Let the whores die!

Consider a 13-year-old girl. She will most likely be sexually active. Sexually active Americans have a better than 50 percent chance of contracting the human papillomavirus over their lifetime. HPV is the most common of the sexually transmitted diseases. It is also the No. 1 cause of cervical cancer, which kills half a million American women a year. Two companies have developed a vaccine that protects against HPV's deadliest strains. The vaccine virtually eliminates a woman's chance of contracting HPV, thus drastically cutting her chances of developing cervical cancer. I would not hesitate to inoculate my daughter the moment the vaccine becomes available, regardless of her age. The vaccine won't dictate whether she becomes sexually active sooner. Anyone who believes so is a bag-o-douche. Sparing her death seems to me a greater moral imperative than fretting over her sex life.

Empirical studies have shown that virginity pledgers do NOT have lower rates of pregnancy or STD's. In fact, they are at a higher risk for STD's because not only are they being taught in schools that contraception and condoms don't work, but they also engage in more risky behavior, such as anal sex. They are also less likely to know their STD status, thus raising the chances of long-term health risks as well as spreading infection to others unknowingly. This is extremely concerning, since a recent study published in the April issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health revealed that 88% of so called "virginity" pledgers have sex before marriage.

The Food and Drug Administration will decide by June whether to approve the vaccine. I'm not hopeful, given recent history of agencies that serve as an extension of the Bush administration's neo-puritan view of the world. Two years ago the FDA's advisory committee voted 23-4 in favor of making the morning-after contraceptive pill available over the counter. The FDA's staff had reached similarly supportive conclusions.

For the first time in history, the FDA -- reflecting religious conservatives' lechery for sham morality -- rejected those recommendations, ostensibly because it was worried that adolescents would have more sex if they had access to the pill. Conservatives are raising the same objections to the HPV vaccine. Imagine when we hear moral objections to an HIV vaccine.

The Ridiculous Reich would rather let their daughters die from cancer.
It seems very much like a ritualistic sacrifice.
Except, the Ridiculous Reich will find out quickly that their pure daughters aren't even virgins.