CBS News posted a column today entitled, "The unlikely antivaccine alliance," detailing the strange bedfellows in the fight against mandating the HPV vaccine: vaccine opponents, social conservatives, anti-corporate groups, anti-big government groups, and most surprisingly, women's groups....
Finally, the backdrop to all these conversations is one unfurled by women's health advocates, who insist that we set the current action in a historical context. Walking around with the DES-Thalidomide-Dalkon Shield pharmaceutical disasters in the back of their minds, some worry that Merck's profit-driven rush to mandate this drug may prove problematic. "There's merit to questioning industry's motives in this case," says Heather Boonstra, public policy analyst at the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on sexual health research and analysis. "Because Merck itself has pushed so hard to make the vaccine mandatory, there's a bit of skepticism about industry's motives."
Guttmacher is the research arm of Planned Parenthood.
The CBS piece also quoted me. To read that, go to www.jillstanek.com.
Now all the people who were all over us about "not caring about women getting cancer" are either going to have to concede that the AGI doesn't care if women get cancer, or they'll have to admit that there are motives other than meanness for not wanting to pump pre-teen girls full of pharmaceutical supplies.