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Your Body or The Governments ??

RunForestRunForest Member Posts: 494 ✭✭✭
edited January 2007 in General Discussion
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16891832/

AUSTIN, Texas - Merck & Co. is helping bankroll efforts to pass state laws requiring girls as young as 11 or 12 to receive the drugmaker's new vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.

Some conservatives and parents'-rights groups say such a requirement would encourage premarital sex and interfere with the way they raise their children, and they say Merck's push for such laws is underhanded. But the company said its lobbying efforts have been above-board.
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  • catpealer111catpealer111 Member Posts: 10,695
    edited November -1
    In my case, when I signed on the dotted line one year ago, it became the Governments body. They got screwed.
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  • gagirlgagirl Member Posts: 5,408
    edited November -1
    No differenent then the vacs kids have to get to be in school IMO.
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  • RunForestRunForest Member Posts: 494 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gagirl
    No differenent then the vacs kids have to get to be in school IMO.


    those are for communicable diseases. this isnt one of them. but what happened to the argument that a womens body is her choice ?
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  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by RunForest
    quote:Originally posted by gagirl
    No differenent then the vacs kids have to get to be in school IMO.


    those are for communicable diseases. this isnt one of them. but what happened to the argument that a womens body is her choice ?
    Colorado's considering making it mandatory, with parents having to opt-out of the vaccine for their children.

    The woman's body is her choice so long as it suits the government's purpose (to further abortion on demand). Otherwise, it is, like everything else, the government's property, not yours.
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  • TexasVetTexasVet Member Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by RunForest
    quote:Originally posted by gagirl
    No differenent then the vacs kids have to get to be in school IMO.


    those are for communicable diseases. this isnt one of them. but what happened to the argument that a womens body is her choice ?


    sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.
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  • spurgemasturspurgemastur Member Posts: 5,655 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by TexasVet
    quote:Originally posted by RunForest
    quote:Originally posted by gagirl
    No differenent then the vacs kids have to get to be in school IMO.


    those are for communicable diseases. this isnt one of them. but what happened to the argument that a womens body is her choice ?


    sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.



    I'd argue that it's still a different sort of communicable disease. The vaccinations that are currently required could be spread to other people just because a sick person is in casual contact with them. A sexually transmitted disease does not affect the public at large in the same way.

    I think the vaccine is a great idea, and if they were my kids, I'd want them to have it. But I don't think the government should be mandating this.

    I don't see how mandating a Lyme disease vaccination (in those states where Lyme disease is a problem) would be any different. I'm vaccinated....but I'm glad it was my choice to do so.

    I think Merck thinks that the mandatory vaccine is a great idea[V]. And that's where I stop, or I'll invoke the auto-censor or worse.
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  • TexasVetTexasVet Member Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree, was just pointing out that it was an STD.

    No one should have to get a shot for anything if they don't want it.
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  • KodiakkKodiakk Member Posts: 5,582
    edited November -1
    I strongly disagree.
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  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I disagree to agree.
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  • brier-49brier-49 Member Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The vacine may or may not be agood thing,just because Merck says it's good doesn't make it good.Having the government make it law is moving into communism,the government has no right to tell us what to do with our own bodies.Merck is pushing very hard right now because the democrats are in power and will gladly back this because it fits their idea of control.If more people would read political history the y would find that therepublicans are just like the democrats were in the 1950's and the democrats are moving ing the same line as the Soviet Union in the 50's,communisum.
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  • Colonel PlinkColonel Plink Member Posts: 16,460
    edited November -1
    Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a new drug?

    If it is, then, I'm not for making it mandatory until all the tests are in.

    But I'm paranoid.
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  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Colonel Plink
    Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a new drug?

    If it is, then, I'm not for making it mandatory until all the tests are in.

    But I'm paranoid.
    Why aren't we testing it on our troops first, like we did with the anthrax vaccine? We didn't give them a choice to take it or not. So what if guys don't have a cervix!

    Vote Tommy Thompson in 2008. He'll push hard to force all Americans to have an implanted chip, just like a dog.
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  • mrseatlemrseatle Member Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Colonel Plink
    Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a new drug?

    If it is, then, I'm not for making it mandatory until all the tests are in.

    But I'm paranoid.


    I agree, imagine if an unseen side effect caused all the women to die of cancer 20 years later, after 19 years of mandatory injections.
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