The Viral State ; Forced Vaccination of Girls Would Set Bad Precedent

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It's one thing for public schools to require that students be vaccinated against communicable diseases that are involuntarily spread, such as measles, mumps or rubella. It's another for the state to demand that teen girls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease that can only be spread voluntarily.

"Girls ages 11 and 12 would have to show schools proof they'd been vaccinated against a virus that can lead to genital warts and cervical cancer, unless their parents opt out, under a bill approved Wednesday by a Senate panel," The Gazette reported Thursday. "Senate Bill 80, sponsored by Sen. Suzanne Williams, D-Aurora, and House Minority Leader Mike May, R-Parker, would bar females from attending public schools after the age of 12 unless they are vaccinated against HPV" -- which is short for human papilloma virus.

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The Viral State ; Forced Vaccination of Girls Would Set Bad Precedent

Bill backers seem to think they aren't being coercive because they give parents a chance to opt out. But one shouldn't have to opt out of a policy that shouldn't exist. The trouble, costs and potential embarrassment this imposes on ...

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