Quote:"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.
This stuff makes me sick.
Abstinence is one way to prevent HPV. Even if it is taken as a valid goal, however, it's been shown over and over that abstinence-only sex education
plain doesn't work. If it's "try abstinence, but if that doesn't work out, here's what you need to know," fine. If it's "abstinence is the only way, period" it's stupidity bordering on criminality, especially in this sort of situation. If it's preventable with a safe vaccine... <shaking head>
