If you want on or off my Gardasil ping list, please contact me by Freep mail.
Posted on 09/14/2009 11:22:07 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
An adopted teen who has lived in Port St. Joe, Fla. since she was 3 faces possible deportation to England for refusing a vaccination, she and her mother say.
Simone Davis, 17, said she has no need for the vaccine Gardasil, which guards against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus virus, because she is not sexually active, ABC News reported.
But the U.S. government requires female immigrants between the ages of 11 and 26 to receive Gardasil shots before they can become citizens.
Simone was abandoned as a baby in England and adopted at 3 by her paternal grandmother, Jean Davis, who married an American and moved to Port St. Joe, Fla.
Jean Davis started applying for citizenship for Simone nearly 10 years ago, ABC said.
As a devout Christian who has taken a virginity pledge, Simone argues she is in no danger of getting cervical cancer and sees no reason to get the vaccine. American-born girls are encouraged, but not required, to get the vaccine.
Simone and Jean Davis sought a waiver on moral and religious grounds, but were turned down. They have 30 days to appeal the ruling. Without citizenship, Simone can be sent back to England, ABC said.
"I kind of feel like they may be experimenting with immigrants to see how we will react and then give the vaccine to citizens," Simone said. "If it is such a great vaccine, why isn't it mandatory for everyone?"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6178045/Two-thousand-schoolgirls-suffer-suspected-ill-effects-from-cervical-cancer-vaccine.html
We’re supposed to ship out the illegaal immigrants aren’t we?
She applied to be an American citizen 10 YEARS AGO??
Gads. This is just sick. This vaccine wasn’t even around back then.
If you want on or off my Gardasil ping list, please contact me by Freep mail.
More over-reaching by the government-worshippers.
That’s a rather totalitarian regulation. HPV is hardly a highly communicable disease. You have to engage in a specific activity to contract it. It’s not airborne or waterborne nor fatal or crippling. It sounds like payback to Big Pharma for stuffing some D.C. pockets.
Yes. It sounds like corruption.
She refuses to follow the law of the land! Ship the wannabe anchor baby out!
I’d have about 10 million in line before her, though.
I'm accustomed to quick reactionary calls for deportation around here.
Perhaps if her name were Chavez....
Yeah we have to get the one with the non-Euro sounding names 1st!!!...
I didn't see that she had entered illegally, nor did her parents.
She's up against a catch-22 that is, to my mind, probably a pay-off to a campaign contributor for someone somewhere.
I'm for securing the border, but I'm also for treating people like people.
“Perhaps if her name were Chavez....”
Perhaps if there was some evidence she was, in fact, an illegal alien in the first place.
Of course, never let a chance to race-bait go, right?
She refuses to obey the law of the land and is in violation of her right to stay. DEPORT!!!
Violating the terms and conditions of your stay makes you an illegal.
It seems that for the moment she is still here legally, and still has some opportunities for appeal.
The gardasil issue applies to Mexican girls too. They shouldn’t be forced to take it either, its wrong. So, solve the problem for this girl, you’ve solved it for everyone.
I know, I know, you’re trying to make some kind of point. But its wasted on me. I’m the resident mexi-phile here.
Reading comprehension is not one of your strengths.
Cervical cancer isn’t a communicable disease.. Big Pharma got one Hell of a deal.
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