HPV vaccine?

Question

Since states are working on getting this vaccine REQUIRED. And I say working because there are people still fighting it. Why cant we require birth control for young girls as well?

How about providing incentives for young girls to NOT get pregnant, like help with college, etc. Instead of helping the ones that DO act irresponsibly and get pregnant at a young age?

I never sdaid the vaccine woudl make people promiscuos, but if we are mandating things to give others better lives, why cant we mandate things liek birth control, cut back on teenage pregnancies and abortions.

Answer 1

well I do agree with the bottom half of your question to reward the good instead of the bad. But as far as being forced to take a drug no way. this should be america land of the free. my family has nearly died from birth controll pills. they are highly dangerous to us. And I am not taking or giving my child a new vaccine that has not had years of testing. As I do not trust the fda.

Answer 2

The HPV vaccine should be administered the same way other vaccines are given to school children. If it can help reduce the number of cervical cancer victims, it should be a routine vaccination.

As for the birth control issue...you cannot summarily go around forcing birth control on young girls. But I do like the notion of incentives for young women to finish their schooling and advance themselves in society before becoming mothers. There are just far too many young girls who romanticize the notion of motherhood and are eager to get pregnant at a very early age.

Answer 3

I don't understand what the hoopla is all about. All the girls I've ever known didn't give consideration to anything except V D or getting pregnant, before haveing sex. The only ones I've heard with an intellegent arguement are the ons saying enough studies have not been done to know the long term affects of the vaccine. The idea of girls being sexually active "just because she won't get cancer is stupid. I uderstand both sides of only the two argumentsas argumentaly as to the dangers of long term effect, or side effects as to the fact of getting the cancer virus. For the way I see it there are no other worthy issues, the one about it will make girls more prone to sexual activity is stupid people talking about rael stupid people and they don't count in my world.

Answer 4

the problem with this vaccine is that it will promote sexual exploration and discovery .
Imagine if your kids knew that the boggy man was a myth . how would you keep them from wondering off if you had no way to scare the crap out of them .
How do you stop kids from having sex . Well you tell them you will go to hell and you explain about all the sexually transmitted viruses that will make your brain rot and cause you to die .
Once you take the scare tactic out and show children who are going to have sex anyway the proper protection needed because forty year old men who have slept with whores have also picked up infections that they pass on to children when the abuse young girls and boys .
As long as you do not sleep with anyone older then you and they have not sleeped with anyone older then them or had or been forced to have sex then there is no way for this group to contract a virus no matter how often they change partners .
Quit lying to kids and scaring them .
It makes women frigid cause they can not relax and enjoy sex because in the back of there mind they know that lots of guys have been with several women before them and may still cheat on them . SO in the back of their minds death and viruses spin out of control and the crasy stories told to them when little to keep them from becoming sexually active destroys the possibility for a normal health sex life .

Answer 5

Everyone makes mistakes, if you say you haven't, you are lying. Everyone deserves help, when they need it, unless they have been proven to abuse the system with total disregard. Why punish the girl who got pregnant? Aren't you punishing her unborn child as well? Funny, because people like you are the first to cry about the rights of the unborn, yet you don't care about them if you think their parents are "amoral" or "irresponsible". Very hypocritical.
EDIT: Don't you consider mandating Birth Control a socialist idea?

Answer 6

I totally agree. I believe in a woman's right to chose, but that choice shouldn't have to made in the first place if we provided education and birth control. Duh!!! And yeah, some help with college would be appreciated. I struggled to get through it and 3 years after graduating, I am still paying for it and will be for another 8 years at least. And I can't even get a good job in my field without a Master's degree so I am working 2 jobs just to pay off my debt and to save money for grad school.

Answer 7

HPV vaccination is a bad move. Cervical cancer rates have dropped every year since their major climb in the 70's. The addition of a Pap Smear to a womans OBGYN visits substantially reduces the ability to contract HPV, as well as Cervical cancer.

The simple facts are this. In a population of about 300,000,000 people, less than 8,000 women die from cervical cancer each year. The majority of these women are 40+, and had HPV for one to two decades before they developed Cervical cancer. Cervical cancer rates are in a steady remission rate.

Therefore, is it cheaper to treat less than 8,000 women each year, with a dwindling pool developing the cancer, or is it cheaper to vaccinate 8,000,000+ women, whose numbers grow each year?

Given that the new shot from MERC doesn't even vaccinate against all HPV strains, I think it is a serious breach of the public trust to make this madatory. Casual contact and pulic space spreading of diseases are the mandatory vaccinations required for scholastic enrollement. Shots like this are bogus.

Answer 8

I think that getting this out to the girls and prevent that hideous form of cancer is only a good thing and a step forward for women.

I understand your point but HPV is a wart virus. I am not a doctor but I am guessing that you can get this virus from touching "down there" with a wart on your finger?

Answer 9

I know in Texas parents have the option of opting out, so I don't see why people are so pissed off that the state is trying to keep their children from getting cancer.

I also think they should at least teach about birth control and contraceptives in sex education classes.

Answer 10

The far right believes any kind of preventitive measures promote promiscuity. Ridiculous, huh? At the very least, young women should be more educated about their bodies.