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To: exDemMom
If one of your girls later gets HPV and has to undergo the extremely painful colposcopy and removal of part of her cervix, will you disown her for her obviously immoral behavior in getting this disease?

Gee, the misogyny here is so thick, you need a chain saw to get through it.

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No, it isn't. The fact is that not everyone believes that this vaccine has no ill effects. That doesn't make them misogynistic.

86 posted on 08/10/2014 12:35:12 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
No, it isn't. The fact is that not everyone believes that this vaccine has no ill effects. That doesn't make them misogynistic.

The side effects of the vaccine are well known--injection site pain and swelling, and sometimes headaches, all self-limiting. Beyond that, all I see is the usual anti-vax fear-mongering, much of which consists of drastically overstating the significance of the stock vaccine side-effects list. These side effects are trivial when compared to the effects of dysplasia or cancer.

The fact is, contrary to anti-vax fear-monger claims, that vaccines undergo at least a decade of rigorous testing in thousands of subjects before the FDA will even consider approving them for market. And even after approval, the FDA requires companies to continue to collect safety and efficacy data (i.e. phase 4 trials). The FDA has no compunctions about pulling products over safety concerns even after they have been marketed (ever hear of Vioxx?).

The misogyny enters the picture because apparently, some people are obsessed with the fact that girls might one day lose their virginity--but they state no similar concern over boys--they don't even mention boys. Often, what remains unsaid is at least as important as what is said.

107 posted on 08/11/2014 4:20:31 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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