Wednesday, September 19, 2007
HPV VACCINE IN ONTARIO
The Halton Catholic school board narrowly defeated a motion Tuesday night that would have made it the first in Ontario to ban public health officials from giving Grade 8 girls the HPV vaccine.
The vaccine protects against infection from four separate strains of human papilloma virus that combined cause 70 per cent of all cases of cervical cancer.
The program is intended for as many as 85,000 girls provincewide this year.
It's estimated that, every year in Ontario, about 500 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and more than 100 die of it.
Although the Halton board approved the vaccination, it still wants parents to sign a waiver before their daughters get the shots.
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Of course it is also true that Catholic morality--abstinence before marriage and monogamy after--will also prevent cervical cancer and a host of other problems as well. But we can't have the kiddies going without their intimacy, can we?
