[wagglebee]

I guess it’s a bad thing to try to prevent women from having cancer. With the opt-out it’s NOT “mandatory”.

First of all, Gardasil DOES NOT prevent cancer. It is a vaccine that will work on certain strains of HPV, nothing more.

Secondly, Perry's original intent was to make this shot mandatory for all teenage girls.

Thirdly, HPV is 100% preventable WITHOUT shots.

Finally, the long term effects of this vaccine are not known. They want to give it to all girls in an effort to promote promiscuity. What will this drug do to their reproductive system? What are the long term effects?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....They want to give it to all girls in an effort to promote promiscuity....

Who is "they?"

[xzins]

The HPV vaccine has a good rate of success, and if chosen voluntarily, I see no problem with it. Since it directly attacks a particular virus, it is in no way parallel with something like a condom that sends the message of free sexuality.

It is instead a means of protecting women from HPV WHEREVER THEY MIGHT ENCOUNTER IT....even from their husbands who might be totally unaware they carry it.

Moreover, there is some research that suggests HPV is not always sexually transmitted:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2256864 However, the high prevalence of the infection among the virginal women indicated that transmission of HPV by nonsexual modes was common. Genital HPV infection is ubiquitous and in women is not exclusively a venereal disease.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection of the genital tract was assessed in 205 women and 111 spouses by clinical exam, colposcopy and histological examination of punch biopsies. All were patients referred to the colposcopy clinic: 43 were virgins and 162 women were sexually experienced. Among the virgins 51.2% had colposcopic evidence of HPV infection, 9 had microwarts and 1 had condylomata acuminata. 86.4% of these were confirmed histologically. Among the sexually active women 69.1% had colposcopic evidence of HPV, 20.5% had microwarts and 4.5% had condylomata acuminata. 37 had neoplasia. 85.7% of Hpv cases were confirmed histologically, as were 8.0% of women without evidence of HPV. 77.1% of the 96 husbands whose wives were free of infection had HPV. Since many of the virgins, including 2 daughters of a woman with cervical cancer, had genital warts, HPV is probably transmitted by formites as well as by sexual contact.

A "formite", as I understand it is an object.

[Sun]

“Perry’s original intent was to make this shot mandatory for all teenage girls.”

As young as nine years old.