Re: Fwd: Merck lobbies states to require?cervical-cancervaccine for schoolgirls

[Guest guest]

As a Medic, a Father and a Husband, I had the physical and emotional

pain and experience of watching my wife suffer from cervical cancer,

through Gods good grace and the excellent doctors of MD she

beat it.

So regardless of the politics (And they sure suck) I would spare my

daughter or anyone elses daughter that,

Even if is doing it for the wrong reasons then we would be

fools not to take advantage.

As for parenting, one subscriber said it well enough, one never knows

the whole history of her future partner/husband

Enuff Said

Dave AREMT-P/DMT-A/OSM

>

> Tom,

>

> Unfurtunately, lots of girls don't have the blessing of having a

caring

> father like you, so what about them? What about the unfortunate

child who gets

> sexually abused, raped, or who just falls for the " girls gone wild "

culture.

>

> And, my friend, no matter how good a father you are, today, when a

kid is a

> block away from home, it might as well be 1,000 miles away.

>

> An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We live in a

society where

> everything is turned

> upside down. I have, in my career as a lawyer and as a paramedic,

seen far

> too much. I have seen 10 year old mothers. I have seen church

going

> parents who were astounded to learn that their daughter was

pregnant. I remember

> one father who told me that his daughter COULD NOT be pregnant as

we rolled her

> into L & D, and shortly after that she delivered a healthy baby

boy. He still

> couldn't believe it until the nurse told him that there were only

two women

> in that delivery room, and one of them had a baby, and it sure

wasn't her.

>

> The problem is larger than that of one family's approach. It is a

public

> health problem. It is not a political issue, or should not be.

Cervical

> cancer may be preventable with this vaccine. How can we, as a

society, not

> address it in terms of the social costs of lack of prevention?

>

> We can spend a billion dollars a week in Iraq, so why can't we

spend a tiny

> little bit of money, in comparison, to save the lives of our

daughters?

>

> BTW, wonder where that 12 billion that's unaccounted for went? It

sure

> didn't go for vaccinations.

>

> Gene G.

>

>

>

>

> >

> > Don't forget this is a vaccine for a sexually transmitted

disease. I don't

> > think a 12 yoa girl needs it. Later after puberty and the

possibility is

> > discussed about whether or not going to be sexually promiscuous

is discussed. I

> > have a 12 yoa and she won't get it until she is older and knows

the risks of

> > sex outside of marriage.

> >

> > Tom LeNeveu

> > Paramedic

> > Fort Worth Texas

> >

> > Re: [texa

> >

> > Shall we remove the requirement for the other vaccinations as

well???

> >

> > Do not forget that parents can opt out if they so choose.

Personally,

> > it seems like a very good thing. If my daughter were still that

young,

> > she damn sure would get it.

> >

> > Dick - FF/EMT-B

> > Celina Fire Department

> >

> >