KELO has a story on Planned Parenthood's offer of free HPV vaccinations.
Their headline, however, is inaccurate and misleading: Cervical Cancer Vaccine Offered." It isn't a vaccine against cervical cancer; it's a vaccine against the Human Papilloma Virus, a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer. Many media outlets around the country have made this "mistake," so KELO isn't alone.
To give credit where it's due, though, they do explain this in the last sentence of the article:
The vaccine is aimed at a virus that comes from sexual activity.
As Pat Powers says at the South Dakota War College today, Planned Parenthood isn't doing any favors to conservatives who support the taxpayer-funded immunizations.
1 comments:
I have 2 comments about this.
First, the state government is providing this vaccine, so we are paying for it through our taxes (not totally free, then, is it?).
Second, did you notice that girls 11-18 must have a parent or guardian with them. So they need parental permission for a "simple" shot, but for an invasive medical procedure -abortion- they do not. This point applies regardless of how you think on the morality of abortion.
Dawn
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