Gov. Perry of TX. says that girls in Jr. High should get HPV vaccine. Conservatives say no. What say you?

Question

The conservatives say no because they believe it will make sex amongst adolecscents increase. (Like TV, music, lack of parenting etc. hasn't already done so) Please share YOUR thoughts...

Answer 1

There were three girls in my 8th grade class who were pregnant. I knew many others who were sexually active. My senior class vice prez. dropped out 'cause she was pregnant. The girl with the highest grade in my pre-calc class also dropped out because she was pregnant (leaving me at the top of the class curve!)

I know teens have sex. It's way too obvious.

As a public health professional, I agree with the recommendation that girls as young as 9 should get Gardasil (the HPV vaccine). While studies show that teens are waiting longer than ever before initiating sexual activity, there are still going to be people at the front end of the bell curve who are just a little quicker to get to it than the rest. These are the people who MOST need protecting (everyone needs protecting, but lemme explain).

Studies show that early sexual debut is a risk factor for getting HPV. If you start younger, you have that much more time to rack up a laundry list of sexual partners. A lot of young people don't consider themselves as having multiple partners, but when the big picture shows that you were with Jeff for 3 months, Seth for 4 months, Aaron for 6 weeks etc... That's multiple sexual partners. That's risk for STDs.

The ideal with vaccine corverage is to protect EVERYBODY under the bell curve. The sooner you can vaccinate them, the more people you will protect.

Now, here's my conservative caveat. I DO NOT agree that the vaccine should be mandatory for school enrollment. HPV is not a disease you can catch from casual school exposure. Sure, school is where kids find their sex partners, but they're not spreading the HPV by breathing on each other.

I would like to encourage ALL PARENTS to have the common sense to get their daughters vaccinated (and the sons, too, once the shot gets approved for use in males). It's cancer. It's warts. It's a virus that's currently prevalent in 70% of the adult population! A simple set of three shots to prevent all of that? That should be a no brainer.

But I don't think it's necessary for school admission.

Answer 2

i really do believe they should get the hpv vaccine. i have hpv and i wasnt even educated about the disease until i found out i had it and now i can never get rid of it. i could also die bc hpv increases ur risks for cervicle cancer and most women dont even know they have it so they die. most teenage girls are sexually active already that is just something the world needs to recognize giving them a shot is not going to increase or decrease their sexual activity. i would rather my teenage daughter get the shot to better prevent herself rather than pretend that she is not having sex and find out later she has hpv. i just know how it feels i am only 18 and i had sex with one person and i contracted the disease and i wish i would have known about and had the vaccine so that i wouldnt have got it. cuz now i have to live with it the rest of my life. i am glad they got a vaccine and i think that it is a good idea to have young girls take it bc they are going to have sex whether or not we like it. i think it is protecting them not promoting sex. its like condoms now a days in schools they only teach abstinance and look at all the young teenagers who are getting pregnant. i feel lik eif they are educated abou things better rather then told not to do it then they wont be so stupid and contract these diseases or get pregnant.

Answer 3

I examine that oral sex among adolescents is on the upward thrust. it is taken into consideration necessary for all to attraction to close that a "chilly sore" on the lips can infect a companions genitalia with herpes virus. If the Texas conservatives can settle for a "pie contained in the sky" providing that a Jesus popularity can provide "eternal existence" they're sorely amiss now to not settle for technological information's providing that the HPV vaccine can shop lives in this existance.

Answer 4

a vaccine for a virus that causes cancer , Do you really have to ask ?