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Certainly your choice to make (I'm not in any way supporting mandatory Gardasil vaccinations). However, we've vaccinated millions of people over almost three generations now and there simply isn't any serious scientific evidence that vaccination is harmful to one's health...I'd say that track record puts Gardasil in a different category than the other things you cite. Certainly medicine isn't perfect, but vaccination has a long and respected track record when it comes to preventing disease.

However, we've vaccinated millions of people over almost three generations now and there simply isn't any serious scientific evidence that vaccination is harmful to one's health...I'd say that track record puts Gardasil in a different category than the other things you cite. Certainly medicine isn't perfect, but vaccination has a long and respected track record when it comes to preventing disease.

In 5 or ten years, when this vaccine has proven itself safe and effective, I'll pay out-of-pocket for my daughter to get jabbed.

Part of my resistance to vaccines comes from a family physician we had several years ago. I wanted to get the chicken pox vaccine for my kids and he was *very* against it.

My daughter contracted measles after being fully vaccinated. Makes me wonder how effective they really are.

My best friend's son had grand mal seizures a few hours after his first shots. The docs convinced her it was a fluke, he recovered and she brought him back for the next round a few months later. Again he seized.

Because there are side effects and consequences to all medical procedures and medications, it should be up to the patient (or their parents) and their doctors to make these decisions. Not politicians.

However, we've vaccinated millions of people over almost three generations now and there simply isn't any serious scientific evidence that vaccination is harmful to one's health.

Not with Gardasil, you haven't. The claim of vaccine-related Guillain-Barre Syndrome certainly has my attention. Good grief, that's why aspirin is no longer used for children but OK for adults. There is something systemically different about a prepubescent child than a young adult. Mass innoculations of millions of pre-teens because a handful seem to be ok after a few years is lunacy! I doubt any of the study girls have entered child-bearing years, let alone had a child, or that child has grown enough for many potential effects to be known. What happens if this turns out to be this generation's DES? You experiment with your kid, not mine.