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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Debate rages on use of cervical cancer vaccine?

The San Francisco Gate blares that social conservatives oppose the use of a cancer vaccine because, the disease being sexually transmitted, immunization might encourage teenage copulation. “May God one day grant them brains,” I thought to myself as I read the opening grafs. Alas, I had forgot never to trust the opening grafs, especially ones which within a mere handful of sentences relate an incredibly dim conviction first to “social conservatives” and then straight over to George Bush, noting the while their “growing influence” with him. No names—save for those condemning these spectral conservatives—are given.

And as sure as the sun rises, just a dozen lines down there is this language: “Conservative groups say they welcome the vaccine as an important public health tool but oppose making it mandatory.” And then the Gate begins to give names and organizations.

The debate, then, isn’t on the use of this vaccine, but on whether or not to make it mandatory for girls. That seems to be an open question.

Posted on November 1, 2005 01:38 PM. Permalink