Professor, you should read this and see if it sounds like these people want their children to be protected from this type of cancer, come hell or high water, or if they're more worried about them being sexually active. http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IF07B01&v=PRINT
Ok, I read the article. Where does it mention that Republicans want women to get cervical cancer? Did I miss this? How do we know that Democrats and Republicans aren't all in this group? Why only Republicans? Am I missing something?
Notice the non-answer, Professor?
I am sure Lanya perhaps read too much into the article or posted the wrong article since I do not see the word "Republican" anywhere in it. Perhaps I missed it?
To catch you up on our controversy.
Months ago Lanya brought to our attention an article about certain persons attitude twards a certain vaccine , this was news to most of us , but the thread heading was to the effect that Republicans want women to die of cancer.
Coming from so far out of left field this has become a catch phrase in our community which represents an overblown accusation , that is to say "Republicans want women to die of cancer" has been repeated by our conservative members to allude to this particular incident whenever another accusation seems exaggerated .
In fact there has never been found a Republican committee in charge of increasing Womens cancer rates , nor even a few persons who want this vaccine to be made unavailable to anyone , at most there are some people who do object to the vaccine becoming mandatory for everyone.
During the course of this thread I have learned that the vaccine in question has great effectiveness against some HPV but that there are some less common HPV strains that the vaccine is ineffective against.
This may mean that persons would consider themselves protected after the vaccination , but would not be protected from the alternate strain at all , this could lead to the uncommon strains becoming common and spreading widely through the population. This disease has a long latent period , and transmission could occur before any symptoms did. The lifesaving potential of the vaccine would be wasted if the persons protected by it were not aware that there were still dangerous viruses ready to attack them.
This leads me to the notion that the total effect of this vaccine could be a greater number of cancer cases , if it is carelessly applied , and thus the accusation that all Democrats want women to die of cancer.