They'll Just Fuck More

It's hard to believe these loonies are allowed to wander the streets, let alone have any access to the powers that be. Ellen Goodman on the loony right's attitude on the HPV vaccine:

There was a time when only the loony left believed that the loony right favored death over sex. Not any more.

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Needless to say, the success story was greeted with cork-popping enthusiasm by doctors. Eliav Barr of the beleaguered Merck, one of the two companies to develop a vaccine, offered a toast: “This is it. This is the Holy Grail.”

But it appears that social conservatives aren't drinking from the same chalice.

This was the response of Leslie Unruh of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse: “I personally object to vaccinating children against a disease that is 100 percent preventable with proper sexual behavior.”

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Fear-mongering as a public health tactic is very popular this days. There is the endless disinformation campaign that links abortion to breast cancer. There are the burgeoning abstinence-or-else classes riddled with misinformation.

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Your tax dollars are at work — to the tune of a billion dollars — teaching students that touching another person's genitals “can result in pregnancy,” that “there's no such thing as 'safe' or 'safer' sex” and that loneliness, embarrassment, substance abuse and personal disappointment “can be eliminated by being abstinent until marriage.”

More at the link.