By doing this, Africans stand a better chance of not passing the virus to their unborn children. The ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, thinks mandatory testing will ward off women and their children to seek help about the virus. Mandatory HIV testing of pregnant women and newborn babies would deter many women from seeking health care for themselves and their infants. Furthermore, ACLU argues, mandatory testing of these individuals would violate there constitutional right to privacy. Sometimes women feel uncomfortable getting tested for HIV and might do anything to get out of the testing.
Women feel uncomfortable because they feel it's they're right to decide what kind of testing to get.
Usually women have a harder time dealing with the fact of contracting the virus and want to shut the image out of their minds. If the testing was mandatory, women would have no rights at all to decided whether to take the tests. African women might lie about the status and nothing will be done to prevent the virus from being spread. If women can voluntarily get tested and counseled, African women will be keener to participate for the well being of themselves and their children. Women may react differently once they've seen others trying to get help.