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Re: A Vaccine to Save Women's LivesFrom: Dean Huffman . (dean@thehuffpeople.net)Thu Feb 8 14:38:41 2007
.. Some good points. It often happens when dealing with certain “absolute” attitudes, that the things they try the most to prevent are actually the things they end up encouraging by their rigid thinking and policies. The Texas example is good. Another example is the anti-abortion people who, by withholding funds from people providing birth control, often actually end up causing more abortions. I do not want my unmarried teenage daughters to be having sex. But even more, I do not want them getting pregnant or getting HPV infections. I have more control over the pregnancy and HPV issues (OC’s, HPV vaccination) than over the sex issue, So I have to be realistic and deal with the things where I can have more of an effect. I still discourage them from having sex, but I am not stupid enough to think that … well, you know. Abstinence is best, clearly, but unless one can be certain, 100%, that abstinence will be followed, one must protect against other eventualities. - - - - From: "Joanne Bulley, MD" <islesannie@gmail.com> Subject: Re: A Vaccine to Save Women's Lives Date: Feb 7, 2007 10:00 PM What is very "interesting" about the TEXAS mandate ... is that (now Pres) (then Gove) Geo W Bush did the whole "abstinence only" sex education AND encouraged the anti-condom religious right to do all sorts of public announcements that condoms as protection against anything was a crock of lies. The results of those edicts and proclamations and advertising is that Texas has the highest teen pregnancy rate and the fastest growing HIV rates. Additionally, when they mandated "parental consent" for their abortion laws: the second trimester abortion rate went up because the 17.8 year olds who were pregnant and wanted to shoose abortion just wited until they were "old enough" to "consent" for themselves and had their terminations at beyond 12 weeks. So the state with the most regressive laws and results regarding contracpetion and pregnancy ... has now mandated the HPV vaccine??? Does that tell us that those "in the know" ("wink-wink") realize that lots of sex is happening and since nothign is being done that truly decreases early and frequent sex with more than a single partner ... so the GIRLS should be vaccinated against the "sowing of wild oats" (as it used to be called) because there is lots of sex going on. Just seems so weird that TEXAS was the state to make this edict... Maybe I am biased ... but I don't think so. Joanne
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