How do you feel about Gov.Perry making the HPV vaccine manditory for school age girls?

Question

do you think it shoul or shouldnt be. Please include any facts if you have any.The only fact i really know is that not only women can get HPV, but men too. This is for my english class debate, so keep nice and clean.

Answer 1

i feel good about it but why didn't he make it mandatory for boys too?hpv causes penile and anal cancer in men and of course if they are vaccinated they can't spread it.

Answer 2

Hi Bree.

A lot of people are making a lot of noise about the HPV vaccine because most parents are in denial and dont want to accept the fact that their teenage kids are having sex. Studies show that almost 70% of all tennage kids have already had a sexual encounter by the time they are 18. Its just that the parents dont want to accept the facts. So they argue that this will be like telling the teenagers that its ok to have sex.


Here is another example: Should they stop teaching kids sex education and the use of condoms? Because one might argue that this will lead to kids having sex.

Now consider this, when you vaccinate against Tetanus, do you tell kids to go and step on a rusty nail because they have been immunised against tetanus? The answer is NO.

I think people should let it be and make it a choice for the parents and their kids. How do you deny someone, something you know might save their lives in the near future?
Shouldnt they consult the young teenagers to see if they think of the idea?
Anyone who has suffered from HPV would not want their kidsto go through the same experience.


I just wish that peole would accept the fact that kids have sex at very early stages and that nothing in the near future will be able to stop that and that the HPV vaccine is for the better.

Answer 3

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 4

approximately 20 million everybody is presently contaminated with HPV. a minimum of 50 p.c. of sexually lively women folk and adult males people acquire genital HPV an infection quicker or later of their lives. via age 50, a minimum of 80 p.c. of girls people could have obtained genital HPV an infection. approximately 6.2 million individuals get a clean genital HPV an infection each and each year. The vaccine protects agains 4 HPV types which reason 70% of cervical cancers and ninety% of genital warts. I believe making the vaccine needed because of the fact notwithstanding it expenditures $360 in line with woman, it is going to keep thousands and thousands of greenbacks used to handle cervical maximum cancers and different proper illnesses. i believe they could positioned it interior the common scheme of vaccines alongside with small pox or polio (so no person could even question it) notwithstanding this is no longer stated for women youthful than 9. nonetheless it should be administered formerly being sexually lively, as a result it should be formerly 14 aprox... which makes formerly center college an incredible age. an excellent sort of lives and funds could be saved.

Answer 5

Yes it should be mandantory. I don't understand why parents wouldn't want their child protected against this horrible std that 80% of people are exposed to in their lifetime. Do people think their kids are going to virgins forever? guess again! Kids are becoming sexually active younger and younger and there is no hpv test for men. so even if a girl is smart and safe and has the guy get tested, he can't get tested for this std. It can happen to anyone. 80% is a huge number, that's almost everyone!

Answer 6

Without additional data to indicate that the vaccine would not cause long-term health issues, I would be very uneasy with getting my daughter immunized. I also do not like the fact that the vaccine is being made manditory. That takes away the rights of parents regarding the health of their daughters.

Answer 7

Feature articles on HPV:
Merck backs off national push for mandatory HPV vaccinations
(NewsTarget) Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Inc. announced this week that it will no longer lobby state governments for mandatory vaccination of school-age girls against human papillomavirus (HPV) strains that cause cervical cancer. Previously, Merck had been lobbying legislators to require the administration...

Virginia law guaranteeing parents' medical rights routed by mandatory HPV vaccination
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Medical tyranny in Texas turns teenage girls into HPV vaccination profit centers (opinion)
(NewsTarget / Opinion) This is an important health freedom update from Mike Adams. If you believe in your health freedom, and you believe that forced vaccinations of children have gone too far, then you need to know the real story about what's happening in Texas right now. On Friday, Feb. 2, Texas...

Cancer vaccines, little girls and the dirty business of Texas politics
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Lawmakers attempt to push mandatory sex disease vaccinations onto 11 year old girls
(NewsTarget) A proposition before the California state legislature that would make a new vaccine mandatory for girls, is raising questions of parents’ rights. The bill (AB 16), introduced by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, would make inoculation with Guardasil, the human papilloma...

Parents fights to save 9-year-old girls from mandatory HPV vaccinations
(NewsTarget) In the summer, it was announced that authorities in Scotland were considering vaccinating girls as young as 9 years old against the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus in order to combat the cervical cancer that can result from infection, but complaints from parents have stopped the...

Seaweed extract blocks HPV cervical cancer virus, scientists discover
(NewsTarget) A new study by the National Cancer Institute has revealed that a seaweed extract called carrageenan can prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) -- a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer -- from entering human cells. Researchers found that carrageenan -- derived from red...

Answer 8

i do Not think it should be mandatory, it only protects against certain strains of the virus , and there is way too many strains ,and i dont care for the idea of the government or health agenies using our resources ( children) for their experiments !

As a mother of four daughters , i can tell We The People connot keep letting our elected officials tell Us what is do do , it is supposed to be the other way around !

tyvm LB :(

Answer 9

I think it is a great idea. It does not prevent you from getting warts but you do get protected against 13 diff. types of cervical cancer. I think its 13. You can get more info from the companys web site and pamplets from doctors offices.

Answer 10

It's good because it might save lives.