Unlike MMR, HPV is not transmitted through the air. There is, therefore, no need to immunize almost everyone to protect the general population, unlike other vaccines. Moreover, Cervical cancer is quite uncommon in the U.S. (although it's more common elsewhere). There are about 10,000 cases a year here, out of a population of about 120 million women--less than 1/10th of 1 percent. Of those 10,000 cases, there are 4,000 deaths, most of which could have been prevented by annual pap smears.
It's not just crazed "fundamentalists" who should object to the state mandating this new vaccine for 11 and 12 year-old girls--especially a mandate imposed by the governor, without input from the legislature or citizenry, at the behest of the vaccine's manufacturer. Every conservative should be able to see how intrusive and obnoxious this deal is.
On Saturday morning, on liberal KGO radio in very liberal San Francisco, their health person (Jody Cragins) was on talking about this vaccine. She thought it was bad idea to give it to young girls before it had been thoroughly tested. She thought it was bad to mandate it.
If a liberal is against it, that's pretty crazy.