Girl Rejects Gardasil, Loses Path to Citizenship

ABC News ^ | Sept. 11, 2009 | SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES

[nickcarraway]

Other Freepers, please weigh in on this:

I would rather have new citizens like this girl who will actually stand up for the right thing, than a the bleating sheep that Tempest apparently wants to become citizens. We already have enough sheep here.

[raybbr]

Now let's think this one through for a second. This is a vaccine, like vaccines that are required on every student to attend elementary schools (small pox, polio, flu, etc.). Most vaccines are done for the benefit of society as a whole. In this case, giving a person an immunity to a sexually spread virus that is tied to cervical cancer, seems to be a good thing. She may not be sexually active, but is her future husband banging everything that moves?

Let's think this through even further. What if she takes the vaccine and becomes sterile. Or, paralyzed. Now she can never have the children, or probably a husband. So, so much for protecting her future husband.

It should be her choice. This is not a childhood disease like you alluded to.

[raybbr]

Conservative, abrupt, and logical.

Not in this case. You keep referring to diseases that are transmitted by airborne or simple contact. This case is about sexually a transmitted disease. No LOGICAL analogy.

[Hodar]

It should be her choice. This is not a childhood disease like you alluded to.

I don't disagree about this SHOULD be her choice, but during the Clinton years, Immigration law was changed such that all immigrants are required to have the FDA recommended vaccinations. The HPV vaccine is an FDA recommended vaccine.

So, either she gets the vaccine, or she packs her bags and leaves the country. No one is above the law (unless you are Mexican, in which case anyone who questions your right to live anywhere or do anything is inherently a bigot).

[HiTech RedNeck]

Where’s rabies?

[timm22]

I don't see any reason why this young woman would make a bad citizen. Thus far she has followed the law. She has requested an exemption from a particular requirement, but the law allows for such requests.

Someone who challenges a stupid law is precisely the kind of person I'd like to call a fellow American.

[cyphergirl]

Conspicuously missing.

[nickcarraway]

I agree.

[BenKenobi]

If you are looking for a source for the Gardasil deaths, you can look in the VAERS, “Vaccine Adverse Event Report System.” The search engine is here.

http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.html

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaers/gardasil.htm

“A 21-year old Maryland artist, athlete and honor roll college student died suddenly without explanation in June 2008 after her third Gardasil shot. She is one of the 29 Gardasil death reports in VAERS.”

I do have a report that I filed of all 29 deaths, and if requested by FReeps, I would be more than happy to release said information.

[BenKenobi]

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS123707+09-Feb-2009+BW20090209