Echoing the previous comments on the idiocy of "it will make kids go out and have sex." I mean, what 16-year-old girl is going to be like, "if I have sex I could get pregnant, contract herpes or HIV, or be seen as a slut - but what's this, I won't have to worry about dying of cervical cancer in 40 years? That's all the incentive I need to spread my thighs!"
Not only this, but I would wager that most kids don't even know that the virus can cause cancer, so getting the vaccine wouldn't be any sort of deterrent lifted! I mean, I'm 19 and consider myself pretty knowledgeable about sexual health, but seriously, I had NO idea about the connection between an STD and cervical cancer until I read the first article about the vaccine. I have no clue how it escaped me for so long - I didn't even have abstinence-only sex ed - but there you go.
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Date: 2006-07-01 01:57 am (UTC)Not only this, but I would wager that most kids don't even know that the virus can cause cancer, so getting the vaccine wouldn't be any sort of deterrent lifted! I mean, I'm 19 and consider myself pretty knowledgeable about sexual health, but seriously, I had NO idea about the connection between an STD and cervical cancer until I read the first article about the vaccine. I have no clue how it escaped me for so long - I didn't even have abstinence-only sex ed - but there you go.