Where do people come up with this stuff??!
I just read a news article from msn.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17246920/) about parents who are uproaring against the idea of having the HPV vaccine mandatory for girls to have before the age of 12. You might find it as amusing as I did to see the statment where they say that administering this vaccine will only increase the amount of premarital sex by younger girls. Apparently this vaccine can reduce a woman's chances of getting cervical cancer, and also has an added supplement to drive her into sexual activities that she would otherwise not have engaged in! My question: what happened to the parents that are willing to counsel/educate their daughter(s) about sexual practices??! Why are people so quick to blame other sources for their own children's behaviour instead of pointing the finger at themselves? This goes hand in hand with the cookie monster issue. Did you know that Cookie Monster is no longer named Cookie Monster? Supposedly he is "Healthy Snack Monster" because Cookie Monster was driving children to obesity. It, of course, had nothing to do with the parents that are allowing their children to BE cookie monsters!
Anyways, back to the Gardasil thing... I also found it slightly unnerving how uneducated the entire article sounded! I understand we want to be safe and make sure there are no side effects associated with younger children recieving the vaccine, but should we be so quick to completely dismiss the idea?? This kind of issue/article makes me a little more frustrated I think because scientists work so incredibly hard to get to something this important and then people start criticizing it for invalid reasons - such as the premarital sex thing. But yet, if any of those parents' daughters contracts cervical cancer in the future (after refusing the vaccine as a child) I'm sure they'd be the first to advocate its use across the country.
Any thoughts??
Anyways, back to the Gardasil thing... I also found it slightly unnerving how uneducated the entire article sounded! I understand we want to be safe and make sure there are no side effects associated with younger children recieving the vaccine, but should we be so quick to completely dismiss the idea?? This kind of issue/article makes me a little more frustrated I think because scientists work so incredibly hard to get to something this important and then people start criticizing it for invalid reasons - such as the premarital sex thing. But yet, if any of those parents' daughters contracts cervical cancer in the future (after refusing the vaccine as a child) I'm sure they'd be the first to advocate its use across the country.
Any thoughts??
posted by DMmobile87 @ 10:08 AM
1 Comments:
At 12:21 PM ,
b.craft said...
I think it should be required though i would hope that there would be some financial help to those who can't afford it. Also, if it does become a requirement, then perhaps a generic, less expensive version can be made. Anyhow, the reason I think this is important is that most people will have sex at some time in their lives. HPV can lie dormant for years in the body thereby giving neither the carrier NOR the recipient any indication that he/she has it.
A girlfriend of mine (30) just found out she has HPV and has no idea where it came from. She's been with only one partner for the last 4 years and neither know where the infection came from. She's having to get a proceedure done to remove pre-cancerous cells around her cervix.
This story aside, I think this is just another example of how we, as a country, stick our fingers in our ears singing la la la la instead of taking preventative measures. If we invested, for exampled, in this vaccine, think of the money we would save from the treatment of the problems it would prevent.
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