By Celia Farber
Mothering Sept./Oct. 1998
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Kris Chmiel is a housewife and mother of two young children, living in Denver. When she was pregnant with her second child, a movement had just gotten under way to test all pregnant women in the state of Colorado for HIV, the virus widely believed to cause AIDS. (Critics remind us that what is tested for is not, in fact, HIV, but antibodies to HIV.) She was perfectly healthy and in her first month of pregnancy. She wasn't worried -- she had been monogamous with her husband for the past nine years. When the test came back "positive," she literally did not believe it.
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