Balko on Religious Right Opposition to HPV Vaccine

Radley Balko saw the Family Research Council's insane statement about the new HPV vaccine too. And he riffed on it pretty hard:

So to prevent theoretical additional occurences of premarital sex, Maher's okay with unnecessarily subjecting young women to fucking cancer? Holy moral rectitude, Bridget. You have to wonder, would the Family Research Council oppose distribution of an AIDS vaccine, too -- because it might spark an increase in gay sex?

Well yes, I imagine they might. Because they truly are dangerously fanatical.

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"Thou shalt not kill."

How is opposing a potentially life-saving vaccine anything but accessory to murder? So much for the ten commandments, huh?

I get more curious all the time, how the various doctors, and health practioners, who are members of groups like the FRC, justify the necessary ignoring of their hippocratic oaths, in order to support these sorts of actions.

It is too weirdly hypocritical to argue in favor of ID while holding the view that certain diseases--for which there are cures, vaccines, treatment regimens(all springing from the complexification of the grand design)--are the creator's way of punishing sinners.

Just because HPV can be sexually transmitted doesn't make it "fucking cancer." Oh wait, I guess it does.