You kinda touched a nerve there by bringing up autism, what with my being a high-functioning autistic and all. If it's something that's supposed to be there from birth (my dad suspected it in me when I was little, before I went through the barrage of vaccinations and well before my official diagnosis at 19), I really don't think vaccinations have anything to do with it. I personally think it's little more than curebie parents grasping at straws to find something to place the blame on because they don't know what to do with their autistic kids.
As it is, the whole cervical cancer vaccine issue also touches a nerve with me, as my mom had cervical cancer when I was very young, and she ended up having to get a full hysterectomy to remove it. (Take that, idiot fundies who think that only promiscuous women get/should get it!) Even though it's not hereditary, I still worry a little that I might get it eventually. Where was this vaccine a few years ago or so when I was still in the recommended age window and before I first became sexually active?
Maybe it's just me, but I honestly don't see what is so wrong with the idea in theory, lobbying and lack of testing aside (both of which I'll agree leave me on the semi-tentative side). Kids are already required to get a whole bunch of other vaccines for school, aren't they? Nobody seems to complain about those. It's just another shot that girls have to get, that's all. As it is, they've been saying on the news that parents can choose to opt out of it for various reasons (including religious reasons), so I don't see why there's an uproar over the whole idea that they're being "forced" into it.
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As it is, the whole cervical cancer vaccine issue also touches a nerve with me, as my mom had cervical cancer when I was very young, and she ended up having to get a full hysterectomy to remove it. (Take that, idiot fundies who think that only promiscuous women get/should get it!) Even though it's not hereditary, I still worry a little that I might get it eventually. Where was this vaccine a few years ago or so when I was still in the recommended age window and before I first became sexually active?
Maybe it's just me, but I honestly don't see what is so wrong with the idea in theory, lobbying and lack of testing aside (both of which I'll agree leave me on the semi-tentative side). Kids are already required to get a whole bunch of other vaccines for school, aren't they? Nobody seems to complain about those. It's just another shot that girls have to get, that's all. As it is, they've been saying on the news that parents can choose to opt out of it for various reasons (including religious reasons), so I don't see why there's an uproar over the whole idea that they're being "forced" into it.