I am all for making this mandatory for school children....here's a link to a good article on the subject. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...0.html?cnn=yes
I am all for making this mandatory for school children....here's a link to a good article on the subject. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...0.html?cnn=yes
“Towie Barclay of the Glen, Happy to the maids, But never to the men.”
Will it help get a wart off my finger? I can't get rid of the damn thing.
in my opinion, it is a streatch of constitutional authority to make ANY vaccine mandatory, but i can understand the state's interest in preventing pandemics that could easily be spread by school children to their families. this, however is completely different. this sort of thing should be left to the parents to decide -- i really don't believe such a mandate is constitutional. you can educate the parents and try to convince them of the importance, but the state just does not have the right to force this type of medical treatment. what ever happened to "get your laws off my body"?
Arkbob, then do you aree with the "dildo" law in Texas or prositution laws?
i don't guess i've ever heard of said texas law. as for prostitution laws, i'm sure there are plenty of federal court decisions upholding the constitutionality of such laws (as there probably are about mandatory vaccinations for communicable diseases [which hpv is not]). the state has the prerogative to outlaw behavior that it believes to be detrimental to the citizenry, especially if such laws do not violate any basic rights. it would be hard to argue that my refusing to vaccinate my daughter against an std does any harm to anyone else. comparing this to prostitution is like comparing denial of anthropogenic global warming to denial of the holocaust.
hpv is communicable through sex.
Actually, I don't have an opinion on said topic, but how would you feel about a mandatory vacination for HIV?
it is not communicable in the sense that it cannot be spread rapidly by contact, vicinity, or other passive means. this is typically what people mean when they say that something is communicable. it's synonymous with "contageous," which is a word that is not typically used for std's.
and i would be opposed.
Here's the problem I have with it. I'm sure there are tests that have been run, so I'd like to know more about them, but how do we know that a 12 year old girl won't have problems with pregnancy 20 years later due to this vaccine?As with any new vaccine, there are plenty of unknowns about Gardasil. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently studied 542 reports on side effects out of 2.1 million doses given. Most were minor and expected: pain at the injection site, fever, dizziness and fainting. "Any procedure involving a needle has a risk of fainting," says Dr. John Iskander of the CDC's immunization safety office, which recommends waiting in the doctor's office for 15 minutes after any shot. Another unknown: how long the protection will last and whether a booster will be needed. Merck says its studies so far show that protection lasts at least five years.
Much wiser people than us have seen this through the FDA approval process. I would be much more worried about the overuse of ADD drugs on children these days than a vaccine that could keep someone safe from some forms of cancer.
“Towie Barclay of the Glen, Happy to the maids, But never to the men.”
They are in the process of starting to try and implement a state law requiring this vaccine here in VA. My daughter is 11, going on 12 in July. She will not be getting the vaccine. The article stated it was effective up through age 26. If we feel this is appropriate at a later date then we will get it. As has been stated, we are not sure what the long term effects could be. Besides, I strongly feel this infringes on parental rights. Make it available for those who want it, but don't force it on those who don't. Parents are the ones who know what is best for their kids, not the state, the FDA, etc.
So even though there's no proof this might happen, yet just because it maybe, conceivably, posisbly, could happen youre against it... yet global warming affects many more living things and has a lot of evidence towards it, yet its a hoax because the anti-science right paid off some faux-scientists to "debunk" it?
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