[Mr Ramsbotham]

Someone check my arithmetic for me, but if the annual death rate among women from HPV-caused cervical cancer is 70 percent of 4,000, and there are 150 million women living in the United States, the chance of getting it is somewhere in the vicinity of .000186 of a percent. So do we really want to spend the money, subvert our notions of personal freedom and place innocent people at risk in order to deal with so minuscule a threat?

[Mr. Peabody]

One thing I’ll add is that side effects to Gardasil in 2007 were found in about 1700 individuals. It may be that if Gardasil will inflict as much harm as it will prevent.

It doesn’t make sense from a cost benefit point of view.

If cervical cancer from HPV were much more prevalent then it might make sense.

Parents are right to be outraged at mandating this vaccine.