Posted on 10/09/2006 4:42:37 PM PDT by MrNationalist
Girls as young as 11 should receive compulsory vaccinations against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, according to an influential medical journal.
The Lancet published an editorial calling for compulsory jabs for 11- and 12-year-olds despite fears that they could encourage under-age sex.
The Sunday Telegraph revealed last month that ministers have commissioned secret research into parental attitudes towards a concerted vaccination programme in primary schools.
Last week the European Commission gave the go-ahead for the anti-cancer vaccine Gardasil to be used in EU member states.
The licence allows the vaccine to be given to children aged nine to 15, and women aged 16 to 26.
Gardasil offers protection against human papillomavirus (HPV), a virus spread by sexual intercourse that can trigger cervical cancer.
About 3,000 cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed in women in Britain each year, more than a third of which are fatal. The majority result from infection by HPV.
The Lancet said Europe should take its lead from the US state of Michigan, which passed a bill on Sept 21 ruling that all 11 to 12-year-old girls must be immunised.
The journal said there was growing support for the vaccination of both boys and girls, since men can carry HPV.
Studies have shown that female-only vaccination would be only 60-75 per cent as effective at reducing HPV prevalence in women as strategies targeting both sexes.
Wow. Missed that one in the news.
If it's a more effective preventative when administered to both sexes, then why not immunize everyone? Not to be "gender-biased" but don't men usually have more sex partners? Or is everyone equally slutty nowadays?
I do think it's sad a child that young would be in danger of an STD.
Good thing I don't live in Michigan because my two girls(7 & 9) will NOT get this vaccination. Nanny state can kiss my a$$.
The reason that they immunize young girls (9-15) isn't because they are in danger of getting an STD. The immunization is the most effective before a girl becomes sexually active, so they have chosen this age range as the best age for a girl to become immunized.
If a woman can 'choose' not to have a baby, why can't the parents be left to 'choose' which/if vaccinations for their child? Whats with the State mandating all these vaccinations?! I don't see this as important as smallpox, measles, etc.
I feel the same way. I can see Nanny State declaring a parent unfit because of refusal to vaccinate for this.
Very good point. The fact is many more males than females get the disease. That is the reason it is not a reportable disease, fear that homosexuals will be offended and discriminated against. Why they refuse to acknowledge that fact I don't know. Nothing can be accomplished until it is. As a medical professional it is amazing the lengths that we are required to go to preventing identity of those who have it from being known.
Exactly my point- you're only in danger of STD if sexually active- to go that young obviously implies sexually activity close to that age.
HPV is related to other types of cancer, including mouth. It is not exclusively an STD. If you have ever had a wart, be it on your nose or your scroat, you have it. While everyone should be vaccinated against it, the correlation between HPV and cervical cancer is by far the highest. Ladies first.
We need a constitutional amendment to end compulsions and prohibitions for "health".
Why limit the compulsion to 11 and 12-year-olds when those at immediate risk and with whom there would be an immediate health benefit are older? Because if they ordered 26-year-olds to get shots, they would be able to resist and do it publicly, which would encourage younger people and parents to do so. The state knows it can only force 11 and 12-year-olds and their limited number of parents at any given time. They didn't mandate boys because they would resist getting a "girl's vaccine".
Not true. I would consider the vaccine for my children in the event they were sexually abused or raped.
I stand corrected- my first thought was just for childhood- which seems to have all but disappeared these days, and not to anyone's benefit.
But, if that's the thinking, why not simply add this vaccine to the roster of childhood vaccinations given much earlier (barring medical reasons)?
Is there a vaccine against Liberalism? If we had that, the vaccines against sex viruses and Hepatitis would be unneccessary.
Because the vaccine causes your daughter to ask questions you will be compelled to answer, and the left will have successfully bypassed your gatekeeper role as a parent, and forced on your child the early immersion into their culture of decadence.
I've never heard of anything so prudish in my life...You would deny your daughter a vaccination that could one day save her life because you don't believe that one time during her life she might make a mistake??? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME???
I believe they changed it to be voluntary. I sure don't want all the little girls of Michigan to be guinea pigs.
Like my previous post, if a woman can 'choose' to have a baby or not, why can't a parent 'choose' vaccinations for their child? Why should parents HAVE to give up their children's health to the State? Does the State have more knowledge than a parent? Who pays the States salaries anyway? Hmm?
Chill out and tone down the melodrama. At no point did I say I would deny my daughter a vaccination. (Nevermind that at 18 a woman could choose on her own whether to get the vaccination).
ALL I did was bemoan the thought of children being sexually active at such a young age.
And, if you'd bothered to really read my posts you would have seen that.
Yea, yea, my Dr wanted me to do HRT therapy too. I told him when they had a pill that could do something about the hair in my husband's ears and nose I would consider it. And look where that went! I would not agree to this either. If someone else wants to be the guinea pigs for years before they come out with the real results, so be it.
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