HPV Is The New HIV! For Girls!
Because clearly cervical cancer is God's way of smiting you for your wicked ways.
Debate intensifies over HPV vaccine
Reuters reported yesterday that conservative groups appear to be divided -- or on the fence -- about a vaccine that could prevent the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV). Certain subspecies of HPV are the leading cause of cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is thought to kill nearly 4,000 women a year.
The Christian Medical and Dental Association -- which opposes over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception -- has, remarkably, spoken in favor of the vaccine. What's so "remarkable" about wanting to prevent cancer? Nothing, unless you recall that -- especially considering that the drug's manufacturers plan to recommend routine vaccines for children as young as 10 -- such a message doesn't exactly jibe with conservatives' preferred anti-reality inoculation: abstinence-only education.
As Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council recently told New Scientist, "Abstinence is the best way to prevent HPV. Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a license to engage in premarital sex."
Dude. I had to have a cervical biopsy several years ago and when the Orthodox Jewish OB/GYN asked me how many sexual partners I had I hesitated and then LIED to her because I got embarassed about having ever had sex and therefor bringing down the wrath of papilloma virus - how messed up is that? She wrote down the number I told her and then added a discreet but pointed "+" next to it. And this happened at the same time as I was acting in The Vagina Monologs . . .
Also - fucking Concerned Women for America. They are not cool, not cool at all.
Debate intensifies over HPV vaccine
Reuters reported yesterday that conservative groups appear to be divided -- or on the fence -- about a vaccine that could prevent the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV). Certain subspecies of HPV are the leading cause of cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is thought to kill nearly 4,000 women a year.
The Christian Medical and Dental Association -- which opposes over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception -- has, remarkably, spoken in favor of the vaccine. What's so "remarkable" about wanting to prevent cancer? Nothing, unless you recall that -- especially considering that the drug's manufacturers plan to recommend routine vaccines for children as young as 10 -- such a message doesn't exactly jibe with conservatives' preferred anti-reality inoculation: abstinence-only education.
As Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council recently told New Scientist, "Abstinence is the best way to prevent HPV. Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a license to engage in premarital sex."
Dude. I had to have a cervical biopsy several years ago and when the Orthodox Jewish OB/GYN asked me how many sexual partners I had I hesitated and then LIED to her because I got embarassed about having ever had sex and therefor bringing down the wrath of papilloma virus - how messed up is that? She wrote down the number I told her and then added a discreet but pointed "+" next to it. And this happened at the same time as I was acting in The Vagina Monologs . . .
Also - fucking Concerned Women for America. They are not cool, not cool at all.
posted by Joolya at
3:42 PM
2 Comments:
Well, the gynaecologist must have been used to people having pre-marital sex, so maybe you were just deciding she was being pointed because she was orthodox. But I suppose this is the difficult thing about overt religiosity, that it alienates people of different religions or of no religion at all.
ugh. as my beloved Brand put it, people who oppose this vaccine should have to give up access to insurance coverage and medicare/medicaid for cervical cancer screening and treatment for the rest of their lives. don't want a vaccine? fine. just don't ask society to waste resources treating the disease we all could and should have eliminated.
assholes.
also, the idea that it's the threat of HPV that's keeping teenagers abstinent is ridiculous on so many levels that it isn't even worth picking apart.
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