Tim, seeing as how we all know the religious right would rather see girls get cancer if they have sex (which is what the vaccine is designed to prevent) maybe next time you'll want to post a link that is not to an anti-abortion website. Talk about an agenda!
Here's the HPV vaccine report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention:
http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/STDFact-HPV-vaccine-hcp.htm
The article you posted (yes, I read it.
) said one of the girls died three hours after being administered the vaccine, but doesn't say the vaccine was the cause. Here's an article about a girl who died 12 hours after being administered a tetanus vaccine. The furor almost derailed the district's vaccination program (in India, I believe), and in fact, it turned out her death wasn't due to the vaccine after all. So, the article you posted seems to be massaging the facts, at best. I also liked the way it attempted to make general risks of vaccinations sound specific to the HPV vaccine only. No, wait; I didn't like that. That's lying. Isn't that against one of the Ten Commandments?
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems...Kerala&Topic=0
Meanwhile, 10,000 new cases of cervical cancer are reported each year in the US alone, and 4,000 women die from it. But they deserve it for having sex, seems to be the point of view of the right-wing religious nuts in this country.
And the reason for pushing for the vaccincations to be mandatory? Because if vaccinations are required, they must also be made available for free. The HPV vaccine costs $300 and that puts it out of the price range of most poor families, who, frankly, are the ones who are most in need of it.