To some extent that is what the CDC says about cervical cancer. Basically, there is a high risk group for cervical cancer and they are poor, multiple sex partners, and smokers.
I am for limited government programs, but I think it may be worth our money to provide this vaccine to poor women and also offer pap testing.
I just don't want the govt to mandate anything.
As I have young daughters (10), I will wait a few years before we really start deciding about this vaccine. I'd like to see what kind of side effects start surfacing. I figure that I don't really have to worry about it until they are around 16 (when they can drive and have a lot more freedom).
I work with and see a lot of high risk girls. Many from 'normal' homes. Just normal homes with crazy people. If it were me, I'd vaccinate them for everything right down to bedbugs.
"it may be worth our money to provide this vaccine to poor women and also offer pap testing."
That reminded me that I read the minority groups [Hispanic and African American] were more likely to develop cervical cancer than others.
It still bothers me that it's all gender biased. A male's genital warts may not be life threatening to him, but they may be to his next conquest.
Of course having multiple sex partners increases your chances of exposure and thus that of development of disease. Note that those children who have been molested or have started to have sex (unknown to parents) at a very young age, tend to have muliple sex partners, due to confusion. Even observent parents are often the last to know.