What's so horrible about preventing cervical cancer (HPV vaccine)?

What's so horrible about preventing cervical cancer (HPV vaccine)?Apparently some people in Texas think it's horrible that researchers now have the power to prevent the suffering and death that results from cervical cancer. They think that it will encourage young girls to have sex.

Let me ask you this:

If the risk of

*pregnancy,
*the transmission of a wide variety of sexually transmitted diseases,
*suffering physical pain as a result of losing virginity,
*getting caught by friends or family,
*or having friends and family otherwise finding out

didn't stop teenage girls from having sex, what makes you think that cervical cancer, a disease that is caused by a virus that may or may not be transmitted and may or may not cause cancer decades in the future stop them?

That's like saying it would be more beneficial for society to NOT have an a vaccine for lung cancer because it would encourage people to start smoking.

But why stop there? Why not protest a vaccine for all cancers because it might encourage people to eat Plutonium?

ccguy
Parents should have the right to refuse the vaccine! If a family teaches abstinence, they should not be forced by the government to have a vaccine. All vaccines have associated risks.

cdpaso
It's all about rights......The right to an abortion, whether it be right or wrong. The right to have or have not this vaccine, whether it be right or wrong. This is the USA---it is all about RIGHTS!

xtowgrunt
The debate isn't about preventing cervical cancer, it's about the unknown long term effects of the vaccine. What good is it if it creates the possibilty of a brain tumor 30 years down the road?

wannabahippy
Basically there are a lot of ignorant hypocritical idiots in the world!
I live in Australia, and really dont know of anyone against it!
I am a survivor, of cervical cancer. Just. Its was the worst thing i have ever been through and would not wish it on my worst enemy!
I would never withold this miricale from my daughters!
Wouldent you think that these close minded parents are in a way commiting child abuse?? They are withholding a treatment that could save their daughters lives!!Therefore putting their girls at risk!!
I personally would rather run the chance that my girls will have sex than run the risk of them going through what i did or dying or having a hystorectomy, and not getting the chance of having their own children! How would you ever forgive yourself???I couldent.
I think that the way we raise our girls and the morals we instill in them would have more effect on their behaviour than withholding a life saving immuinisation!
Wow!!!!..........some people hey?

crazyjen
I'm right there with you. It's like telling me to take a million dollars and me going crazy saying that you can't force me to take it. It can only benefit. I am a 19 year old virgin and I would get the vaccine in a heartbeat. Who knows what make come in the future? This vaccine could save millions of lives and it's a shame that some ignorant parents that think their "babies" are innocent are fighting so hard to stop it.

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