Dobson sentences Women to Death

Researchers at GlaxoSmithKline have been working on a promising vaccine that could protect women against human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes the majority of cases of cervical cancer. Which is great, because according to New Scientist, deaths from cervical cancer could jump fourfold to a million a year by 2050. Here are some shocking statistics:

HPV is extremely common. Half of all sexually active women between 18 and 22 in the US are infected. Most cases clear up, but sometimes infection persists and can cause cancer decades later.

Deaths in the west have plummeted thanks to widespread screening to detect cancers early. But such screening is not widely available in developing countries. In many, populations are ageing: in India the number of women over 60 is projected to rise from 40 million now to 168 million in 2050. The International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, calculates that by then deaths from cervical cancer will reach a million a year in poor countries if rates of infection, and of cancer detection and treatment, do not improve.

So you would think that this vaccine has near-universal support. Well, you would be wrong. Grand Ayaltolla James Dobson's outfit Family Research Council, is against the vaccine, which could save literally millions of women a year, because:

[R]eligious 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.

That's right: millions of women dead, instead of some teens who may, may engage in premarital sex. Talk about moral equivalence and Moral Relativism. Never mind that a growing number of teens are engaging in oral and anal sex, because the abstinence squad has rot their brains into thinking that isn't sex. Are these people for real? These are not Christians. People with Christ in their heart would not deny lifesaving medicine. Say hello to our modern-day Pharisees.

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