[BfloGuy]

I've tried to get worked up over this Gardasil issue and I just can't.

And the idea that a Gardasil vaccination promotes promiscuity defies logic. If the only way you think you can keep your children from having pre-marital sex is by scaring them about diseases and then refusing to inoculate them against those diseases, your parent card should be revoked.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Gardasil stops many prominent strains of HPV, but has not been proven to stop all of them. It still might be possible through indiscriminate sexual behavior to get a cancer-causing strain of HPV in spite of Gardasil. And Gardasil can’t put a condom on anybody’s heart.

Gardasil ought to be something left to the choice of parents, and not used to inflate insurance premiums. No matter how nice or well intended, a nanny state is still a nanny state.

[Niuhuru]

I rather agree; this sort of vaccine should only come up when the kids hit high school and only then after a long and serious discussion and research. There is no way that little kids should get injected while they’re in middle school anyway. Besides, if some FREepers homeschool, their kids won’t be exposed to the dangers of sexual promicuity will they?

[CA Conservative]

If the only way you think you can keep your children from having pre-marital sex is by scaring them about diseases and then refusing to inoculate them against those diseases, your parent card should be revoked.

Well said.