And why doesn't my health insurance cover such a good preventative vaccine?
At over six hundred dollars for the series, I suppose getting cervical cancer is cheaper.

Representative Page deserves alot of credit for his public stand for the health of our children. I am wondering what kind of reception this got?

Preventing cervical cancer is honorable but do parents really want the government telling them that their 9 year old daughter must have a vaccine to prevent something only sexually transmitted? If this passes, why not medically fit every 9 year old girl with an IUD, afterall, isn't every girl going to have sex beginning at age nine? Merck has done a great sell job with the CDC but parents need to take notice.

Esther, it's not as if this vaccine is providing birth control, or planting the seed of sexual desire in the minds of prepubescent girls. It's preventing a virus that is incurable, and that can lead to cancer, and happens to be sexually transmitted (FYI, not all men are faithful, so why place the burden of fidelity on women?). Would you also oppose a vaccine for HIV, or antibiotics to treat gonnorhea?

Alissa, I'm not opposed to this vaccine for adult women...it is the 9 year old girls who don't need it...If you have daughters, would you want to sit them down and say, "honey, here comes this shot...now, it is in case you have sex with a boy, and here is what that means and how you do that...I know you don't know much about it but I'm sure you will in a year or so...." Of course, discovery of a vaccine such as this is a research miracle but, it is ridiculous to believe young girls should be mandated this vaccine.

By the way, Merck is making BILLIONS on this, and it is they who recommend the young age.

Requiring such a vaccination as prevention does not preclude attempts to instill moral values as families see fit.

Rep. Page is truly making strides to prevent young women and girls from being exposed to a potentially fatal disease.

Public health has three core functions: assessment, assurance, and policy. What better example than protecting young women from a preventable virus, assuring the community of a vaccines efficacy and treatment options, and finally developing policy to address the need for appropriate conversations around sexual expression.

I wholeheartedly agree that as a community we need to engage and re-engage our young ones in conversations about appropriate expressions of "sexual-ness" and along with that, discussions about "sexuality." But we as a public health community also have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and in this case, young women and girls, from succumbing to a preventable disease.

Mary presented the argument far more coherently (and less snarkily) than I could have hoped.

Prevention works best if vaccines are administered before exposure could have occurred. Almost EVERY. SINGLE. VACCINE. is given prior to the age of 18. That includes Hepatitis A, which can be sexually transmitted, as well as food-borne. Are you explaining the implications of every other vaccine to your children? Why should this be different?

You may also note that almost all health plans are only covering the vaccine up to age 26.

Please see the MO.gov website on the immunization requirements for the State of Missouri.

http://www.dhss.mo.gov/Immunizations/Records.html

Also note that MO is one of 48 states allowing a religious exemption and 15 allowing medical exemption. However, I would caution if you are considering religious exemption, please please do an appropriate risk-benefit analysis.

cancer anatomy tongue cancer tongue causes

of main skin types cancer skin of common types cancer