HPV Vaccines and HRCSB

So I decided after a bit of time that I should challenge myself to actually post instead of reading blogs constantly. I have an entire three months left of my summer break, and between taking care of the family doggie business and whatever else I have to do (get my drivers license lol) there is still plenty of time to do something else. So I've decided to push myself to post here and to paint more.

Anyways, onwards to what bugged me today:

You know what, somedays I'm quite happy to be living in this particular province called Ontario. Especially when our own Premier McGuinty chastises the Halton Roman Catholic School Board for reneging on its original allowance of HPV vaccine distribution to grade 8 girls within their schools. Not only that, but the board is moving to promote more abstinence before marriage, although a woman could be a virgin until marriage and still catch HPV from her new husband.

I'm glad that atleast someone within the political sphere is willing to castigate this move and understands that women/girls shouldn't be punished for being involved in any sexual act, or atleast understand the idea of harm reduction (See Greta Christina's good post on harm reduction here). And I say any sexual act because some catholics (I'm formerly catholic myself) have this amazing hate on for any sex act that doesnt result immediatly in a baby and that may offer some sort of pleasant experience for the participants.

Okay maybe I'm being a little harsh, but it still drives me nuts that people would willfully deny a protective measure for their children. Why not still give the girls the vaccine as well as comprehensive sex ed (and whatever useless abstinence only education you wish to tack on to it) and send them on their way? But noooo, in the convuluted and assbackwards mental imaginings of the religious sort, the idea is by removing one of the big scary "BAD THINGS" about sex (Isn't HIV/AIDS and the host of other ailments bad/scary enough?) these young girls will go boinking every lad that comes their way in the false belief that they are safe.

Now someone had posted (but I can't remember right now) that this mentality shows a rather interesting idea: It seems as if all these parents believe that their little daughters are all just sluts waiting to go wild as soon as the apparent dangers of sex are removed. Instead of approaching them as intelligent beings who, with the correct information, could make responsible descisions about their own sexuality and well-being; they approach them with a view very similar to the "pro-life" movement. That is that their age/sex as young women leaves them unable to make proper decisions as to their own bodies and reproductive health. That they do not, and can not understand the risks of sex or abortion, and need to be protected against the wrong desicion by laws and governance, of course based of very flawed and male-serving religious doctrine.

BAH! Thats as much as I can get down straight right now, and I'm sure a few others have more incisive commentary about this issue.

From CP24 story

BTW go check out NOlittlelolita's blog, very good incisive (and Canadian!) commentary about feminism and race and other things.