So, now there is a vaccine for the STD HPV (Human Papilloma Virus), some strains of which cause cervical cancer, and which 80% of sexually active women (yes, you read that right) contract by the age of 50 because it is very difficult to detect in men, isn't prevented by condoms, and can be transmitted without symptoms. Luckily, for most women, the immune system either combats it on its own or it is medically treated, and they won't develop cancer. But it is one of the largest growing women's health issues out there, and the vaccine is a real blessing, which could be administered along with all other childhood vaccines to eliminate the virus. Since this medical breakthrough, the Christian right opposed it because it might "undermine the abstinence-only message" (according to Focus on the Family's Reginald Finger) and "giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful because they may see it as a license to engage in premarital sex." (according to Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council). The Christian righties are backing off slightly now and changing their tune publicly, according to a Nerve article I just read, because they rightly are having a bit of a public identity problem with claiming to be pro-life while opposing a vaccine that would save at least 10,000 women who get HPV-caused cervical cancer, and 3500 women who die from it every year. But at the same time, they also see it as their duty to lock a chastity belt on every unmarried woman and damn her to hell if she transgresses. So they are somewhat stuck between a rock and a hard place (apparently, the only hard place the virginal religious right ever admit to being stuck between).

I see right through their BS change of official position. They don't give a damn about women with cervical cancer, just as they don't give a damn about people with AIDS, because they see it as punishment for the sin of sex. They just don't like that their hypocrisy is being so blatantly exposed. I'd like to remind them to read those damn bibles they keep waving around and keep their mouths shut. I don't know why we are asking their opinion about a medical vaccine anyway. I wasn't aware they had any right to impose or revoke death sentences on American women one way or another.

 

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