Stephen Parsley wants your daughter to take her chances with cancer
Stephen Parsley [sparsley@cavalierdaily.com]
From some college-aged retard at UVA, "Taking a shot of corruption:"
IT'S PROBABLY a safe bet that in the minds of most people, sex education for middle school girls does not include supporting promiscuity. This certainly would not be the expectation for a conservative state like Texas. To the shock of many, though, Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) did exactly that on February 2nd, with an executive order requiring all girls entering sixth grade at public schools to have received the Gardasil vaccine. Gardasil immunizes recipients against some forms of HPV (Human Papillomavirus), a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer. Perry and other advocates of mandating the vaccine focus on the serious effects of cervical cancer. But they ignore the fact that HPV is transmitted exclusively through sexual contact, and end up imposing an unnecessary burden on families that does nothing to protect their daughters' well-being...News Flash: young adults actually are having sex these days. Wake up and smell the decade, dipshit. Sadly, Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, and many other conservative groups are doing their best to block HPV vaccinations as well. Leaving the possibility of getting cancer on the table as a deterrent to sex is more important to them than protecting human life.Because of their invasive nature, vaccinations are procedures that the government should require only in very serious cases. Mandatory immunization makes sense for dangerous diseases that can be spread easily, such as through liquid, air or direct contact. A mandatory HPV vaccine would make sense in a setting where sexual activity is expected, such as, for example, government-run brothels. But these are not prostitutes; these are eleven and twelve-year-old children. There is something very wrong when our political leaders expect middle-school girls to be sexually active.
[For more really really smart columns by Stephen Parsley, click here. We especially enjoy this one where evangelical wonder boy Parsely claims that "resolve" is even more important than strategy when it comes to winning in Iraq... incidentally, even Stephen Parsley's classmates think he's a douche.]
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Bill McCartney
