Religious right fights HPV vaccine, fears kids will have more sex…
…all we need to do is vaccinate girls (and boys too for good measure) before they become sexually active, around puberty… in thirty or forty years, seven in ten cases of cervical cancer — goes poof.
Not so fast: We’re living in God’s country now. The Christian right doesn’t like the sound of this vaccine at all. “Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful,” Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council told the British magazine New Scientist, “because they may see it as a license to engage in premarital sex.”
As usual, the Christian Right comes out in favor of — well — not much of anything. Completely ignoring the reality that sex is not the only way to get HPV, they apparently don’t want to vaccinate the population in fear that — yes, you guessed it — people might have more sex…
I wonder what Jesus would have to say about those who fail to heal the sick because it violates their sense of ethics? Oh wait: seems he already registered His opinion on such when He healed on the Sabbath…
Well, obviously we can ignore that — because it wasn’t about {GASP}
SEX!!!!
