Vaccines can cause more trouble than they're worth, but if this vaccine is tried and true, I'll sing its praises until sundown. The ones who will harp against it, claiming teen sex, will be using it for their own agendas at the risk of women's health, something they have no problems sacrificing for a vote or a donation dollar.
You have to understand that the groups who fight these things are not people that I associate with Christianity, no matter how much they use, manipulate and abuse the words of the Bible for their ends. I see them as political wolves, seeking to preserve the authority and privilege of their own interests. I think they'd sell out their own mothers if it benefitted them.
Regardless of people's agendas, there is a difference in the argument against contraception and vaccines. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a vaccine. People have multiple agendas, but I don't care about the reasons why you hold a point of view, I only care whether your claim is valid. If it is, I'll adopt it.
I would think that it's not so much the vaccine itself but the supposed after effects that are worrying about. The line of thought would go something like this (Crude thought this be); vaccine prevents STD, STD equals worry (Abour pre-marital sex), STD gone equals less worry, vaccine equals more pre-marital sex. Whether or not this is correct is debatable, but the vaccine isn't opposed because it's like a contraceptive.
i have been really frustrated with the opposition to this vaccine. IMHO, most of the abstinence education movement's tactics involve fear- we had someone come to a confirmation class I taught and show a video of 13 year olds with cervical cancer to convince people not to have sex. In general i find fear mongering an inappropriate catechetical approach, but that's another homily for another time.
So if they stop having cervical cancer to hang over people's heads, how will they convince teenage girls that they will receive divine punishment for having sex?
I don't know, I think fear is fine as long as it's true. I don't want cervical cancer (especially being a guy) and I also want to have children if I do get married. I want to be told the truth, even if it makes me afraid, but it's gotta be true.
As for convincing teenage girls not to have sex? Most teenage girls I talk to that abstain do so out of respect for themselves rather than disease. But most of them know little about HPV anyway.
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You have to understand that the groups who fight these things are not people that I associate with Christianity, no matter how much they use, manipulate and abuse the words of the Bible for their ends. I see them as political wolves, seeking to preserve the authority and privilege of their own interests. I think they'd sell out their own mothers if it benefitted them.
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So if they stop having cervical cancer to hang over people's heads, how will they convince teenage girls that they will receive divine punishment for having sex?
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As for convincing teenage girls not to have sex? Most teenage girls I talk to that abstain do so out of respect for themselves rather than disease. But most of them know little about HPV anyway.
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