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Friday, April 25, 2008

1 in 5 parents refuse daughters' cervical cancer jab | Society | The Guardian

1 in 5 parents refuse daughters' cervical cancer jab | Society | The Guardian: "some may have concerns that allowing vaccination may promote promiscuity, because the cancer-causing virus which the vaccination targets is passed on in sexual intercourse."

if the only reason you're not having sex is because you're afraid of catching cancer - or rather, you won't immunise you's daughter so that she's afraid of having sex because she might catch cancer - then there's something seriously wrong with you and i think you've proved yourself undeserving of the right to an opinion or anything else, except education. which is a duty anyway.

or, perhaps:
parents who decide to not have their children immunised should be charged with child abuse.
discuss.

1 comment:

laurence said...

this debate was massive in cananada last year. it came up right at election time too, and there was all kinds of shit about non-public schools (the catholic schools) getting or not getting government funding (i.e. the government shouldn't be funding schools that are teaching children things that are against the national curriculum - creationism). but yeah, the catholic schools were also saying they wouldn't be offering the vaccination to their students. the whole thing got so out of hand i stopped paying attention to the arguements. because basically there isn't one. you summed it nicely ;]