[lbo-talk] Social conservatives oppose vaccine against cervical cancer

[Leigh Meyers]

On 12/30/05, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anyone catch this in today's NYT?
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/opinion/30falk.html
>
> FORBIDDEN VACCINE Every year, about 500,000 women
> throughout the world develop cervical cancer. In the
> United States alone, the disease kills about 3,700
> women annually. This year, scientists developed a
> vaccine against human papillomavirus, a sexually
> transmitted disease that is the primary cause of
> cervical cancer. The vaccine produced 100 percent
> immunity in the 6,000 women who received it as part of
> a multinational trial. As soon as the vaccine is
> licensed, some health officials say, it should be
> administered to all girls at age 12. But the Family
> Research Council and other social conservative groups
> vowed to fight that plan, even though it could
> virtually eliminate cervical cancer. Vaccinating girls
> against a sexually transmitted disease, they say,
> would reduce their incentive to abstain from
> premarital sex.
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Young girls as pharmacological guinea pigs... Nice!

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