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Staring down the edict of a Calgary bishop who says the HPV vaccine contributes to promiscuity, a newly formed advocacy group is pushing Roman Catholic schools to allow students to be immunized against the sexually transmitted virus.
Calgary is the only major city in Canada with a publicly funded school board that withholds the vaccine on religious grounds, the group says. This puts the thousands of girls in the city and southern Alberta at risk of cervical cancer.
The activists, who include ethicists and doctors, have formed HPV Calgary in an attempt to strong-arm the Calgary Catholic School District into allowing vaccinations in Grades 5 and 9 with other routine shots.
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“They have delegated their decision making to a non-elected official without expertise in evidence-based medicine or public health.”
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Vaccination advocates said studies have found no correlation between the HPV vaccine and increased promiscuity.
“What we see anecdotally is that the children don’t jump into bed, they go out for recess. It’s hard to debate this because it’s not grounded in evidence or rationality,” Ms. Guichon said.
Further, it’s possible to contract HPV through sexual assault and abuse, she added.
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/26/187783/
Way to go, Bishop Frederick Henry. Way to go.