However, the article is false. No one anywhere is preventing the use of this vaccine. There has been, however, resistance to forcing families to get 11 and 12 year olds vaccinated, particularly since there's a strong indication that all the effect will be lost from the body by the age of 17 or 18 right when unprotected sexual promiscuity might well begin in susceptible young females.
I'd like to see those indications. From the APIC:
An immune challenge study was conducted to determine the presence of immune memory responses. The presence of immune memory is the hallmark of hepatitis B and other long-term protective vaccines. An immune memory response will allow women with low, negligible or non-detectable anti-HPV levels to mount an extremely robust anti-HPV response and abort infections. In the immune challenge study, a dose of GARDASIL® was given to ~240 subjects in the vaccine and placebo groups who had been followed for five years. The results demonstrated that administration of GARDASIL® induced robust immune memory and a strong anamnestic response to HPV 6/11/16/18.
Last month, Merck applied for a supplemental license from FDA with more data on immune memory, evidence it's even more effective against cervical cancer than previously claimed, and evidence that it offers some protection against vaginal and vulvar cancer. The last part isn't a surprise, but they have to wait for data before they can make that claim. HPV causes lots of nasty diseases to people of both sexes, virgins (e.g. RRP) or sexually active people, and the sooner it's approved for wider use the better.
Wiping out debilitating, expensive diseases is a Good Thing. Think of it as a long-term investment, like building an aircraft carrier. It may hurt now, but you'll be grateful you have it a few years from now -- and you'll be grateful we did it ourselves, instead of selling the technology to the Chinese.
Lost knowledge. Before birth control pills and the rest, only bad girls had unmarried sex and they were usually pregnant then married forthwith.
Where is Nancy Pelosi on camera showing her daughter getting the vaccine? Where is the picture of pelosi getting the vaccine to show it is safe?
Why are these public officials so insistant that we experiment for them for a voluntary disease?
Thats utter crap. More young girls will feel "safer" to engage in promiscuous sexual behavior with this shot. If you say no, you've absolutely, completely ignorant of human nature.