Posted by
Jan@Oasis on Saturday, August 09, 2008 1:47:46 PM
The commercials for the "cervical cancer vaccine" make me cringe. The misinformation campaign is in full swing, and apparently people are buying it. Makes one reminisce about that old saw: there's a sucker born every minute. Must be true, if we judge by this item. And of course, there's the Obamamania. Suckers, every one of the lemmings slobbering over him.
But I digress.
The makers of this drug are dishonest and any parent who subjects a young daughter (they'd like to vaccinate 9 year olds) to this is both foolish and abusive. NO ONE knows what the long term effects of this drug will be. And it is NOT a CANCER VACCINE. It is a sexually transmitted disease vaccine. It is supposed to protect against several types of HPV virus--genital warts, to put it more appetizingly. The main thing to be aware of is that if one's daughter is not promiscuous and does not engage in risky sexual behavior (at NINE?) she is not particularly likely to acquire this lovely disease. It IS true that a large number of cases of cervical cancer are the result of HPV, but wouldn't parents be sending a better message if they simply teach their daughters the facts and not just shoot them full of some drug, before they even reach puberty, that may cause them harm later on? What are we telling these children? According to Planned Parenthood's web site for teens, STDs are just a fact of life! "Over half of us will get one at some time!" Hey kids, don't sweat it! Recreational sex is GREAT--and those STDs, well they just make you one of the gang. Over HALF of us? Huh?
I loved Kathryn Jean Lopez' column on the disgusting video production of PP, "Take Care Down There." "Crass" doesn't really do it justice though. It is so pathetic that PP and the secular lefties are unaware that kids are actually interested in something other than cheap, meaningless sex. Because THEY aren't, they assume no one is.
I'm always hearing that abstinence education doesn't work, but it MUST, because that's all we had when I was young, and only two girls in my high school got pregnant in the four years I was there. Abortion wasn't legal and birth control wasn't available to KIDS, so I have to assume most of us were abstinent. Both girls who did get pregnant married the guy, and one is still married to him some 40 years later. It would seem that assuming most teens will NOT have sex would be more effective than telling them they WILL have it, and to just suck it up with the STDs and all, not to mention the empty feelings, the depression, the shame of being dumped by the person who screwed you last night and then told all his friends--no big deal! And get that vaccine, so you can just continue to "hook up" and pretend it's about freedom and fun.
Now for those of you who have any doubts about how this sick culture of irresponsibility and demeaning behavior is hurting our kids, please read the book "Unprotected." My copy lists the author as Anonymous, though I believe she has now allowed her name to be on later copies. I'm sure you can get it on Amazon. It is a wake up call for parents and teens alike. We, especially women, but men are negatively affected too, are not meant to use sex as casual entertainment. No vaccine can protect against the emotional trauma this attitude causes. And apparently the vaccine doesn't protect against ALL strains of HPV. Hmm, I guess you just hope you get lucky and are exposed to one of the strains that it MAY protect against. Nothing is 100% effective--except abstinence. Parents--don't take the lazy way out. Tackle the tough issue of the sexualized cesspool our kids are swimming in, and TEACH them, provide them with values and allow them to be CHILDREN, innocent for as long as possible and then educated about the real facts and consequences of behavior.