Yeah, whatever.
If this wasn't a vaccine for a sexually-transmitted disease, it would be a non-issue, just like the MMR shots.
MMR shots have come under close scrutiny in recent years.
Measles mumps and rubella are not as terrible as Autism.
Yeah ,whatever sums up nicely your attitude towards Texas school children.
The pharmaceutical company should be required to at least pay the parents for using their children as test subjects.
Then again, they would have the money to do such a thing.
No kidding.
That may be true for some who are opposing it. But I do not believe the government should be able to require a vaccine for any disease that one cannot get 'innocently' i.e. by breathing the same air as a carrier or touching a surface that a carrier has touched.
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.