[Hodar]

Nice post, BTW

You said "Gardasil doesn't prevent cancer per se. It treats a handful of strains of the many viruses that can act as precursors to cervical cancers.

If you immunize against a handful of strains of virus's that are precurosrs to cervical cancer, have you not prevented some mystery number of cancers?

Now, I'm not saying that a girl who is given this vaccine is 100% protected, no one is ever 100% protected from a vaccine - however her odds are generally in the 80-90% range of immunity. Certainly, this is better than nothing.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Now, I'm not saying that a girl who is given this vaccine is 100% protected, no one is ever 100% protected from a vaccine - however her odds are generally in the 80-90% range of immunity. Certainly, this is better than nothing.

You make a somewhat compelling case for wanting to take the vaccine, if safe.

You have failed to make the case that it should be mandated by law.

[VRWCmember]

Now, I'm not saying that a girl who is given this vaccine is 100% protected, no one is ever 100% protected from a vaccine - however her odds are generally in the 80-90% range of immunity. Certainly, this is better than nothing.

Actually it is around the 70% range since the four strains it prevents are associated with 70% of the cases of cervical cancer. The actual percentage risk improvement could be much lower since by avoiding risk behaviors one can lower one's risk exposure drastically.