▲ 561 ▼ Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab (www.bbc.co.uk) submitted 1 month ago* by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world 50 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 child) I remember waaaaay back in 2007, when Texas Governor Rick Perry tried to include the HPV shot in the standard school vaccination requirements. And the party turned on him like a rabid dog. It haunted him all the way into his 2012 Presidential campaign. The GOP was hopping on that anti-vax bandwagon decades earlier than a lot of people realize. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago I think this vaccine was especially upsetting for right wing folks, since it is for a sexually transmitted virus, and works best if given to people before they become sexually active. Telling God-fearing Christians that they need to vaccinate their pre-pubescent girls for sexually transmitted diseases was always going to be a tough fight. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago I think this vaccine was especially upsetting for right wing folks, since it is for a sexually transmitted virus, and works best if given to people before they become sexually active. Telling God-fearing Christians that they need to vaccinate their pre-pubescent girls for sexually transmitted diseases was always going to be a tough fight. permalink fedilink source parent