This is less about Republicans and Democrats as it is about the R's desire to pander to the conservative religious right base that brought them many votes. This is not about sex it's about cancer. But the arguments about it making sex seem safe (stupid) are at the forefront of the argument. We vaccinate our kids against hep b, which is sexually transmitted; the vaccine had the same FDA approval process first. No objection, no talk of it leading to early engagement in sex, nothing. We vaccinate our kids against tetanus, do they want to to go out afterwards and step on nails? Of course not. If a parent thinks that the risk of their kids engaging in sex is more important than that child developing cancer later in life, this is a sad comment on things. This is the first real progress we have made against cancer, and the discussion is largely about parent's rights and sex everywhere. I have sat across from parents that are arguing for their rights, and they don't even have the real information about the vaccine to draw conclusions from in their mental information packs. That tells me that their right's issue is not the real issue to them. If I were to be against something I woud want to be really well versed on it before I got into a debate. As to Jam's reason number two, the info is out there in telephone book thick reams of studies and more if anyone wants to take the time to understand it. But again they do not. They are against it without full knowledge, and it isn't because the knowledge is missing. That has not been my experience in the debates I have engaged in.

Where would we be if people took this path with the polio vaccine