The Nation has a great article about how preventing cervical cancer with the new HPV vaccine, which requires administration during a girl’s teenage days, is just another example of conservatives grandstanding. The article has a very good thesis, how virginity linked to death is reasonable, as long as no vaccine is given that would somehow “promote” or “legitimise” premarital sex. From the article:

What is it with these right-wing Christians? Faced with a choice between sex and death, they choose death every time. No sex ed or contraception for teens, no sex for the unwed, no condoms for gays, no abortion for anyone–even for that poor 13-year-old pregnant girl in a group home in Florida. …

As they flex their political muscle, right-wing Christians increasingly reveal their condescending view of women as moral children who need to be kept in line sexually by fear. That’s why antichoicers will never answer the call of prochoicers to join them in reducing abortions by making birth control more widely available: They want it to be less available. Their real interest goes way beyond protecting fetuses–it’s in keeping sex tied to reproduction to keep women in their place.

Thanks be to Fark.com for the link.

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