Tom Coburn: “Right. And today we do the exact same thing on syphilis. Let me put forward to the gentleman that, number one, do we…”

“Right. And today we do the exact same thing on syphilis. Let me put forward to the gentleman that, number one, do we serve society's greater good if in fact we limit the spread of the disease; number two, do we serve the victim's greater good; and, number three, if in fact all those individuals that the gentleman mentioned are professional, they can be held in conduct claims against their own professionalism if in fact they divulge it. The final point I would make in terms of the gentleman's argument is that it should be exposed. If somebody, in law, has violated somebody else and has given them a disease, one of the things we do when one is convicted of a felony is they lose certain rights.”