If this can prevent cancer...
This is a BIG IF...
And even if it does prevent cancer, no one is denying the increase in teen sex that follow.
Not to mention the huge uprise in illnesses that were linked to it. The vaccine was banned in quite a few states due to the fact that so many girls got sick after getting the shot.
Also this is only one form of cancer and it doesn't prevent all forms of it as well. How many women will no longer get pelvic exams because they think they are safe?
“And even if it does prevent cancer, no one is denying the increase in teen sex that follow. “
I think thats garbage. Kids have always and will always have sex and they also don’t think about long-term low probability things like cancer when they do.
OK, so wait a minute...
If they find a vaccine for HIV tomorrow, and it is proven to prevent the disease, you would not give it to your children?
So fear of disease is the only thing to prevent kids from having sex? Therefore we should not find cures for disease....is that what you are saying?
Yeah, because the thought of potentially getting cervical cancer umpteen years down the road is so much more powerful than an unplanned pregnacy, AIDS, herpes, syphilis, etc.
Get real here, the vaccine might save lives. If you have information that it is not safe, post it.
Otherwise, pull your head out of the sand long enough to realize that the availability of a vaccine which could prevent a horrible disease that pretty much every kid has no clue about has virtually no influence on the decisions that kids make.
The best approach is to teach kids that a meaninful monogomous relationship is not only important from a disease perspective, but more importantly, the most rewarding relationship they will have.
I have 4 daughters. Two teens, one almost 18 and one 16. Another who is almost 13 and one who is almost 11.
“no one is denying the increase in teen sex that follow.”
Teen sex will follow an immunization shot? And here I always thought teen sex just happens when teens decide to have sex. I don’t think they’ll be an increase in teen sex because of some shot.
I don’t think an immunization shot will cause more teen girls to engage in pre-marital sex. I doubt that any getting this shot will think they’re immune from contracting any of the number of Cancers.
Say some girl has sex, and the boy she has sex with carries this, or is infected with this virus...and it doesn’t matter if this is her first time/when it happens (could be she’s a virgin when she marries but he’s carrying or infected with this virus). She’s not doing anything yet gets infected.
This shot isn’t going to give a pass or a reason to teens to do what they’ve been doing forever.
The pill, condoms, etc. didn’t make me have pre-marital sex. I didn’t have it because I was taught not to and believed what I was taught. And, my husband had tons of pre-marital sex. He was also taught not to. Didn’t matter one iota to him at the time.
I have honestly never heard any evidence that a vaccine for HPV will affect sexual activity. If it were AIDS or birth control, yes. But most kids don’t think enough to have HPV as a deciding factor.