Posted on 02/09/2007 11:44:19 AM PST by Froufrou
Children of God for Life is urging West Virginia lawmakers to scrap HB 2835 mandating Merck's new Gardasil HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine.
Following last week' hotly debated Executive Order by Governor Perry to mandate Gardasil in Texas, West Virginia is the latest of at least two dozen states proposing to add the controversial vaccine as a requirement for school attendance. However, unlike Texas and 48 other states including DC, which have laws allowing parents to opt-out, WVA and Mississippi are the only two States that do not provide religious or philosophical exemptions for vaccines.
"It is utterly disgraceful that WVA would force this vaccine on families, especially when their State law provides no relief to those who object to other vaccines," stated Children of God for Life Executive Director, Debi Vinnedge. "Even if they include an opt-out for Gardasil, such a move would be unconstitutional for parents who have religious objections to other vaccines, such as those using aborted fetal cell lines."
While Gardasil does not utilize aborted fetal cell lines – a primary focus of Children of God for Life, the group noted it raises other moral concerns. And they are not alone. Since Perry's actions last week, numerous family and medical groups agree that this is a family decision for the parents – not the State.
In a statement released Jan 22, the American College of Pediatrics noted that mandating Gardasil for school attendance "is a serious, precedent-setting action" replacing parental medical decision making with government regulations.
Likewise, Focus on the Family warned last year, that state officials, not parents, would become the primary sexual-health decision makers for America's children.
Vinnedge noted, "Mandating Gardasil is like the State mandating condoms for children. And neither one is effective at preventing cervical cancer. The HPV virus's incubation period is 20 years, yet this vaccine was tested for only 4 years. No one knows whether this will prevent cervical cancer at all."
Last year the Associated Press reported the FDA warning that, "any advantage the vaccine provides in protecting against the four virus types could be offset by infection by any of the multiple [over 100] other types of HPV that the vaccine does not cover." The FDA further noted that "the vaccine may lead to an increased number of cases of a cancer precursor among patients already infected by any of the four virus types at the time they receive the vaccine, and whose immune systems have not cleared the virus from their bodies."
"West Virginia is already a quagmire of contention in their antiquated State regulations on vaccines," noted Vinnedge. "If they intend to mandate Gardasil, they must provide an opt-out clause and add religious exemptions for other vaccines as well. Anything less would be a gross infringement on parental rights."
They will not be happy until every pocket is lined.
The time between getting HPV and developing cervical cancer is up to 20 years.
I'll be sure to contact my assemblyman.
You should go on some of the threads about vaccines and autism.
Or how about freepers that think too many kids are on ritalin.
Many freepers are concerned about the safety of drugs and vaccines on our children, and it has nothing to do with sex.
This is worse. It's lives at stake now.
And I just realized they're doing this on girls 9 to 11.
911. Funny coincidence. And I do know it's a coincidence, it's just a very interesting one.
Ping to post 121.
And I just realized they're doing this on girls 9 to 11.
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9 year olds are 3rd graders
You would be wrong. It is most effective before girls are sexually active.
However, one of the side effects is painful periods so they want young girls to get the vaccine early so they don't get the painful periods.
You're right. I might be thinking of Scotland, sorry.
It is approved for 9 year olds though, and people are pushing for it to be done that early because they probably haven't had sex yet, which makes it the safest. 11 is the next big number being pushed, that's probably where I'm getting 9-11 from (that's what I get for posting at 2 am).
First of all, I respect your opinion that girls should be vaccinated against their will because Big Brother knows better, but I disagree. There are plenty of people alive today who wish they never had been vaccinated.
Do you read minds, and that is how you know parents aren't concerned about the health of their children? Because I've met some very religious people, and none of them have wavered in doing what they felt was best for the health of their children.
So why not refrain from spending all that unnecessary money on the vaccine for girls when all that needs to be done is a regular pap smear, not a 600 dollar vaccine?
And considering the vaccine's track record, that's just what could happen if they are forced to get it. So it's OK for the government to hurt other people's children?
If it is hurting your children to disagree that the government knows best about what undertested substance to stick into their bodies, then I shall be a proud child abuser.
Of course these were short studies, so autoimmune diseases
and cancer caused by the vaccine could not assessed.
"Don't let the side effects get in the way of our profits."
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