RELIGIOUS RIGHT AGAINST CANCER VACCINE

[Meta Blog]

By Martin Lindeskog from EGO,cross-posted by MetaBlog

Here is another example on how the religious right is pushing its agenda. Here is an excerpt from Danny Fortson's article, Moral majority take on GSK and Merck over cancer drugs.

Conservative groups, including the influential Family Research Council (FRC), have voiced concerns that immunising young girls against the virus that most regularly causes cervical cancer, Human Papilloma- virus, may lead to sexual promiscuity. "We would oppose any measures to legally require vaccination or to coerce parents into authorising it," wrote the FRC in a recent letter to the US government. "Our primary concern is with the message that would be delivered to nine- to 12-year-olds with the administration of the vaccines. Care must be taken not to communicate that such an intervention makes all sex 'safe'." (News.independent.co.uk, 06/11/06.)

Related: My post, THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IS DEBATED IN WALL STREET JOURNAL.

http://ObjectivismOnline.com/blog/archives/000948.html

[Qwertz]

"We would oppose any measures to legally require vaccination or to coerce parents into authorising it."

Such careful wording. Tricky of them. Though their true motives are transparent to anyone choosing to exercise a modicum of thought, such sound bytes could win them a great number of mindless followers and supporters for their other causes.

-Q