TX fundies: HPV vaccination contradicts laws teaching abstinence

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/012106dntswgardasil.8ef9e3.html


A mandatory vaccine against a cancer-causing sexually transmitted disease is proving to be a tougher sell in statehouses around the country.

Supporters of a mandate say states have a rare opportunity to fight a cancer that kills 3,700 American women every year. But opponents say states – and parents – should be trying to prevent premarital sex, not pushing a vaccine on the assumption that it's already happening.

"It's almost contradictory," said Kelly Shackelford, president of the conservative Texas-based Free Market Foundation. "We have laws on teaching abstinence on one side, then on the other say we don't really believe that's going to happen."

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Even a virgin risks contracting the cancer-causing virus from her husband on her wedding night if he didn't abstain from premarital sex, said Susan Crosby, president of Women in Government, a Washington-based bipartisan group of state lawmakers that advocates mandatory HPV vaccinations. And giving a child the vaccine isn't giving her permission to have sex before marriage, Crosby said. "People have a tetanus shot but we don't tell our kids to go out and jump up and down on rusty nails," she said.

[JohnLocke]

1. "People have a tetanus shot but we don't tell our kids to jump up and down on rusty nails."

Great line. :)

[David Dunham]

2. These fundies should be called out as hypocritical jerks and evildoers.

[Alexander]

3. These nutcases would be against a cure for cancer if it suited them.

After all, only Godless heathens get cancer.

:sarcasm:

[WindRavenX]

4. these assholes should not be allowed to have access to medicine

I swear to god, these people are sick--moralizing something that could save THOUSANDS of lives a year, possibly more in developing countries where cervical cancer is particularly dangerous.

Sick fucks.

[China_cat]

5. Hey, it's only women dying.

So who gives a shit. Better they should die than have sex and possibly even enjoy it.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: