No, I’m not talking about sick birds.
Some time ago, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline each announced positive results for a vaccine that will help protect women against the human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV, a DNA virus with over a hundred strains, is more commonly sexually transmitted than one would imagine. In fact, more than 50% of all women will become infected with HPV during their lifetime, but for the most part, these are restricted to benign warts or pass undetected. There are two oncogenic strains however, which are irrefutably responsible for cervical cancer, the second most common form of cancer in women worldwide and kills about 270,000 women a year. Both vaccines are reported to prevent 90% of new infections and ALL persistent infections.
Having a vaccine is a good thing right? Not according to some religious lobby groups.
Their problem with HPV is that it is sexually transmitted, so to prevent infection, vaccination has to be carried out before a girl becomes sexually active.
Since it protects against a sexually transmitted virus at a young age, some conservatives actually think that young lusty females will be encouraged to be indulged in as much pre-marital sex as they want, because ‘Hey! I’m vaccinated!’. What these conservatives advocate is abstinence from sexual activity as the cure for all evils. This is of course, true – in theory. I’m sure these conservatives are thinking to themselves ‘My children are so virtuous, they don’t need vaccination.’.
The truth of the matter is that people are having sex, and we cannot stop them from having sex. Just as was the case for condoms, IUDs, birth control pills and abortion, these measures will surely make it less worrisome to engage in sexual activity and people may find reason to engage in sexual activity but not any more than if such measures weren’t available. An epidemiologist put it nicely: Instead of seeing the HPV vaccine as a green light for sex, why not think of it as a red light for cancer?
Do all these holier-than-thou conservatives feel that it's fair to subject all women to the restraints of their religious beliefs? My cervix is mine to protect, you piece of crap.
My theory:
The US is anticipating more casualties in Iraq and possibly Iran, Palestine, North Korea and any other country that Bush is told he shouldn’t like. The American total male-to-female ratio is already at 0.97 male per female and surely they don’t want to face the problem of too many females.
Solution? Cull the oversexed godless females!
Some time ago, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline each announced positive results for a vaccine that will help protect women against the human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV, a DNA virus with over a hundred strains, is more commonly sexually transmitted than one would imagine. In fact, more than 50% of all women will become infected with HPV during their lifetime, but for the most part, these are restricted to benign warts or pass undetected. There are two oncogenic strains however, which are irrefutably responsible for cervical cancer, the second most common form of cancer in women worldwide and kills about 270,000 women a year. Both vaccines are reported to prevent 90% of new infections and ALL persistent infections.
Having a vaccine is a good thing right? Not according to some religious lobby groups.
Their problem with HPV is that it is sexually transmitted, so to prevent infection, vaccination has to be carried out before a girl becomes sexually active.
Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex."
- Bridget Maher, Family Research Council, a Christian lobby group
Since it protects against a sexually transmitted virus at a young age, some conservatives actually think that young lusty females will be encouraged to be indulged in as much pre-marital sex as they want, because ‘Hey! I’m vaccinated!’. What these conservatives advocate is abstinence from sexual activity as the cure for all evils. This is of course, true – in theory. I’m sure these conservatives are thinking to themselves ‘My children are so virtuous, they don’t need vaccination.’.
The truth of the matter is that people are having sex, and we cannot stop them from having sex. Just as was the case for condoms, IUDs, birth control pills and abortion, these measures will surely make it less worrisome to engage in sexual activity and people may find reason to engage in sexual activity but not any more than if such measures weren’t available. An epidemiologist put it nicely: Instead of seeing the HPV vaccine as a green light for sex, why not think of it as a red light for cancer?
What moral precepts allow us to think that the risk of death is a price worth paying to encourage abstinence as the only approach to sex?"
- David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate
Do all these holier-than-thou conservatives feel that it's fair to subject all women to the restraints of their religious beliefs? My cervix is mine to protect, you piece of crap.
My theory:
The US is anticipating more casualties in Iraq and possibly Iran, Palestine, North Korea and any other country that Bush is told he shouldn’t like. The American total male-to-female ratio is already at 0.97 male per female and surely they don’t want to face the problem of too many females.
Solution? Cull the oversexed godless females!
2 comments:
I don't understand why too many females is a problem...
lol gau...
you might like the idea of having many women, but meehhhh for me, less competition is always better haha!
But in this case, what the conservatives probably want to avoid, with increasing female numbers, is the onset of polygamy which Chechnya is kind of advocating... Although hmmm, i don't think you'll mind... :D
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