My thesis is that there shouldn’t be any laws requiring girls to get the HPV vaccine before entering the 6th grade.
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July 8th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
I just want to say, I couldn’t agree more. Girls at that age shouldn’t be having sex and probably aren’t. I will never get that vaccine because it has already killed 2 girls and there has only been 10,000 cases of cervical cancer that HPV causes. Out of what? Billions of people in the world?! It bugs me to death that they do that. My friend went to the doctor and they told her to get it and her mom said no, my daughter has chosen to stay pure and will not be having sex any time soon. What’s the point if you aren’t doing anything like that. I’m sorry I didn’t get any websites, I just wanted to state my opnion.
~*Maggie*~
July 8th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
One of the most vocal arguments against mandating the HPV vaccine is that it will encourage young girls to have sex. Parents, who control their children’s healthcare, don’t want the vaccine because they don’t want to be seen as advocating sex. All well and good, except that teenagers are already having sex. They’re just not getting caught.
According to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a very well constructed national survey of high school students in the U.S.:
Almost half of all high school students have had intercourse.
More than 1 in 10 high school students have had intercourse with 4 or more partners.
Even though, in 2005, 60% of students had used condoms at last intercourse, condoms aren’t 100% protective against HPV, and 40% of students weren’t protected at all.
If the vaccine isn’t mandatory, these sexually active young women may not be able to get it.
Even if they want it, parents are the gateway to healthcare access for most teenagers, and a teenager who is hiding her sexual activity is unlikely to ask for a vaccine that her parents associate with sex. So they’re not going to get the vaccine, and by the time they’re 18 and able to make decisions for themselves as many as half of them will already have been exposed to one or more forms of HPV and the vaccine won’t be able to do as much good.
Mandating the vaccine takes sex out of the question. The vaccine becomes something that is required for school, and the girls who need it… will get it. Whenever vaccines are mandated there are opt-out procedures for safety concerns, or religious beliefs, and parents who don’t want the vaccine may need to jump through some hoops for their daughters not to get it, but it will, in the end, be the parents’ choice. The government, in the public interest, is just making it harder for them to make that choice.
Hope this helps. Good Luck!!!!
July 8th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Healthcare decisions should be between the patient, parents, and health care providers–not schools, and not the government. HPV is not a disease that spreads from person to person in a school setting, so it is not the business of the schools to mandate it.
Luckily, there are exemptions available to school vaccine requirements in most states. http://picturesofgenitalwarts.net "
July 8th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
This is for Maggie – who seems very young and not understanding of anything.
it is 10,000 cases of cervical cancer in the US (with 3,800 deaths) – not in the world. In the world, cervical cancer is still one of the leading causes of death in women – 500,000 annually diagnosed with 270,000 deaths. Cervical cancer is also pretty quiet – only annual pap smears can detect it early – and paps are usually not available outside of developed countries and even here in the US many women do not get them.
Second – for the vaccine to be effective, it needs to be given BEFORE sexual contact begins – once you have been exposed to the virus (and the majority of women in the US have been -whether or not they have external warts, HPV is one of the most common STDs) the vaccine is ineffective.
And third, I know you say that if you stay “pure” you won’t get it but at some time in your life you will be having sex. And your partner will have sex too – so even if you have just one partner, you will be still “having” sex with everyone that he has had sex with in the past.
And lastly – the “deaths” from HPV vaccine have not been attributed to the vaccine itself. Every reaction reported is investigated – medical records, autopsy, etc…. In ALL the cases, the women had had other conditions – infections, heart conditions etc…. – that contributed to their deaths. In one, the woman received the vaccine with no reaction and then almost 2 WEEKS later died – autopsy determined she had heart malformations from childhood that caused her death.
July 8th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
amanda it looks like she subscribes to common sense which it seems you’ve replaced with advertisements. unfortunately being that you don’t come up with anything, just read labels and advertisements and maggie does objective truth seeking, it seems YOU are the one who doesn’t actually KNOW anything. we’re all about to find out shortly. the truth seekers will be on one side and knowledge will be on the other.
July 8th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
That’s the thing: the website that support your thesis fall into a few categories:
1. Anti-vaccine propagandists. These folks oppose vaccines in general, including the vaccine for HPV.
2. Religious conservatives. Because HPV is sexually transmitted, these groups oppose recommendations for vaccination because it implies their daughters might be anything less than virginal. Worse yet, some conservatives believe that HPV is a punishment from God sent to hurt those to have sex, even if the victim is a virgin who catches it from her husband on their wedding night.
3. Anti-government extreme libertarians. They oppose all government regulation. Full-stop.
Anyway, Amanda’s right. The HPV vaccine is most effective when given well before a person has sex. Giving a 12-yr-old the vax will not convince her to run out and have sex. After I got my tetanus booster, I didn’t go running around barefoot in lumber yards. Teens have plenty of reasons they want to have sex (most of them are hormonal) and a simple shot is not going to decide it for them.