No, it doesn’t. What part of personal responsibility do you not understand?
When I contracted polio there was no widely available vaccine. When my brother was born there was. My parents found out all they could about it and decided to vaccinate. They also paid for the vaccine with their own money. We also went without a television in our home until I was 15 if that gives you a hint about priorities. That was a personally responsible choice that protected not only their children but those they came in contact with. Polio was a communicable disease in that it could be contracted simply through contact with those who carried the virus. HPV is not communicable in the same way. It is contracted by an activity that is a personal choice.
Please don’t come back to me about the costs bla, bla, bla. The same people who go to the government (read other people to pay for their responsibilities) also have luxuries in their home that many of us who took responsibilities for ourselves went without.
You lived in a different world back then, Cynic, when a doctor visit didn’t necessitate insurance. I’m all about personal responsibility and I have some news for you. If Rick Perry hadn’t brought this Gardasil vaccine to the public’s attention, no one would know about it and girls would be at risk — without ever knowing there was a vaccine — for cervical cancer. Spin away!