Pro-Life

The new move by the anti-sex Christianists is against a vaccine for cervical cancer.

Tristero, at Hullbaloo, has this to say:

According to the current Discover Magazine (not yet on line) this could potentially save 2,500 lives. As Alan Kaye of the National Cervical Cancer Coaltion says in the article, "How could we deny our children and grandchildren a win against cancer...Why should we?"

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Hal Wallace, head of the anti-fucking activist group that's deliberately mislabeleld as"Physicians Consortium," believes that vaccinating an 11 year-old girl against cervical cancer would send a message "that you just take this shot and you can be as sexually promiscuous as you want." And the equally loony Family Research Council (James Dobson's band of self-righteous prigs) says "it would oppose any measures to legally require vaccination."

From Wayne Besen:

What they are trying to do is sinister and downright evil. They want women to die from the HPV virus because they are opposed to vaccination. They want women to unnecessarily get pregnant by opposing Plan B - the morning after pill. And they want gay and straight single people to die if they have sex, by misleading Americans on the effectiveness of condoms and pushing ineffective abstinence-only programs.

Just remember, human life is sacred. Warped ideas of morality are even more sacred -- better that women should die than not be punished for the mere possibility of having sex outside marriage. (And, by the way, there is no evidence that administering this vaccine would change behavior.)

One wonders what the reaction would be if there were a vaccine for testicular cancer that should be administered to boys at the beginning of puberty for greatest effectiveness. Any guesses?

Draw your own conclusions.