19 June 2007
Cervical cancer vaccine
A life-saving vaccine against cervical cancer could be offered to all young girls in their first year at secondary school in the UK. Good news, you'd think, eh? Only some are not seeing it that way according to the Guardian's Kira Cochrane...
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Oh god! Because the main reason girls don't have underage sex is because they are worried about getting cervical cancer? What universe do these people live in?
It's interesting that they vaccinate teenage girls (not boys, I think) against rubella, to protect the unborn child should the adult pregnant woman get rubella and that doesn't attract any criticism at all. Surely this is just a similar, equally sensible measure?
And according to the BBC, the UK are the only ones dragging their heels on this. Hmmm.
Switzerland gave it the green light this week, following on the heels of Austria, Germany, Italy, France, Norway, Luxembourg and Belgium. It has also been approved in Australia and several US states.
Oh, it's been agreed for Northern Ireland apparently.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6224592.stm
Reading over someone's shoulder in the bus the other day, the outraged headline read SEX CANCER JABS FOR GIRLS AS YOUNG AS TWELVE. I think it was the
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