Should Christians oppose the Cervical Cancer Vaccine?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_on_he_me/cervical_cancer

Would a true Christian allow their daughter to be vaccinated against STD's that cause Cervical Cancer. What happened to consequences for sin?

This only encourages women to have sex outside of marriage. This is religious persecution by secular humanism.

Answer 1

You can opt out of this for religious reasons and reasons on conscience.

Answer 2

You can get the cervical cancer virus by being raped too. That's a consequence for sin, but not the sin of the woman. I think it's much too muddy to say "Oh, it's unChristian to receive a vaccine for an STD." We live in a fallen world, and we should take advantage of the benefits of modern science.

Answer 3

antagonistic simply by fact even nevertheless the regulation has the final of intentions, that's only yet another step in direction of the slippery slope of legislating own freedoms into oblivion. Cervical maximum cancers is,sure, a public sickness,yet in assessment to different ailments alongside with polio, typhus, diphtheria and others that infants are vaccinated against, it is not exceedingly contagious and does not pose the concern of a virus. women individuals might desire to certainly take care of their reproductive wellness yet to make it a regulation....i only would be unable to justify the fee and the skill yet consistent with probability yet unknown section outcomes to an unproven end.

Answer 4

F*ck you! Do you know ANYTHING about HPV???? 80 percent of the ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE EARTH will have it at one point or another, and unless men have the strain which causes genital warts (which is NOT the strain that causes cancer) then it is UNDETECTABLE IN THEM. The virus can also lay DORMANT for YEARS before it pops up and gives someone cancer, so a woman can be a virgin when she's married, marry a man who is NOT a virging (because men are SO truthful about that) and 10 years into the relationship be diagnosed with cervical cancer.

F*ck you you prick. My sister has HPV and got it from the ONLY man she's ever slept with, two of her MARRIED friends have it, two MARRIED friends of mine have it, and I was recently diagnosed. You are a f*cking prick and I hope your daughter catches HPV from her husband, develops cervical cancer and needs a hysterectomy at the age of 33, which my sister is now facing.

You go to hell.

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Answer 5

I thought the consequences for sin for Christians is burning in hell.

A girl could get raped, or she could make a bad choice that goes against your beliefs and knowledge. If your question is serious, which I hope it's not, then it seems as though you'd rather your daughter develop cancer as a lesson than protect her. Which is just ridiculous.

Answer 6

You assume that the sin would be the daughter's. What if she were raped, and got an STD which lead to cervical cancer? Then sin would be on the part of the rapist.
I guess you could look at it as permission for premarital sex, or you could look at it as protection from the unthinkable.
We guard our children from the world as best we can.

Answer 7

I see no reason to decline such medicine; except for fear that most doctors are morons (private fear) and that the government has hidden plans with this manditory vaccination ( I'm just like that though ).

Christains are for medicine that will improve life, and preserve the body God gave us. Stem cell research is good; providing it doesn't kill the fetus (babies embelical cords good, dead fetus' bad, adult stem cell good). Transplants are good; providing they don't kill the donor (OK with liver, kidney, pancreas, & cornia ... Not OK with heart or lungs since donor has to be brain dead, but alive) ... Cervical Cancer can be a STD, but is is also a bacteria that can be got without sex. Since this vaccine does not deny a life and is used to improve the human condition it is not a bad thing. (Unless your paranoid like me and think doctors and governements are out to get us)

Answer 8

Ah, yes, unwanted pregnancy, STDs, or horrible death by cancer, all proper punishments to keep girls from enjoying the sexual sensations that God gave them. Why not a chastity belt? Those work pretty good and aren't nearly as sadistic as what you propose. Or the third world custom of cutting out the girl's clitoris to keep her from enjoying sex? Especially after it's been carried out by man, with no anesthetic (the usual practice).

When did you get appointed to the Morality Police? And by whom? Your mullah? I mean, pastor?

Get a life of your own.

Answer 9

well, most non-believing girls are going to have sex with more than one guy. this could be a way to save those girls from things. just because people in Africa aren't christians doesn't mean we shouldn't love them and seek to ease their suffering. if they come to God through the love and care we give them, then fine. Jesus never refused anyone aid, as long as they asked. if these girls ask, let them have it. it's just another kind of miracle. However, I don't believe Christians should vaccinate their pre-pubescent daughters, believing that they are going to have sex outside of marriage. I'm 18, and am still a virgin and proud of it. brought up right, with a real relationship with God, girls won't have to deal with it. and if they marry someone with the virus, then they should know that before the marriage. it's not morally wrong to get vaccinated, any more than it's morally wrong to.. I don't know, buy condoms. But that doesn't mean girls should take this as an excuse to ignore God's laws.

Answer 10

what kind of idiot would not want their daughter vaccinated for a disease that is verry easy to get.

anyone who thinks their child is going to stay a virgin till marriage is a blind fool who needs a quick reallity check. yes, even unmarried christians will continue to have sex. This is how it has been for 2 thousand years and will be for thousands more. only an uneducated idiot would think otherwise.

Answer 11

Jesus spent most of His time here on Earth going around and healing people. I doubt that He said to each person, "What sin have you committed to get into this situation?" No, he just loved them and healed them and did not judge them. He did not come as a judge 2,000 years ago, but He will come as a Judge soon. I think that we are called upon to have mercy on those who are sick, and stop second-guessing them.