http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54296http://www.dallasblog.com/dallas-blogs/2007/2/4/social-conservatives-critical-of-perrys-vaccine-order.htmlhttp://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/aggregator.php?entry=360765http://www.lifeissues.org/breakingnews.htmlhttp://www.buckscountyprolife.com/commentary_detail.asp?id=714http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_15697.shtmlhttp://cathmedweek.blogspot.com/2007/01/hpv-vaccine.htmlhttp://freerepublic.info/focus/f-news/1778223/posts In the course of the past few months, one by one, conservative groups began to come out in favor of the vaccine. But their new message feels like a well-worn page from the Bush playbook: Say you're for it but work furtively against it. Focus on the Family hailed the vaccine as "a tremendous breakthrough in science that will likely save millions of women's lives around the world," but said it would oppose mandatory HPV vaccinations. Likewise, The Family Research Council may now "support the widespread distribution of vaccines against HPV," but "would oppose any measures to legally require vaccination." Women's health proponents expect the Religious Right will battle the HPV vaccine state-by-state.
According to Dr. Gregory Zimet, chair of the vaccine committee at the Society for Adolescent Medicine, this is the Right's attempt to repackage its original agenda. "The softening of their position came, at least in part, from the recognition that being labeled as pro-cancer didn't really fit well with their attempt to present themselves as pro-life," said Zimet. "Many of them are now saying, 'We've never been opposed to it,' even though I looked at their websites a year and a half ago and they were. What they've done is said, 'Of course we're not opposed to this vaccine that can save the lives of our daughters, our wives and our mothers — but we just don't think it should be forced on people.' So, I think partly
is cover and partly it may be a warning — as they say, a shot across the bow." It will be up to the states to decide whether the HPV vaccine is, like inoculations against polio and diphtheria, required for a child to proceed through school. "As states begin to consider the potential for mandating a vaccine like this," says Zimet, "They are forewarned that these groups will put resources to fight it."
http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/cpage/virginvaccine/Just like condoms in Africa and emergency contraception in the U.S., Ornstein continued, "you've got people that are just blind to the notion that there are tradeoffs here." By ignoring "the real trade offs" in order to "promote a greater morality," he argued, "tens of thousands of people die."
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