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$$.
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.
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".
Is there a vaccine against Liberalism? If we had that, the vaccines against sex viruses and Hepatitis would be unneccessary.
I believe they changed it to be voluntary. I sure don't want all the little girls of Michigan to be guinea pigs.
Before I get to the point, I am positive in regard to this vaccine, my potential female children will be getting it. Cervical cancer is a nasty thing, and I'm finding it difficult to be against something that prevents cancer.
As some other commenters have been saying, you might remain virginal until your wedding night and still get this from your husband, who wasn't.
Anyhow, my point:
If you take a 8-12 year old in for a vaccination, you do not have to tell them "this is a vaccination for a sexually transmitted virus but this doesn't mean you can have sex blah blah blah."
No you say, "You're going to have a shot, sit still."
Unless our daughters are born with psychic powers, how are they even going to be exposed to the sex debate part of it?
I wonder if someone knowing they are vaccinated vs. HPV,
will behave in more sexually risky behaviour, leading to
a pandemic which we don't have a vaccine for, such as
HIV, or who knows what.
What other little living/non-living baddie is still being
harbored in those animals, in its incubation phase, ready
to pounce on the unsuspecting transmission vectors(humans)?
Time and behaviour will tell.
I won't buy the first year of a new car model, and I wouldn't get myself or my kids a new vaccine. There have been vaccines pulled from the market for bad side effects, and others that probably should be.