Promiscuity Pays: Canada Pimps Its Girls to Big Pharma

Recently, Vote Life, Canada! went on a fact finding mission related to the proposed use of the Gardasil vaccine. The result of that study was a report entitled Gardasil Vaccine Not the Only Option for Preventing Cervical Cancer. The report can also be found here.

Today, Henry Makow weighs in on the vaccine, with his usual keen insight, perhaps largely as a result of CBC’s recent shocking coverage. Much of the ground he covers is similar to Vote Life, Canada’s coverage. Here’s what he had to say.

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Promiscuity Pays: Canada Pimps Its Girls to Big Pharma

By: Henry Makow

The Harper government has allocated $300 million to vaccinate thousands of girls as young as age nine against a sexually transmitted disease, human papillomavirus (HPV), which occasionally causes cervical cancer.

The vaccine (Gardasil) only works on girls with no sexual experience. So instead of teaching these children that it is self-destructive and degrading to be promiscuous, the government is inoculating them as if they were going to become prostitutes.

Instead of selling these girls, the politicians are taking their cut up front, from big pharma, all in the name of protecting "public health."

This is the shape of socialism in the New World Order: enriching corporations by drugging the population.

In an interview with CBC-TV, a representative of Merck-Frosst, the maker of the vaccine, admitted that lobbying is how pharma business is done in Canada.

The 15 minute TV-Report, which can be viewed here, says this is the only case of government-mandated mass vaccination in the world. The last time the Canadian government took such drastic action was during a polio outbreak in the 1950's.

But there is no epidemic of cervical cancer now. In fact, it doesn’t even rank in the top 10 cancers affecting Canadian women. Whereas 400 women die of cervical cancer each year, over 5000 die of breast cancer.

At the same time, society is giving children the message that being "sexually active" is part of "becoming a woman." In fact, girls become women by preparing to become wives and mothers. Promiscuity just makes them feel worthless and unwanted.

In the TV report, a mother just laughs when her 13-year-old daughter announces her intention to become "sexually active" at age 16. A father thinks the new vaccine is really cool while his daughter sits beside him in stunned silence.

BOONDOGGLE WITH CONSEQUENCES

At best, this vaccination campaign is a boondoggle for Merck. At worst it could have many negative results. A reader from Argentina wrote that last Oct. the government tried to vaccinate girls for Rubeola but was stopped when some doctors revealed the vaccine contained a sterilization agent called prostaglandin.

A report for the Women's Health Network by a McGill University epidemiologist calls the Canadian program "premature and could possibly have unintended negative consequences for individuals and for society as a whole."

While as many as 50% of women get some form of HPV over their lifetime, the report says most of these do not result in cervical cancer and can be cured.

"Most HPV infections are cleared spontaneously. Recent research using available molecular detection technologies suggests that clearance occurs within one year for about 70 per cent of those infected, and within two years for 90 per cent. Thus, HPV infection and cervical cancer must not be conflated: most women who are infected with even a 'high-risk' strain of HPV will not develop cervical cancer."

The report also states that clinical trials were insufficient to test the efficacy of the vaccine since the subjects were too young to be exposed to HPV.

During the last six months of 2006, the (US) National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) got 385 reports of adverse reactions to Gardasil.

"There are twice as many children collapsing and four times as many children experiencing tingling, numbness and loss of sensation after getting Gardasil vaccination compared to those getting a Tdap (tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis) vaccination."

"There have been reports of facial paralysis and Guillain-Barre Syndrome. And doctors who give Gardasil in combination with other vaccines are basically conducting an experiment on their young patients because Merck has not published any safety data for simultaneous vaccination with any vaccine except hepatitis B vaccine."

In May 2007, Judicial Watch reported 1600 adverse reactions to Gardasil including two deaths.

INSANITY

Next week in Toronto alone, 40,000 young girls and their parents will be pressured to allow an inoculation for a sexually transmitted disease. The reason for the pressure is that three injections are required over a six-months period i.e. the school year.

"My 12 year old daughter is facing this decision -- her MD. has suggested we vaccinate her right away," a mother posted on the CBC-TV web site. "I am NOT a sceptical person by any means but something about this whole campaign makes me very nervous. "

The unstated, and outrageous assumption behind this vaccination campaign is that promiscuity is the norm. Human papilloma virus will not be transferred if people are selective and monogamous (and use condoms.) These girls have never had sex. Most will not have sex for years. Many will not be promiscuous and will not need this vaccine.

The other assumption is that sex is a necessary social experience that is divorced from courtship, love, marriage and procreation. On the contrary, a girl's healthy psychological development is based on her participation in the natural life cycle by becoming a wife and mother. Thus she must consecrate herself sexually for future or potential husband.

Contrary to feminist ideology, women are fulfilled in this way, not by becoming dentists or mechanics. Many feminist organizations are in favor of Gardasil. This is consistent with my view that the hidden agenda of feminism is to undermine marriage and family. Far from fighting the "patriarchy," feminism shills for the establishment.

The current Canadian government pretends to be socially conservative and espouse "family values."

Surely it would be less hypocritical (and cheaper) to teach these girls that promiscuity doesn’t make them a woman. On the contrary, it ruins their chances for fulfillment by undermining their ability to bond permanently with their husband.

A young woman shouldn’t need more than a couple of long term relationships before she finds the right one. She doesn’t need to protect herself like a prostitute would. On the other hand, many politicians and doctors could use some Gardasil.

This gratuitous mass innoculation sets a bad precedent. I don't want to speculate what excuse they will find for the next one.

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Note #1: A report broadcast on NBC-News Saturday showed that Gardasil is being marketed in the US as a vaccine against HPV. One MD in Vermont has a waiting list of 288 girls. In fact, Gardasil prevents only four of about 30 strains of HPV, which represent only 70% of cancer causing HPV's. At $360 for the three doses, plus doctor's fees, there is alot of money at stake in this ruse. This is especially true since some doctors think cervical cancer is caused by feminine products and not HPV.

Note #2: According to Dr. Judith Reisman, more than 80% of newborn American children are being inoculated with a vaccine for Hepatitus B, which is a venereal disease. This is not a threat to children but it is a threat to pedophiles because it identifies children who have been sexually abused by them.

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Published originally at EtherZone.com

Gardasil Vaccine Not The Only Option For Preventing Cervical Cancer

Vote Life, Canada! prepared an analysis of the proposed use of the Gardasil vaccine, in response to a growing series of announcements (and attendant controversy) about its use in Canadian provinces. This article was directed at publication in Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest daily newspaper but at this point no final word has been received as to whether it will see publication there.

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Gardasil Vaccine Not the Only Option for Preventing Cervical Cancer

Last week the Right to Life Association issued a press release outlining its concerns regarding the provincial government’s newly announced HPV Vaccination Program. A small controversy erupted, with many Newfoundlanders quickly adding their viewpoints.

However, in the interests of informed consent for all Newfoundlanders, much more needs to be said about this vaccination proposal which will see 2,800 grade six girls throughout the province immunized from the human papilloma virus (HPV), a virus known to cause many types of cervical cancer. The province will fund the three year program with its allotment of $4.6 million from a $300 million federal total.

At first glance this appears to be quite a beneficial—even marvellous—project. Why not take steps to protect women from a dreaded disease and why not use one more vaccine, among many, in grade school in order to do so? But are there reasons to be skeptical of such a plan? If so, one ought to start first with the most serious concerns, those relating to the health and safety of those women who receive the Gardasil vaccine produced by drug giant Merck Frosst.

According to the U.S. based National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), among the symptoms and illnesses (2200 reported) of greatest concern associated with Gardasil and reported to FDA’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) are death (seven deaths have been filed) and Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS).

In describing GBS, NVIC quotes the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke: “GBS is a serious disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system. The first symptoms of this disorder include varying degrees of weakness or tingling sensations in the legs. In many instances, the weakness and abnormal sensations spread to the arms and upper body. These symptoms can increase in intensity until certain muscles cannot be used at all and, when severe, the patient is almost totally paralyzed. … Vaccinations can trigger onset of GBS.”

NVIC insists that the U.S. Center for Disease Control “should immediately issue a public advisory to doctors, parents, and vaccine recipients that Gardasil is associated with 15 reports of GBS in VAERS.” Yet Merck, as well as Canadian federal and provincial officials, have told us nothing about this.

Gardasil has undergone less than four years of testing and relatively few girls (1200) between the ages of 9 – 15 years were involved in the testing. More surprisingly, out of that total, a miniscule number (100) were nine years old. This does not generate a high level of confidence in the short term, or even the immediate, safety of the vaccine. We certainly have no answers about the vaccine’s long term safety, yet Merck (and our provincial government) proposes to make this age group the target population for mass vaccination. It is not surprising then that some have characterized the vaccination program as a huge Canadian experiment with young school girls as the guinea pigs. For example, might one of the side-effects of this vaccine be to render girls sterile at some point in the future?

Regarding the efficacy and costs of Gardasil, some significant difficulties are also posed. Very importantly, it must first be noted that HPV infection does not equate to contracting cervical cancer. The majority of women infected with HPV—even the high-risk variety—will not develop cervical cancer. In no sense does Canada have a cervical cancer “crisis,” and in no sense will Gardasil “eradicate” Canada’s cervical cancers.

A group of McGill medical specialists headed up by epidemiologist Abby Lippman will be publishing a summary of their numerous concerns about the Gardasil vaccine later this month in the August edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Lippman states emphatically that there is no such crisis of cervical cancer in Canada but that the flurry of recent announcements by politicians and the aggressive marketing techniques of Merck have manufactured an “epidemic of fear” in Canada.

Gardasil shows POTENTIAL to prevent SOME cervical cancer. There are more than 30 types of HPV which can cause cancer and for those women—firstly, who receive Gardasil; secondly, who receive Gardasil before being infected; and thirdly, whose protection by Gardasil is still active and effective [uncertainty prevails on this point]—there is protection against 4 of the most common types which together cause about 70 per cent of cervical cancers. When all is factored in, some believe the vaccine MAY help to prevent less than 17% of cervical cancers. Cancer experts predict that cervical cancer will take the lives of about 390 women this year in Canada.

The vaccine is given by means of three injections over a six-month period of time, and is very expensive, costing about $400 per person. The Canadian Women’s Health Network expresses doubt that the benefits of the vaccine justify such a high price tag and suggests that the money be used instead to improve the Pap smear process. Research has strongly and consistently indicated that if every woman were to receive regular Pap smears, cervical cancer in Canada could be virtually eliminated. Oddly enough, the Gardasil vaccine raises the specter that women might be lulled into a false sense of security, and overlook the acute need for Pap smears and routine exams by their physicians. If such proved to be the case Canada could conceivably see an increase in the rate of cervical cancer.

Further number-crunching raises more doubts—even a startling picture. Reliable indications are that Gardasil’s potency declines significantly after about four years yet cancer data show that the average cervical cancer patient is 47 years of age. If young school children are vaccinated at 9-13 years of age, how many injections or boosters during their lifetime might they need in order to stay protected? The higher the number the better for Merck’s bank account.

The HPV vaccine "touches on very deep sexual, social, ethical values," says Margaret Somerville, Faculty of Medicine professor at McGill University. A good mix of these is apparent in the hostile reaction to the message that government will take care of the risks of a disease that is spread ONLY by sexual promiscuity. At the root of such a reaction is the simple but profound truth, and moral standard, that a young man and young woman getting married, both having no prior sexual intimacy and contact, and both remaining faithful to each other for life, have ZERO risk of contracting HPV. HPV is spread only through the peculiarity of multiple sex partners. Like HIV, it is for all practical purposes a behavioural disease.

In a society where many outrightly dismiss, are ignorant of, or have abdicated their parental responsibilities for the moral (and sex) education of their children, this standard seems not only utopian but its very suggestion is said to be offensive and intolerable. Nevertheless, the Gardasil message is clear: “Your little girl, as young as nine, will not remain abstinent but will engage in, or is preparing to engage in, sexual activity. She needs to be vaccinated.”

Some have compared the Gardasil campaign to the push to promote condoms, which, in creating a false sense of security about “safe sex,” has resulted in overall increased risk. In the strategy to control the spread of STD’s, condoms have been a failure. “Condoms aren’t enough to do the trick—let’s throw in the Gardasil.”

Furthermore, widespread immunization by government meddles with the right of parents to choose the appropriate time to decide when and how their children will be exposed to the topic of sexuality. Against their better judgment and wishes they are forced to engage in the discussion.

Finally, some misconceptions need correcting.

The federal Health Canada website states: “Anyone who has had sex is at risk for HPV.” This is obviously not true in the case of the young man and woman described above whose lives and marriage are ruled by monogamous standards. Does the Canadian government assume all its citizens deal with multiple sex partners?

HPV is not like polio or some other serious, preventable disease treated with a vaccine. HPV is a disease contracted through vaginal, oral or anal sexual intercourse—and only by those means. Your daughter will not catch HPV by sitting next to someone who has it.

Gardasil offers no protection whatsoever against other serious STDs, such as Chlamydia, herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, HIV, AIDS; nor is it effective against the other more than 26 kinds of HPV.

Provincial Health Minister Ross Wiseman said he believes the vaccination program will do more good than harm. So is he saying that, after spending nearly five million hard earned health dollars to protect women from a cancer causing STD that comes only through multiple partner sex, if 2,800 young girls are vaccinated and some MAY be saved from cervical cancer twenty years or more hence but one or more girls die or are incapacitated after being vaccinated, that the program was a success? Perhaps Merck-Frosst, as well as our politicians, haven’t gone to such depths in their thinking. That possibility is indeed a scary—and dangerous—one.

Promote Abstinence, Not Disease Control: Vaccination Plan Sends Wrong Message To Girls

Yesterday I received email from the Right to Life Association of NL. It was news to me but the email informed me that on Monday of this week the provincial government had issued an announcement that a vaccination program is to begin this school year to protect approximately 2,800 Grade Six females against the human papilloma virus (HPV), which is known to cause many types of cervical cancer. The vaccine to be used is the Gardasil brand.

In response to that announcement, the Right to Life Association issued the following press release:

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Concerns Over Government’s Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination Program

The Right to Life Association applauds the provincial government for showing concern for preteen girls by introducing a plan to vaccinate them against the human papilloma virus (HPV), a STD which could lead to cervical cancer. The Right to Life Association believes that this plan, while it has good intentions, is a cause for great concern because of its imperfections.

If the government was really concerned with the teenage STD infection rates, they would introduce an abstinence education program. The province’s current sex-ed curriculum may contain an abstinence element, but it is given only a fleeting mention, if any. The Right to Life Association has heard many complaints from parents, students, and teachers, that abstinence is not given enough attention in the school system. Many of those involved in the school system have asked for a comprehensive abstinence-ed curriculum.

As it stands now, the sex-ed curriculum may actually contribute to teenage pregnancy and STD infection rates. It could give children an impression that they have a green light to sexual activity. It can give them a false sense of security in their knowledge about the risks of sexual activity, resulting in them being less hesitant to engage in promiscuity. For example, HPV may be so widely spread because teens may not understand the instruction that condoms are not perfect. Clearly, a curriculum focusing on sex rather than abstinence does not work.

The HPV vaccination program may lead to the same result as contraception and sex-ed. If those receiving the vaccination are ill-informed about its limitations, they may embrace promiscuity more willingly. Therefore, the Right to Life Association encourages the government to present a strong message of abstinence along with the vaccination. It is through this message that these preteens can learn of the inherit value of their bodies, the sacred gift of sex, and the risks of promiscuity. Armed with this knowledge, preteens can truly begin to protect themselves from STDs such as HPV.

The news release garnered some good reaction, netting many media interviews for Patrick Hanlon, President of the Association, and securing a good report on the second page of the local newspaper entitled “Promote abstinence, not disease control: Health Association believes vaccination plan will send the wrong message to girls.”

For those unfamiliar with this subject matter, you can refer to a report compiled yesterday evening by LifeSiteNews.com. Apparently Ontario also announced plans to introduce the vaccine.

There have been many alarm bells rung over recent months concerning the Gardasil vaccinations. The story really hit hard after the announcement earlier this year from the Texas governor that mandated every school age girl in Texas as young as eleven receive the Gardasil HPV vaccination shots. The governor however was forced to rescind the order in early May due to public outcry and a vote from state lawmakers.

Aside from the question of mandating such a vaccine—an action not contemplated by the Newfoundland government—many other concerns about the use of the vaccine have come to light. WorldNetDaily has a useful account of the recent questions raised about the Gardasil campaign.

Parents should think very hard about the safety of this vaccine as well as the moral issues surrounding use of the vaccine.