Understand also that because of the rising probability of autism, there is already a growing aversion to vaccines as a whole. So there are many parents out there who resist mandatory vaccination, myself being one of them. When my son was freshly born, the hospital wanted to give him a vaccination for Hepatitis B. It required a strong stand on my part to dissuade them from doing it. But in the end, I found out I still had a free choice. When the state requires that vaccines be received, that choice no longer exists.
(For the record, no vaccines applied during the first six months after birth do any good. The immune system is incapable of producing effective antibodies that early in life).
Although those diseaes are "behaviorally obtained," it's not necessarily true that everyone who gets them has done so through improper behavior. For example, a young woman who's a virgin marries a man who isn't, the man having acqired HPV from another woman, and that man gives the HPV to his innocent bride. The bride would have been a lot better off with the vaccination than without it.
So why didn't Michele or Sarah do anything about the mandatory vaccinations required by each of their states for Hep-B when they were in state government? Hep-B is behaviorally obtained, primarily through sex and IV drug use, yet both Alaska and Minnesota mandate these vaccinations for infants and toddlers. If they are so adamantly against forcing vaccinations for sexually transmitted diseases, why didn't they say anything about that when they could have affected that situation.
For them to ignore that vaccination mandate and focus on this one smacks of crass political posturing, not true concern based on conservative principles.
When my son was freshly born, the hospital wanted to give him a vaccination for Hepatitis B. It required a strong stand on my part to dissuade them from doing it. But in the end, I found out I still had a free choice. When the state requires that vaccines be received, that choice no longer exists.
In other words, it was a mandatory vaccine with an opt-out, although apparently a more difficult opt-out to exercise than the Texas one. It was actually easier for parents to choose not to vaccinate their daughters against HPV than it was for you to choose not to vaccinate your child against Hep-B.
Read more about HPV transmission please. The “behaviors” needed to obtain HPV are not all sexual.
Except in Texas and some other states. In 2003, Texas Legislature along with Governor Perry modified our process so that a parent could opt out of any (or all) vaccine and do it solely for personal choice. It was no longer required to be a religious or medical reason.
“Here is what’s different about the HPV vaccine. Diseases like HPV, HIV, and hepatitis are behaviorally obtained. The only way you are going to get them is by choice of actions.”
In a world without date-rape and the strong-arm variety of rape, that might be true. We don’t live in that world, in case you hadn’t noticed.
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...many infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria, and parasites, can be transmitted through blood transfusion. Well-recognized viruses include hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis D virus (HDV), hepatitis G virus/GB-C virus (HGV/GBV-C), human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 (HIV-1/2), human T-cell lymphotropic virus types I and II (HTLV-I/II), cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), TT virus (TTV), human herpesvirus type 6 (HHV-6), SEN virus (SEN-V), and human parvovirus (HPV-B19). http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/hcai-iamss/tti-it/risks-eng.php