Further thoughts on the HPV vaccine
Another thought occurs to me. I noted that there are groups of people actually opposed to allowing a vaccine for Human Papilloma Virus (which causes most forms of cervical cancer) to be given to girls. Apparently it is most effective when given after puberty, but before sexual activity.
And some religious nutbag group is against it because they think that it will lead to their little darling princesses becoming raging sluts. OK, they didn’t put it that way, but they believe that this vaccine will cause greater sexual promiscuity.
And so the question that comes to my mind is “If you have to rely upon your daughter’s fear of having her ability to produce children taken away, or of dying an horrific death to cervical cancer to keep her chaste, what does that say about your parenting skills?”