Angel of Death, At Your Cervix
My gears are really grinding over this one.
Bad News: Deaths from cervical cancer could jump fourfold by 2050 to a million per year.
Good news: Vaccines for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) are on the verge of FDA approval, which would prevent many of those cases of cervical cancer.
Bad news: There are religious groups in the USA preparing to oppose vaccination.
No, you didn't just go insane; you read that right.
Because the vaccine is most effective before a girl becomes sexually active, it needs to be administered before puberty. Say, age 11 to 13. These folks have gotten it into their heads that vaccinating girls will give them a license to have sex.
They oppose premarital sex. And, apparently they consider cervical cancer to be their freaking ally in that fight! This makes me extremely angry. A disease is not your friend. It doesn't care who it kills.
It's no different than opposing the capture of a serial killer because you think the threat of this guy will help you sell a few Bibles.
Luckily, the vast majority of parents favor vaccination. I imagine that I don't know anyone who would agree with these people. I'm not sure I'd want to meet anyone who'd side with a disease like this.
Of course, the lunatics referenced above are part of the Family Research Council. Affiliated with James Dobson. And Focus on the Family.
Whenever you think of these people, whenever you hear about the latest drivel these people are spewing, please remember this story and the fate they would like to befall those who disagree with them.
And think about how blatantly misogynistic their views are. The evidence shows that the abstinence programs they promote don't work. It is women who suffer from their twisted efforts, and their teaming-up with the woman-killing cervical cancer is perhaps the most dramatic example.
Any base level of respect I had before for people in these groups is now long gone. This is beneath contempt.
Hat tip to Hunter at Random for making my blood boil.
Bad News: Deaths from cervical cancer could jump fourfold by 2050 to a million per year.
Good news: Vaccines for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) are on the verge of FDA approval, which would prevent many of those cases of cervical cancer.
Bad news: There are religious groups in the USA preparing to oppose vaccination.
No, you didn't just go insane; you read that right.
"Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex," Maher claims, though it is arguable how many young women have even heard of the virus.
Because the vaccine is most effective before a girl becomes sexually active, it needs to be administered before puberty. Say, age 11 to 13. These folks have gotten it into their heads that vaccinating girls will give them a license to have sex.
They oppose premarital sex. And, apparently they consider cervical cancer to be their freaking ally in that fight! This makes me extremely angry. A disease is not your friend. It doesn't care who it kills.
It's no different than opposing the capture of a serial killer because you think the threat of this guy will help you sell a few Bibles.
Luckily, the vast majority of parents favor vaccination. I imagine that I don't know anyone who would agree with these people. I'm not sure I'd want to meet anyone who'd side with a disease like this.
Of course, the lunatics referenced above are part of the Family Research Council. Affiliated with James Dobson. And Focus on the Family.
Whenever you think of these people, whenever you hear about the latest drivel these people are spewing, please remember this story and the fate they would like to befall those who disagree with them.
And think about how blatantly misogynistic their views are. The evidence shows that the abstinence programs they promote don't work. It is women who suffer from their twisted efforts, and their teaming-up with the woman-killing cervical cancer is perhaps the most dramatic example.
Any base level of respect I had before for people in these groups is now long gone. This is beneath contempt.
Hat tip to Hunter at Random for making my blood boil.
posted by Dr. Momentum at 5/18/2006 02:25:00 AM
4 Comments:
This has been circulating for awhile. It irritated the heck out of me the first time I heard about it too. The FRC is *insane*. Those who believe and regurgitate it's blather are likewise *insane*.
Yep. Pretty much batshit crazy. To use the technical term.
I heard about this a while back. It's laughable that they think that HPV is a significant deterrent to premarital sex, especially compared with the better-known risks of herpes, HIV, and other social diseases. Not to mention unwanted pregnancy.
Since these people are already opposed to anything that would help prevent any of those, it's no surprise that they'd oppose anti-HPV innoculations. But it does surprise me that they're SO out of touch with reality that they'd think that HPV is comparable in terms of whether hormone-crazed teens are worried about it.
Julie, you hit the nail on the head with HIV. These are the same types of people who see HIV as "God's" way of punishing sinners.
Never underestimate the power of stupidity or narrow-mindedness.
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