Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Obsessed Much?

This is crazy! Who sits up and worries about other people having sex? What kind of psycho would withold a known preventative cure for a serious virus out of fear that teens will do what they have been doing since the beginning of time?

A new vaccine that protects against cervical cancer has set up a clash between health advocates who want to use the shots aggressively to prevent thousands of malignancies and social conservatives who say immunizing teen-agers could encourage sexual activity.

Although the vaccine will not become available until next year at the earliest, activists on both sides have begun maneuvering to influence how widely the immunizations will be employed.

Groups working to reduce the toll of the cancer are eagerly awaiting the vaccine and want it to become part of the standard roster of shots that children, especially girls, receive just before puberty.

Because the vaccine protects against a sexually transmitted virus, many conservatives oppose making it mandatory, citing fears that it could send a subtle message condoning sexual activity before marriage. Several leading groups that promote abstinence are meeting this week to formulate official policies on the vaccine.

I honestly believe that these wingnuts are closet freaks and deviants. There is just no way a normal person spends this much time worrying about someone else's sex lives (teens or adults).

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