Conservative Christian Doctors Suppress VD Cure
 

The relates to HPV, which is what causes those disgusting warts y'all love to see posted so much on guys' schmeckies. It also causes cervical cancer in women. Bottomline: It would be good to rid ourselves of this shitty little virus. Merck has come up with a 100% effective and safe preventative. But check this shit out:

" This is a disease that's sexually transmitted," said Linda Klepacki, spokeswoman for Focus on the Family. "Because of that, this is a very personal subject and we feel parents should make that decision for their children... more

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God help us :thumbsup

"these folks are prepared to risk having untold numbers of young women become infected by HPV and have god knows how many develop cervical cancer, et. al., as a result, because the virii in question are "sexually transmitted" and this makes them somehow exempt from the normal logic applied to preventative medicine."

While the attempt to suppress a cure for a virus that causes so much suffering to so many people is firesquad-worthy, what really concerns me about this is the "edge of the wedge" that would begin to treat sexually transmitted diseases differently from the "others". This is a difference that could play out in terms of future research funding AND the way society looks upon the disease and people afflicted with it.

We have already seen this kind of monster rear it's head in the case of AIDS. The appearance of HIV, and its preponderance within the gay community eroded a deeper fissure between one part of our community and the rest. Although the PC thing is to pretend we have overcome this bigotry 20 years hence, ask anyone infected for a different truth. Imagine the damage, on so many levels, if the WAY you got a disease was allowed to determine how you were treated.

We are all fighting the notion that sex is bad. I just wanted to point out a related threat... that would CERTAINLY align itself with OUR enemies on that may-it-never-come day.

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The FDA approved the innoculation today. It is 70% effective in tests.

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