Saturday, August 11, 2007
Vaccine versus abstinence
Canada is introducing the HPV vaccine for grade six girls this year at a cost of $300 million. The vaccine is meant to protect against genital warts and cervical cancer, and can be administered to girls as young as nine. It's like giving them a license to be promiscuous, rather than educating our children about the value of abstinence. When children are told that the vaccine will protect them against STD's, they receive a subconscious message that it's OK to be promiscuous. After all, they are protected, right? Not only that, they have the endorsement of the government in the form of the vaccine. I think we should be asking ourselves how far $300 million could go in teaching abstinence, which would have such exceedingly far reaching effects that the need for the HPV vaccine would become extinct.
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I am going to disagree with you on this one...sorry.
While I agree that this is not right, forced or mandatory vaccinations for HPV, I feel this should be a parents choice, I do not agree that this give the young gals out there a free card to sleep around etc.
This is just MHO and I am sure that someone out there will get the mallet out to give me a "bash"
Karin, don't you think teaching abstinence is more important than supplying our kids with vaccines against STD's? That's the point I am trying to make. If our governments would spend half the money on abstinence teaching that they spend on vaccines, then society would change for the better. I'm not saying to eradicate vaccines by any means, I'm saying that the focus is wrong.
Let me add that I have discussed & added my two cents, till I was blue in the face, over at CAF (till I was banned that is).
"Karin, don't you think teaching abstinence is more important than supplying our kids with vaccines against STD's?"
I do think that teaching abstinence is important, heck this teaching has been proven to be 100% effective, as a Parent I am all for it!!!
"That's the point I am trying to make. If our governments would spend half the money on abstinence teaching that they spend on vaccines, then society would change for the better."
Sorry PG..missed that point totally...my brain is still on vacation I guess :(
Ummmm...why does a little kid need to be inoculated against STDs? For whose benefit is this really being done? Who is out there having sex with nine-year-olds?
why does a litle kid need to be immunized against Chicken pox, polio, etc.?
I say there are valid reasons for the vaccine, stopping some forms of cancer being one of them, but you can get this vaccine till your early 20's why not do it then?
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