Questions Never Asked
posted February 3rd, 2007 in Current Events, Culture, Questions Never AskedWhenever I watch the local news or read the headlines in the various online news sources, I tend to notice that there are many questions never asked. Recently Texas passed a law that makes 11 year old girls receive injections for cervical Cancer/HPV virus mandatory if they want to be in school. What wasn’t mentioned in the report I saw on my local station was that the HPV virus is a sexually transmitted disease that causes cervical cancer. Throughout the sound-bite they naturally talk about how good of an idea it is. However they failed to ask:
What are the side effects of the decision?
What is this saying to little kids?
Unfortunately no one seems to be thinking this issue through. Telling your daughter she needs to get a shot for cervical cancer at 11 is like giving her birth control and walking off saying “they’re gonna do it anyway”. Sadly, too many people do this already.
Ultimately what this mindset is telling my generation is: “Okay hunny, We don’t want you to have relations before your time (marriage) but if you do here’s what you should have”. That reaction is not communicating love to a young adult. Rather it is a display of apathy in one of it’s worst forms - indifference. For a parent to be indifferent about their child’s life is telling their child that they don’t care.
While seemingly teens may want their parents not to interfere - you know you’re cared about when your parents sit you down and explain why abstinence is necessary rather than just giving you a pill.
Wow, that’s very, very sad….
I must admit that my initial thought about this was: “Sickos! Don’t they have daughters??” But upon further thought, I must admit that we should not be surprised by this–disgusted, sure, but not surprised.
Why? When you assume a worldview that leaves out God, it leaves out any basis for morality, and the only way to fight that is to give out condoms and abortions and these vaccines. Only another step in the same direction…
*that being the consequences of no morality
That is a sad, sad situation. We need to keep these people in our prayers.
And that’s exactly what kids are looking for from their parents - just a sign that they actually care. And more and more our government is encouraging parents to let them come up empty - by taking their place and by creating regulations like this.
YAY for resurrecting relatively old posts!
I totally agree with you. My science teacher is a Christian, shes also a doctor and in her opinion is that what ever can cure disease should be forced on us. Not only does that opinion urk me as a conservative but also as a Christian. If we say that anything that might cure a disease no matter what else it might do should be used. One of my biggest things is that it is not the governments place. I really have no problem with the vaccine itself but for the gov to force it on us gets me mad.
The media never do ask the right questions. I heard from somewhere that Merck had hired his former chief of staff and gave him $6,000 from their political action committee during his re-election campaign.
Because you are a politically incorrect blog, I think you would like to check out this video networking site that called ourcountry.com.
Mercks pouring money into state legislatures everywhere to try to pass this bill that will force people to buy merck products. Is their any conflict of interest here? What about capitalism?
Well, Kierstyn, it’s worth remembering that 75% of all STD infections in America come through tainted blood transfusions, so it’s not like it might seem on the face of it. At any rate, health shouldn’t influence morality and if it does then does it really matter what injections they get anyway?
Just to join this conversation rather late, my friends and I had lots of vaccines at various points through our school careers, as is standard in the UK, and the vast majority of which we didn’t know anything more about them than just their name, eg. ‘GCJ’ ‘TB’ ‘Men.C’
If we had also been given an HPV vaccine you can bet in wouldn’t have meant anything to us at all, and we would have made no connections with sex, therefore I can’t agree that it’s like giving children carte blanche to go off and have sex.
Secondly as the poster above me notes, you DO NOT have to have sex to get the HPV virus, even good monogomous Christian women are at risk, we are all at risk.
Bearing in mind these two points surely if this vaccine can reduce levels of cervical cancer then to object to it on religious grounds is misguided and harmful.