Why are parents so outraged by the proposal of the HPV vaccine to young girls?

Question

i know some say the government shouldn't mandate girls vaccinations but if it can truely help girls prevent from developing the disease what is the harm....i would rather my cousins get shots that can prevent a cancerous disease than risk their health by not using preventative medicine....

i know girls shouldn't be having sex but they do...so parents need to protect them....thats like saying kids should drive safe and buckle up so they don't need car insurance....kids make mistakes and some grow up faster than others so they need backup and extra protection...that is not an excuse for not taking care of there health....would you flip a coin on your daughter's health or would you provide every option that you could to protect your child?

Answer 1

They are concerned that 30 minutes of testing on 7 lab animals is not the greatest. I am concerned that my daughter's legs will fall off in 20 years. You NEVER know where these things will end up going.

There are countless cases of antidepressants leading to suicide, thalidomide causing birth defects, pain medication and heart attacks, ED medication and vision problems. I could probably triple this list from memory and increase it by a factor of 20 or more with a little research.

Some people don't care to be the test animals in a laboratory experiment.

Answer 2

First, let me start off by saying that I am a native Texan. Next, let me tell you my story. When I was 16 (and still thought I was a heterosexual), I had unprotected sex with a young man. I ended up with the HPV virus. I didn't even know I had it. There were very dramatic and severe warts all over (even around my rectum), before I told my mother. The treatment for the warts back then were excruciatingly painful, so bad I would scream after the treatments. Needless to say, I had minimal, if any, support from my mother. Fast forward to age 29. I went to see a gynecologist, who called in an OB/Gyn/Oncologist (a women's private parts cancer doctor). I was eaten up with cancer. That's right. The big C. I was immediately scheduled for surgery the next week. Recovery was nearly unbearable. You cannot sit up at all. You have to lie down. Going to the restroom to urinate was a religious experience. You do this for nearly two weeks. I have had to go through this experience eight times through the years, and each time I felt is was worse than the last. I am now cancer-free, and have been for four years. I'm not in the clear until 2008. Would you want your kid to go through this? What if they didn't survive the cancer? You might be asking: "Would the HPV shot increase your sexual activity?" The answer is NO! I was not promiscuous, and I was pretty much a good kid. I just happened to have unprotected sex ONE TIME. My sex life at that age was minimal to non-existent. My view is this: If a mandatory vaccine will save a young lady embarrasment, HPV and cancer, isn't it worth it? And the whole argument of "they will become promiscuous if we vaccinate them" holds absolutely no water. Take it from a person who once had cancer years after having HPV...prevention by immunization is much better than the suffering.

Answer 3

the reason i am so out raged is that it shoukd always be the parent making the discion rather than the government dictating it second the drug has not been tested enough to say that yes it does provent it from happening. whats to say that it is safe and after we give this shot to all this little girls they begin to develope the disease later in life? Second most insurances right now do not cover the full cost of this shot it is a series of three shots costing about 300. if your insurance does not cover it could cost you as much as almost 1000 for the whole treat ment. my insurance covers it an it will run me 60 for the whole treatment but think of the people who can not afford it . i think more test need to be run before government being tell parents that this has to be done

Answer 4

It should be optional not mandatory, but we need something to limit the spread of HPV. You can be a carrier and not be aware of it. This is a serious health problem. People die from venereal disease. My first patient fatality was a man with tertiary syphilis. You rarely hear of that anymore, and it's because of testing and treating it in the early stage(s). Just because it's associated with sex should not be a reason not to treat it or better yet prevent it. You might remember the uproar about the putting fluoride in water. A communist conspiracy a lot of people were calling it. People should be glad they have the opportunity to protect themselves. Oh by the way, I never had a cavity after having my teeth treated with fluoride in the 50s.

Answer 5

I have a daughter, I would love to see her vaccinated against anything harmful....The problem I have with this vaccine is that it is too new, they haven't tested it in the long-term..What if it has a potential side-effect that could be devastating to her as an adult? I would almost rather see her accept the chance of disease than to force a vaccine that could have horrible side-effects...I feel the same way about the Chicken Pox vaccine....Also, as a side, when my son was born he was given a vaccine for rotovirus, it was to be a series of 3 shots...At his visit for the 3rd, his pediatrician told us that the vaccination had been removed from the market because of potential side-effects...So, no, I don't believe that just because it makes it through the FDA that it is safe and I don't feel we should be forced to give a vaccination that hasn't been proven yet.

Answer 6

I'm not a parent, but I am 22 and I will not get the vaccine. my reasoning behind this is the age of the vaccine. It is too new and I don't think that there is enough research to warrant mandating that young women get the vaccine.

Yes, we get vaccines now adays, but so many of these have had decades of research behind them. I didn't have to worry about the chicken pox vaccine because I had already had the disease.

Answer 7

I agree with you. Why take the risk of letting someone get fatally ill, why you could prevent death with a simple injection. I think that most parents think that by inoculating their children from getting HPV they are some how giving their children permission to have sex, which really isn't the point. Although I don't condone sex before marriage, I'm not ignorant, kids are going to have sex whether their parents permit them to or not. I believe that if we have the ability to prevent death, to prevent cancer, then by all means, we should do so.

Answer 8

People think the vaccine will promote promiscuity. It is irrational. Getting a hepatitis B shot does not promote drug use.
If you get the vaccine, it doesn't mean you're safe from other STDs and pregnancy.
Mainly, I think people just want something to gripe about because they can't face the reality that a good majority teenagers engage in sex before they are 18.
Wearing condoms does not necessarily protect you from HPV, because its from skin to skin contact.

Answer 9

The claims usually take the flavor of "false sense of security." If girls are immune to HPV, they're more likely to go, have sex, and contract some other STD.

However, this just implies that sexual education campaigns rely mostly on scare tactics (sad, but mostly true)

Answer 10

I agree with you, it is best to prevent disease and save lives. Some people have their heads in the sand and pretend that reality doesn't exist. As a result, they endanger their own children. It's sad and it's stupid.