Good News For Women ... News That The Christian Right Fought Hard To Prevent

FDA OKs first cervical cancer vaccine
From Christy Feig CNN
Thursday, June 8, 2006;

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first vaccine for cervical cancer -- Gardasil, manufactured by Merck and Co.

Studies show virtually all cases of cervical cancer are caused by a virus known as human papillomavirus, or HPV. It is transmitted sexually and most of the time human immune systems can get rid of it, but in about 10,000 women a year it develops into cervical cancer.

There are more than 70 different types of HPV. Dr. Kevin Ault of Emory University School of Medicine, who led one of the clinical trials, said this vaccine protects against four of them, but they are the four most significant

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But Before CNN could report this, there was a campaign by the true Culture Of Death Movement to stop this development (NewScientist.com)

In the US, for instance, religious groups are gearing up to oppose vaccination, despite a survey showing 80 per cent of parents favour vaccinating their daughters. "Abstinence is the best way to prevent HPV," says Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council, a leading Christian lobby group that has made much of the fact that, because it can spread by skin contact, condoms are not as effective against HPV as they are against other viruses such as HIV.

"Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex," Maher claims, though it is arguable how many young women have even heard of the virus.