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To: rintense
HPV is not a communicable disease, and quite frankly, its tantamount to encouraging young teens to have sex.

That is what Santorum was suggesting in his pointed comments about what Perry expected Texas school girls to learn.

1,519 posted on 09/12/2011 7:33:57 PM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw; rintense

We need to cut out the paranoia here:

The HPV vaccine saves lives lost due to cervical cancer. It’s no more an inducement to sex than a tetanus shot is an inducement to jumping on rusty nails.

In Texas, there is an ‘opt out’ provision so that NO parent is forced against their will to have their child take vaccines. The HPV vaccine was to be administered under that regime, and so their children can be as unprotected as their parents wished, nobody would have been forced to take it:

http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements/texas.aspx

“Each student shall be fully immunized against diphtheria, rubeola, rubella, mumps, tetanus, and poliomyelitis, except as provided by Subsection (c). ...
A child is exempt from an immunization required by this section if:

(1) a parent, managing conservator, or guardian states that the immunization is being declined for reasons of conscience, including a religious belief; or
(2) the immunization is medically contraindicated based on the opinion of a physician licensed by any state in the United States who has examined the child.


1,728 posted on 09/12/2011 8:12:31 PM PDT by WOSG
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