Sherry Chandler » Some news you may have missed in 2005
Some news you may have missed in 2005
On the op-ed page of today’s NYTimes, William Falk has a list of news “of subtle significance” that you may have missed in all the excitement over hurricanes and unwarranted spying.
I am particularly fond of this one:
FORBIDDEN VACCINE Ever[y] year, about 500,000 women throughout the world develop cervical cancer. In the United States alone, the disease kills about 3,700 women annually. This year, scientists developed a vaccine against human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease that is the primary cause of cervical cancer. The vaccine produced 100 percent immunity in the 6,000 women who received it as part of a multinational trial. As soon as the vaccine is licensed, some health officials say, it should be administered to all girls at age 12. But the Family Research Council and other social conservative groups vowed to fight that plan, even though it could virtually eliminate cervical cancer. Vaccinating girls against a sexually transmitted disease, they say, would reduce their incentive to abstain from premarital sex
I’m not sure I find the significance of this tidbit so subtle.
I went to school over at Georgetown College with Gary Bauer. He was a sort of Big Man on that little campus but he didn’t look like a monster…
P.S. I do know that he’s moved on from the Family Research Council.
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