Keep Feeling Vaccinations

If you haven't already heard about the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for young girls, you need to pay attention. Essentially, last August Merck came out with Gardasil (not to be confused with Vagisil), which is supposed to prevent cervical cancer. The "target audience" is females between the ages of 9-26. The governor of Texas signed an executive order to forcibily innoculate girls aged 11-12. I'm sure there are some loopholes to exercise so a parent doesn't have to subject their daughter to this but how many parents are doing so? In this age of the sheep most would rather comply than fight back. Meanwhile, New York State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Scarsdale) has introduced legislation to innoculate school aged girls. Her proposal leaves the Health Department in charge of setting appropriate ages. She highly approves what happened in Texas and says a companion bill will be introduced in the NYS Senate. That may have already happened.

What's the problem with all of this? Forcing people--no matter what age--to be vaccinated is plain Orwellian. Furthermore, Merck the pharmaceutical giant behind the shot, is lobbies lawmakers to pass these laws. At $360 whether your health insurance or Medicaid pays for it, it's money in Merck's pocket. They're also marketing the hell out of this to potential consumers. The Buffalo area Planned Parenthood is leading the charge. A recent Buffalo News article quotes a spokesperson,

"Since the fall, Planned Parenthood's two pediatric care programs have been offering the vaccine to parents for their daughters."We've not had one negative response," said Colleen Schiffhauer, director of medical services. "Every single patient has gotten a vaccine who was in the age group [9 and older]. Not one of the parents of the patients has refused to vaccinate their child." Schiffhauer estimated that the clinic had vaccinated "a couple of hundred" girls so far. Other clinics and private medical practices in the area also have begun offering the vaccine. And in mid-March, Planned Parenthood plans to make the vaccine available at all its clinics so that young women, along with girls, will have access to it."


"We've not had one negative response..." Of course not. Did you fully inform them about it? It's a new vaccine made by the idiots that brought you Vioxx. We know how that went. Can you say "classaction lawsuit"? Did you tell them that according to opensecrets.org, pharmaceutical manufacturing gave over ten million dollars to election campagins in 2006? It's easy to gain full acceptance when you don't provide the facts. Normally I'm very supportive of Planned Parenthood, but not in this case. Call your State Assemblyman or Senator and tell them to just say no to mandated medicine. Let people decide for themselves.