I do not have children and I do not plan to have children, but, I can imagine that a parent's reasoning would be to try to prevent disease. PERIOD. Why else would you get any vaccine? To prevent whatever the vaccine is for! PERIOD. I don't have to make this decision, but, if I were a parent, I would weigh the risks and the benefits before making my decision. Honestly, I don't think that there is a right or a wrong answer to this one. Why is it bad for a parent to want to protect their child? Why would a parent want to risk their child's health (by getting the vaccine and it potentially being dangerous or by not getting the vaccine and leaving their child unprotected)? Good parents ask themselves these kinds of questions everyday. Sending your child to school is a requirement, but sending your child to school is also a risk. They COULD get kidnapped at the bus stop, they COULD die in a schoolbus crash, they WILL be exposed to germs, there COULD be a fire at the school. Good parents try to protect their children by teaching them NOT TO talk to strangers, NOT TO act out on the schoolbus (because it could distract the driver), TO wash their hands often, TO "stop, drop, and roll", etc.I'm not condeming anyone for getting their daughter the vaccine, but I do like to hear their reasoning.
I think the speed at which they put this "on the market" and the shortened study time is a very, very valid issue/concern (FOR ANY MEDICINE or treatment).IMO they put this out way too fast, like HPV was an epidemic when many had never heard of it.
I do not have children and I do not plan to have children, but, I can imagine that a parent's reasoning would be to try to prevent disease. PERIOD. Why else would you get any vaccine? To prevent whatever the vaccine is for! PERIOD.I'm not condeming anyone for getting their daughter the vaccine, but I do like to hear their reasoning.
If I remember right, Gardasil is the vaccine that claims that it will prevent most young women from developing cervical cancer? Well, how do they know that the majority of those girls who get the shot, would have ever gotten the cancer to begin with? It's not necessarily fair to say that you're preventing say 20 girls from getting the cancer,
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