Last time I looked, most of the "left" agreed that medical decisions should be matters for doctors and their patients.

Now all of a sudden it's a "reasonable idea" to require that every female make a _particular_ medical decision, because the government says so.

Uh ... WTF?

Runner isn't insane... you see... the personal choice he's talking about the choice not to be celibate. Either that or he confused HPV with HIV. Either way... he's a moron.

Following your logic, Thomas, we should never require an AIDS vaccination - if it were to be created, let us pray it so - because it involves a lifestyle choice, as opposed to polio and MMR vaccinations.

It just doesn't make sense. With the rounds and rounds of poking (needle-wise, that is) our children go through in America to prepare themselves for the inherintly disease-ridden world, why not prepare one that can stop - or at least vastly inhibit - the spread of a sexually-transmitted disease that can cause cancer?

Is it because it's linked to sex? In one of the most sexually conservative countries in the modern world (the US), this fight has taken on the mantle of what many of the great fights today are: conservative nutbags who are afraid of penises and vaginas, and moderate and liberal inhabitants who realize that body parts are somewhat natural.

To explain WTF to Thomas, probably few medical decisions you make will affect anyone else. Immunizations are different. One person's refusal to get a vaccination makes it more likely a disease will spread. So while I don't care if you choose to skip exercise, ignore the painful appendix, or even if you smoke where no one else has to breathe it, I do care what diseases you can spread.