HPV Vaccine: Too Soon To Be Mandatory

[Religious conservatives worry that it would make teens likelier to sin (by easing the threat of an STD). Of course, vaccines don't put ants in your pants anymore than safety belts cause road rage, and, besides, nearly everyone gets laid eventually. The purpose of public health is to protect everyone, and the vaccination of young girls is based on solid data showing that 13 percent of girls have already had sex by the time they turn 15. (It's important to vaccinate before sexual debut, because HPV infection risk increases about 15 percent with each new partner.) ]

HPV vaccine fuels debate

Haneisen: What if there was an HIV vaccine?

And now "the Left" is supposed to do, vis a vis Saudi Arabia, what Jims favorite administration has never had the b*lls to do, again, because interests trump morality.

Will you step forward and say that such things are wrong??

Saudi   female repae victim sentenced to 90 lashes for the crime of being alone with a male not of her family.

And, the relish with which the fire federal prosecutors have responded to calls to voluntarily testify to Congress--

I think that some of you can guess as to the moral quality of federal judges, the persons who are the apparent guardians of the constitutional liberties of the people.

"By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex-post-facto laws, and the like. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing."

Federalist #78

Today, a federal judge who wishes to be confirmed must, as much as possible, reject and deny that he will hold certain laws or Presidential actions unconstitutional, and instead state that he will give utmost deference to the Congress.

I prefer the old kind.

"If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them is conclusive upon the other departments, it may be answered, that this cannot be the natural presumption, where it is not to be collected from any particular provisions in the Constitution. It is not otherwise to be supposed, that the Constitution could intend to enable the representatives of the people to substitute their WILL to that of their constituents. It is far more rational to suppose, that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority."

actually, this isn't a legitimate public health issue, in the same sense as vaccinations for smallpox or chickenpox are: hpv is not an airborne virus, it is transmitted almost exclusively by sexual contact. unless the gov. of texas means to suggest that 12 year-old girls are having sex in school, i question the validity of his concern.

You claim to be against war and have noted that you won't fight, yet you have never defined as to if it is only this war, or all wars.

Can you answer that question?

And while you spend hours attacking the US' positions and anything the Bush administration does, I have never seen you condemn the actions of the radical Moslems. Certainly I would think that you could spare a comment or two each week imploring the Moslem world to correct such actions.

et al - You claim to want peace and justice and want to use the UN for this purpose.

Why do I see no demonstrations against "honor killings?"

Why do I see no demonstrations condemning the lack of "women's rights" in the ME?

Why do I see no demonstrations against the killing of Gays and Lesbians??

More than a dozen towns passed measures calling for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, and to care for them when they were back on U.S. soil. Dover also rejected the troop measure.

Allegre's second thoughts

Claude Allegre, one of France's leading socialists and among her most celebrated scientists, was among the first to sound the alarm about the dangers of global warming....

The cause of this climate change is unknown," he states matter of factly. There is no basis for saying, as most do, that the "science is settled."

Dr. Allegre's skepticism is noteworthy in several respects. For one, he is an exalted member of France's political establishment, a friend of former Socialist president Lionel Jospin, and, from 1997 to 2000, his minister of education, research and technology, charged with improving the quality of government research through closer co-operation with France's educational institutions. For another, Dr. Allegre has the highest environmental credentials

The author of early environmental books, he fought successful battles to protect the ozone layer from CFCs and public health from lead pollution. His break with scientific dogma over global warming came at a personal cost: Colleagues in both the governmental and environmental spheres were aghast that he could publicly question the science behind climate change.....

Calling the arguments of those who see catastrophe in climate change "simplistic and obscuring the true dangers," Dr. Allegre especially despairs at "the greenhouse-gas fanatics whose proclamations consist in denouncing man's role on the climate without doing anything about it except organizing conferences and preparing protocols that become dead letters." The world would be better off, Dr. Allegre believes, if these "denouncers" became less political and more practical...

Does any one country or society have any right to premptively invade another country, destroy their society and cause the death of hundreds of thousands of their people, on the basis of their moral judgements?