Today, in Disgusting Actions of the Religious Right...

[eruthros]

We have this.

Of course! Vaccinating for an STD that kills 3,500 American women a year is basically telling girls to go out and have sex before marriage! Why didn't I think of that? (Also, does this mean that vaccinating for rabies encourages people to go out and be bitten by dogs?)

I just. I mean, I understand the issues parents can have with the concept of sex and their children. But ... cervical cancer. (And anyway you could get HPV from your husband, too. I mean, 80% of adults have been infected with HPV at at some point in their lives.)

Le sigh. It's a sad thing when I see people agitating for mandatory vaccines and think "oh, well, I guess that's to prevent parents from endangering their children by refusing to get it." Yeeesh.

Comments

[fiatlouis.livejournal.com]

Pish-posh. Disease should not be eradicated because they are punishment from god. All those people who got polio in the first half of the 20th century (like FDR)? Being punished by God.
Smallpox? Punishment from god. Why do you think it's occurence was higher in the Native American (i.e. Heathen!) population.
And of course you can't get it from husbands. They are all celibate until marriage.
And as we know, providing protection from STDs GUARANTEES (Note: not an actual guarantee) sexual promiscuity. Just look at me! Condoms everywhere, and I was philandering about with literally (read: made up) thousands of women.

[eruthros]

fiatlouis, I think I love you.

This comment brought to you by the sniggering provoked by your comment, which is so fabulous in total that I won't even try to break it about to say good things about.

[eruthros]

Well, okay, except to say this, which is unrelated to your comment but which I bet you didn't know: babies can get some of the HPVs from their moms when they're born. And sometimes it leads to really bad warts in their throats, and then they have to have laser surgery.

See? If we get rid of more forms of HPV, we'll save babies too!