See, Jesus Does Hate Women

Wow, that didn't take long! Just yesterday, the results from a study about the 100% effectiveness of a vaccine for cervical cancer came out. I wondered how long it would take James Dobson and his ilk to come out against saving up to 300,000 lives per year.

Ane today, just like clockwork, we have a statement from Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council (founded by James Dobson).

"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 license to engage in premarital sex,"
Maher claims, though it is arguable how many young women have even
heard of the virus.

Well, lets see here..... let's open up our little statistics books and look up just how many people have some form of HPV. And this does not include those that are not infected, but have simply heard tell of it.

About 20 million Americans have some form of HPV.

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Cervical cancer is the second-most common cancer in women and their No. 2 cause of cancer deaths, resulting in about 3,000 deaths in the United States and nearly 300,000 around the world each year. At least half of sexually active men and women become infected with genital HPV at some point.

Surely Jesus doesn't want needless suffering and deaths, does he???

Can you imagine the horrible epidemic of cervical cancer in the evangelical community when all the other little girls get vaccinated but the, ah-hem - good little "abstinent" evangelical girls don't get the vaccine?