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Mandating Gardasil: A Gross Infringement On Parental Rights
standardnewswire.com ^ | 02/09/07 | Unknown

Posted on 02/09/2007 11:44:19 AM PST by Froufrou

Children of God for Life is urging West Virginia lawmakers to scrap HB 2835 mandating Merck's new Gardasil HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine.

Following last week' hotly debated Executive Order by Governor Perry to mandate Gardasil in Texas, West Virginia is the latest of at least two dozen states proposing to add the controversial vaccine as a requirement for school attendance. However, unlike Texas and 48 other states including DC, which have laws allowing parents to opt-out, WVA and Mississippi are the only two States that do not provide religious or philosophical exemptions for vaccines.

"It is utterly disgraceful that WVA would force this vaccine on families, especially when their State law provides no relief to those who object to other vaccines," stated Children of God for Life Executive Director, Debi Vinnedge. "Even if they include an opt-out for Gardasil, such a move would be unconstitutional for parents who have religious objections to other vaccines, such as those using aborted fetal cell lines."

While Gardasil does not utilize aborted fetal cell lines – a primary focus of Children of God for Life, the group noted it raises other moral concerns. And they are not alone. Since Perry's actions last week, numerous family and medical groups agree that this is a family decision for the parents – not the State.

In a statement released Jan 22, the American College of Pediatrics noted that mandating Gardasil for school attendance "is a serious, precedent-setting action" replacing parental medical decision making with government regulations.

Likewise, Focus on the Family warned last year, that state officials, not parents, would become the primary sexual-health decision makers for America's children.

Vinnedge noted, "Mandating Gardasil is like the State mandating condoms for children. And neither one is effective at preventing cervical cancer. The HPV virus's incubation period is 20 years, yet this vaccine was tested for only 4 years. No one knows whether this will prevent cervical cancer at all."

Last year the Associated Press reported the FDA warning that, "any advantage the vaccine provides in protecting against the four virus types could be offset by infection by any of the multiple [over 100] other types of HPV that the vaccine does not cover." The FDA further noted that "the vaccine may lead to an increased number of cases of a cancer precursor among patients already infected by any of the four virus types at the time they receive the vaccine, and whose immune systems have not cleared the virus from their bodies."

"West Virginia is already a quagmire of contention in their antiquated State regulations on vaccines," noted Vinnedge. "If they intend to mandate Gardasil, they must provide an opt-out clause and add religious exemptions for other vaccines as well. Anything less would be a gross infringement on parental rights."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: cogforlife; debivinnedge; gardasil; hpv; hpvvaccine; merck; rickperry
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To: Froufrou
Yep, It's headed here to NY.

. . . assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Scarsdale) will introduce legislation mandating girls be inoculated. . .

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/495996p-417953c.html
121 posted on 02/09/2007 4:44:43 PM PST by stentorian conservative
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To: stentorian conservative

They will not be happy until every pocket is lined.


122 posted on 02/09/2007 4:52:42 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: CholeraJoe

The time between getting HPV and developing cervical cancer is up to 20 years.


123 posted on 02/09/2007 4:57:28 PM PST by luckystarmom
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To: stentorian conservative

I'll be sure to contact my assemblyman.


124 posted on 02/09/2007 4:58:56 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Alter Kaker

You should go on some of the threads about vaccines and autism.

Or how about freepers that think too many kids are on ritalin.

Many freepers are concerned about the safety of drugs and vaccines on our children, and it has nothing to do with sex.


125 posted on 02/09/2007 5:00:02 PM PST by luckystarmom
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To: metmom

This is worse. It's lives at stake now.

And I just realized they're doing this on girls 9 to 11.

911. Funny coincidence. And I do know it's a coincidence, it's just a very interesting one.


126 posted on 02/09/2007 5:00:04 PM PST by Nevernow (No one has the right to choose to do what is wrong.)
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To: neverdem; The Mayor

Ping to post 121.


127 posted on 02/09/2007 5:00:41 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Nevernow

And I just realized they're doing this on girls 9 to 11.

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9 year olds are 3rd graders


128 posted on 02/09/2007 5:02:16 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: LtdGovt

You would be wrong. It is most effective before girls are sexually active.

However, one of the side effects is painful periods so they want young girls to get the vaccine early so they don't get the painful periods.


129 posted on 02/09/2007 5:11:54 PM PST by luckystarmom
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To: Nevernow
It's against the wishes of the girls themselves.

It was against my wishes to get vaccinated, too. But now that I'm older and (I hope) somewhat wiser, I think that it was good for me.

Perry did basically say they would all have sex.

And they will. I haven't heard of a renewed popularity of a lifelong celibacy pledge. That doesn't make them w-'s.

Parents doing this for pure religious reasons don't want their daughters to have it as punishment for sex, but because they're sure they've raised daughters who won't have sex and will be put at risks from side effects for something that they don't need to be protected from in the first place.

Then they would be ultimately concerned about safety - which they are not, unfortunately.
130 posted on 02/09/2007 5:12:50 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Diogenesis
Your lack of medical knowledge, Newbie status, and utter lack of understanding of informed consent, etc. suggest you work for Merck or Perry in Texas or have other connection to this. Which is it?

I'm an evil Merck-employee who is conspiring with Perry to hurt the children of Texas. Be very afraid! /s
131 posted on 02/09/2007 5:13:42 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: keepitreal
Even if it saves one life.......

It's a nice ideal, but... keep it real. It doesn't work that way. We cannot spend millions of dollars to save one, the country would go bankrupt.
132 posted on 02/09/2007 5:14:51 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: keepitreal

You're right. I might be thinking of Scotland, sorry.

It is approved for 9 year olds though, and people are pushing for it to be done that early because they probably haven't had sex yet, which makes it the safest. 11 is the next big number being pushed, that's probably where I'm getting 9-11 from (that's what I get for posting at 2 am).


133 posted on 02/09/2007 5:15:19 PM PST by Nevernow (No one has the right to choose to do what is wrong.)
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To: metmom
Not for religious freedom either, I see.

Yes I am for religious freedom. People should be free to do whatever they want with themselves. But that doesn't mean that they have the right to hurt their children.
134 posted on 02/09/2007 5:16:15 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: LtdGovt

First of all, I respect your opinion that girls should be vaccinated against their will because Big Brother knows better, but I disagree. There are plenty of people alive today who wish they never had been vaccinated.

Do you read minds, and that is how you know parents aren't concerned about the health of their children? Because I've met some very religious people, and none of them have wavered in doing what they felt was best for the health of their children.


135 posted on 02/09/2007 5:18:27 PM PST by Nevernow (No one has the right to choose to do what is wrong.)
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To: LtdGovt

So why not refrain from spending all that unnecessary money on the vaccine for girls when all that needs to be done is a regular pap smear, not a 600 dollar vaccine?


136 posted on 02/09/2007 5:19:53 PM PST by Nevernow (No one has the right to choose to do what is wrong.)
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To: Nevernow
. 1 percent of 55 is .55 That means 1 in 200 women, not 1 in 60 women,

Uhm, 1 percent of 60 percent IS .60%, not 1 in 60 women.

If every woman has regular pap smears, do you know how many women will get cervical cancer from HPV? According to everything Merck has said, NONE.

Well, that would be even better.

So I ask, why is a vaccine needed to do something that a simple regular checkup can do? It costs less than a vaccine, too, and should be done anyway for other health concerns.

Certainly, I'm very pragmatic. And I'm not a doctor.

Penile cancer survival rate is 50%. So doesn't it make sense to protect boys, or are they allowed to risk their own health when girls aren't?

Survival rates don't matter, it matters how many people get penile cancer. I suspect that the rate is very low.
137 posted on 02/09/2007 5:20:12 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: LtdGovt
But that doesn't mean that they have the right to hurt their children.

And considering the vaccine's track record, that's just what could happen if they are forced to get it. So it's OK for the government to hurt other people's children?

138 posted on 02/09/2007 5:20:47 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: LtdGovt

If it is hurting your children to disagree that the government knows best about what undertested substance to stick into their bodies, then I shall be a proud child abuser.


139 posted on 02/09/2007 5:20:58 PM PST by Nevernow (No one has the right to choose to do what is wrong.)
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To: luckystarmom
Gardasil tripled the rate of gastroenteritis (0.03% GARDASIL vs. 0.01% Placebo),
doubled the rate of appendicitis(0.02% GARDASIL vs. 0.01% Placebo),and doubled the rate of pelvic inflammatory disease (0.02% GARDASIL vs. 0.01% Placebo).

Of course these were short studies, so autoimmune diseases
and cancer caused by the vaccine could not assessed.

"Don't let the side effects get in the way of our profits."

140 posted on 02/09/2007 5:22:33 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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