Would you let your daughter have the cervical cancer vaccine?

**Polo** · 26-10-2007, 11:09am

I have heard a few bad things about it.

**Damsella** · 26-10-2007, 11:11am

Well of course I will, why wouldn't you want your child to avoid cancer?

**Narcissa Malfoy** · 26-10-2007, 11:12am

I would as long as I have looked into it and made sure I am happy with the implications. I have let them have all the other vaccinations available and would think that this would be no different.

**Strawberry Bivi** · 26-10-2007, 11:13am

Yes I would, certainly, and if I had a son I would want him to have it too (you can do this privately) so he doesn't endanger his partner. What bad things have you heard? It has only been available for a short time. The only bad things I have heard about it are in the sort of paper that thinks death is a satisfactory outcome from sex for women.

**Abbie** · 26-10-2007, 11:13am

Based on the current information about it, of course I would.

If there were some risks or bad effects from it to surface in years to come then I'd possibly re-think but as it stands, absolutely

I have heard a few bad things about it.

What have you heard?

**Jubjub** · 26-10-2007, 11:13am

Yep, I think it's a fantastic thing.

**Islander** · 26-10-2007, 11:13am

Absolutely. As someone who has had a pre-cancerous lesion on my cervix (thankfully caught in time), I'd do anything I could to help my daughters avoid this.

D x

**noo noo** · 26-10-2007, 11:14am

yes

**Twistarella** · 26-10-2007, 11:14am

Yes, why wouldn't I want to protect my daughter from cancer?

**Tekkencat** · 26-10-2007, 11:14am

hell yeah -

**bluekat** · 26-10-2007, 11:15am

Originally Posted by Narcissa Malfoy

I would as long as I have looked into it and made sure I am happy with the implications. I have let them have all the other vaccinations available and would think that this would be no different.

WSS

BKx

**Damsella** · 26-10-2007, 11:17am

OH was involved with a company that makes this vaccine and before they launched it they knew that from Day 1 the Daily Mail would be banging on about "underage sex", "female promiscuity", etc etc

I somehow doubt they'd be banging on so much if there was a vaccine against testicular cancer

**Shaybabe** · 26-10-2007, 11:19am

I don't have a daughter yet, but I absolutely would want any future daughters to have this vaccination.

**Twistarella** · 26-10-2007, 11:19am

Originally Posted by Damsella

OH was involved with a company that makes this vaccine and before they launched it they knew that from Day 1 the Daily Mail would be banging on about "underage sex", "female promiscuity", etc etc

I somehow doubt they'd be banging on so much if there was a vaccine against testicular cancer

I honest to God don't understand the connection between this vaccine and underage sex!

**Strawberry Bivi** · 26-10-2007, 11:20am

Originally Posted by Damsella

I somehow doubt they'd be banging on so much if there was a vaccine against testicular cancer

Precisely. Imagine a world without Anne Atkins, it'd be a veritable moral cesspit

**Abbie** · 26-10-2007, 11:20am

Originally Posted by Twistarella

I honest to God don't understand the connection between this vaccine and underage sex!

Me neither. I doubt there are that many girls out there who take cervical cancer into account before having sex

**bubbasweet** · 26-10-2007, 11:20am

Originally Posted by Damsella

OH was involved with a company that makes this vaccine and they knew that from Day 1 the Daily Mail would be banging on about "underage sex", "promiscuity", etc

I somehow doubt they'd be banging on so much if there was a vaccine against testicular cancer

This sort of thing drives me around the bend. I only see this vaccine as a good thing (a shame I'm too old to have it really!) and I don't think any underage girl ever thought (pre-vaccine) "I'd better not have sex just in case I put myself at risk of cervical cancer." If they're going to have sex underage, they're going to do it.

I would make sure any children I have (boys and girls) were vaccinated.