Amazing how many people don't see how simple this all is. Perry, supposedly a conservative, is exceeding the bounds of his constitutional power here, because there is no public health justification for MANDATORY vaccinating against a venereal disease. Mandatory vaccination is an intrusion which can only be justified when an unvaccinated person represents a threat to the public in general; in the case of diseases that are only transmitted sexually, this is only true for rapists, bigamists, and other sexual criminals.
Clarifying my previous post -- I'm all for this vaccination as a voluntary matter for people planning to become sexually active. If I were a virgin about to marry a man who wasn't a virgin, I'd probably get the vaccination because HPV can be completely asymptomatic.
Exactly. The pro-vaccination folks (as if you can vaccinate against cancer - but who needs definitions) don't seem troubled in the least that this was done by fiat w/o any legislative or public input. Very strange, coming from "conservatives."
Btw, you've got a great screen name - wish it weren't such a contradiction in political debate.
Dominum vobiscum.
That's the simple truth.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could go back to the sexual standards of the forties and fifties, where virgin marrying virgin was the rule rather than the exception?