby. It can happen, that's all that matters.

None of us is getting out of here alive.

I'm halfway tempted to post this over at ADT however,

1. My balls do not set off sparks as they drag along the sidewalk when I walk.

2. The thread would have all the staying power of a bottle rocket before it would get locked/deleted.

Redgoat to the rescue [?]

I have the unique curse of never, ever, ever, ever, ever being wrong when I really want to be.

Darrah Ford - April 23, 2010

No I don’t live in a glass house but I’m not HIV positive and having biological children putting their lives in danger. Last I checked, there is NO CURE. The advancements have made people live longer but there still isn’t a cure. She can adopt or take in foster children.

They are both 12 and 13 years into their HIV status. This could put her body at her age in severe stress mode and add to that the upcoming trial with all that added stress. Stress alone is bad on a baby. But the mother is also HIV positive and both she and her husband take very powerful drugs that has made them live as long as they have and as healthy as they have been.

The trial could also drain them financially. What if John is convicted or pleads out. Then Karen is stuck alone with raising two children, possibly no money to pay for her treatments and raise her two kids.

They got married about a year and a half ago. Now she’s pregnant. Seems like a ploy because of John’s upcoming trial. Someone told me they probably only got married after all these years because if anything happens to him because of the trial, the daughter is finally legal and the money will automatically go to her with Karen overseeing the fund. Now a baby? Maybe a ploy so to tell a judge you can’t put him away because he now has a new baby to take care of. I highly doubt this was John’s idea. His freedom is on the line and he thinks what a great idea it would be to have another child now?

My cousin has Hepatitis and still had a baby. The family also thinks she’s a prostitute because how else could she afford all the drugs she was once on. Her daughter didn’t contract any STDs but she was very late with her speech. She’s 4 now and still can’t talk in full sentences like everyone else in her school. She’s also extremely violent. As I said, she’s only 4. Why can’t she talk normally like all the other kids her age and why is she so extremely violent? The father is now HIV positive but he seems to have contracted HIV after she was born.

I never thought John should be on trial. He’s not Max Hardcore or someone in that field. If they’re going after him of all people, whose next? Steve Hirsch?

I just looked and the thread is completely gone.

Heh...don't be !

Pheww... that was close. Durr-huh said dumb shit and we had to read about it. Here.

Too bad she couldn't respond HERE because I miss all that dumb shit.
Lucky us.

(A)"My cousin has Hepatitis and still had a baby. The family also thinks she’s a prostitute because how else could she afford all the drugs she was once on..."


Yeah, "Cousin."



(B) People still check out ADT?!?!?

^^ B:

Yeah, haven't been there in ages. Maybe twice after the last ban.