Getting on my soapbox..
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-09-12-cancer-vaccination_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
Interesting. The State of Michigan is considering mandating that all 6 & 7th Grade Girls be required to be immunized against HPV and Cervical Cancer through vaccination.
Um....NO WAY JOSE in my book. No, I don't take the "then we are giving carte blanche to underage promiscuity" vein of this argument. (Hey..that door was opened when all 50 states required the Hep B vaccine)...nope...I object on three different levels:
1. This is totally gender based...wrong answer. Title 9 says nope. Unless they can find an equivalent vaccine for the other half of the human race....nope.....not gonna do it. (No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance)
2. Vaccinations/Immunizations for school purposes are to stop the spread of highly contagious, life threatening communicable diseases that are easily transmitted in an environment where close contact is assumed. Pertussis..check...mumps...check...diptheria...check...HPV....NOPE NOT CHECKED. A sixth grade girl is NOT going to get HPV (or cervical cancer via HPV) by sitting in a classroom with a carrier of the virus (even if the carrier he or she coughs!). It just won't happen.
3. How many vaccinations are we going to require for a child to go to a classroom. Most children receive close to 40 shots prior to entering the educational system...JUST so they can enter the educational system. I am responsible for my childrens' health, not the federal, state or local government. (I pay the copays, they don't, and quite frankly, those 40 shots are coming with about 25 office visits at $25 apiece....just so that my lovely boys can go to school.....) What are the likelihoods of the real diseases costing more money....they would...but what is the likelihood that some future disease wouldn't or couldn't have been prevented by the natural (vs. Synthetic) immunities that a body builds to certain diseases once caught.
You know...you never catch the same cold twice....which is why small children get way more colds than adults......the body has learned.
Okay..I am off my soapbox now.
Interesting. The State of Michigan is considering mandating that all 6 & 7th Grade Girls be required to be immunized against HPV and Cervical Cancer through vaccination.
Um....NO WAY JOSE in my book. No, I don't take the "then we are giving carte blanche to underage promiscuity" vein of this argument. (Hey..that door was opened when all 50 states required the Hep B vaccine)...nope...I object on three different levels:
1. This is totally gender based...wrong answer. Title 9 says nope. Unless they can find an equivalent vaccine for the other half of the human race....nope.....not gonna do it. (No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance)
2. Vaccinations/Immunizations for school purposes are to stop the spread of highly contagious, life threatening communicable diseases that are easily transmitted in an environment where close contact is assumed. Pertussis..check...mumps...check...diptheria...check...HPV....NOPE NOT CHECKED. A sixth grade girl is NOT going to get HPV (or cervical cancer via HPV) by sitting in a classroom with a carrier of the virus (even if the carrier he or she coughs!). It just won't happen.
3. How many vaccinations are we going to require for a child to go to a classroom. Most children receive close to 40 shots prior to entering the educational system...JUST so they can enter the educational system. I am responsible for my childrens' health, not the federal, state or local government. (I pay the copays, they don't, and quite frankly, those 40 shots are coming with about 25 office visits at $25 apiece....just so that my lovely boys can go to school.....) What are the likelihoods of the real diseases costing more money....they would...but what is the likelihood that some future disease wouldn't or couldn't have been prevented by the natural (vs. Synthetic) immunities that a body builds to certain diseases once caught.
You know...you never catch the same cold twice....which is why small children get way more colds than adults......the body has learned.
Okay..I am off my soapbox now.
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