Ontario School Board Flip Flops on HPV Vaccine Decision
November 21, 2008
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board (H-SCDSB), which last year rejected administering a vaccine for the sexually transmitted disease HPV on school property, has now voted in favor of dispensing the drug to Grade 7 and 8 girls in H-SCDSB schools.
School board trustees voted 5-4 on Oct. 17, 2007, to reject a motion that would allow the provincial government to give out the controversial vaccine at its schools.
At that time Trustee Grace Tridico suggested the board send a letter to the Ministry asking it to “respect our Catholic values and (state) that we don’t want to administer a vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease.”
“The HPV vaccine is not an educational issue, it’s a health issue, it does not belong in our schools. I am adamantly opposed to administering any vaccines within our schools, on school grounds. This should of course be between a parent and a medical professional,” she said.
The trustees who voted against the vaccine last year said that schools must affirm the Catholic moral teaching that sex is reserved for marriage and that sexually transmitted diseases are best prevented by abstinence, and should not send a confusing and hypocritical mixed message to students.
Trustees were also concerned about the health risk of the vaccine, known as Gardasil, which, according to Judicial Watch, a non-profit interest group which has monitored the vaccine’s progress, has been linked to 21 deaths of young women, hundreds of hospitalizations and thousands of adverse reactions reports, including 78 outbreaks of genital warts and 10 miscarriages, since the vaccine was made available. (See http://www.judicialwatch.org/search/node/Gardasil)
Yesterday the board voted 5-4 to reverse the previous decision after trustee Laurie Aceti, who last year voted against the vaccine, moved to hold another vote on the issue, based on a survey which purported to show that a majority of parents wanted their daughters inoculated with the vaccine in school.
“After seeing the information come forward from the poll of the parents, it brought everything back to mind,” said Aceti in a Sault Star report.
“I have prayed a great deal over this and in my heart I believe it was the right decision to reconsider it, take a look at it again, and give the parents the choice of deciding what they want to do.”
The vaccine has been available to students outside of schools from the Ontario Ministry of Health through its public health offices.
Trustee Kathleen Rosilius, who has resolutely opposed the vaccine, said she was disappointed in the vote, but had expected the reversal of last year’s decision.
Rosilius told the Sault Star that she opposes the vaccine on moral grounds, questions the vaccine’s safety, and believes too much money – $300 million from the federal government and $117 million from the province – is being spent on the inoculation program.
“When you think one in five kids is going to bed hungry in this country, you think gee (to spend so much money) for behaviour that can be changed,” said Rosilius.
Rosilius introduced a motion at yesterday’s meeting that a brochure published by the pro-life group Alliance for Life be sent to parents along with the vaccine consent form, in order to give a balance to the information provided by the vaccine’s manufacturer.
“Everything that we’ve had previously was based on pro-vaccine and this is something that just cautions you,” said Rosilius.
The motion will be voted on at the board’s next meeting, December 10, 2008.
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The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada: The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted viral infection.
Key words; “sexually transmitted” & “Cost benefit analysis”.
Their guidelines include the cost-benefit analysis of HPV vaccinations and the therapeutic and prophylactic administration of the one vaccine that is currently available.
The financial benefit of “the one” HPV vaccination available may very well be one of the most important issues for many people, concerned with this campaign of mass vaccination?
Vaccination should not be construed or spun into the concept of immunization, or the development of ones immune system.
Pregnancy can also be “sexually transmitted” and, the more important issues and focus should be on education, but surely not the type of sex education as we have it today. Rather, the education should be geared toward promoting sexual abstinence, instead on providing alternatives to being more promiscuous (Gardasil) and therefore more acceptable to ones peers, perhaps. This may be stemming from a lack of self worth, pride in ones image, and more importantly, ones future?
It’s a pity that none of these so-called professionals; swearing by Apollo, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and working on the myriad of vaccines they market as such, panaceas; only to be later questioned regarding their effectiveness and safety…can’t they come up with one (vaccine) for moral values…if such a thing is in tact anymore.
Are our girls guinea pigs? – Fiji Times Limited – Saturday, October 11, 2008
http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=103122
BARELY three months ago, buried in a government press release of Cabinet decisions, was an approval of Gardasil as a vaccination to be administered to our young girls because it would, apparently, prevent cervical cancer. Our children are guinea pigs for a money-making, I mean, drug-making, machine.
The U.S. market for prescription drugs – the largest in the world – is predicted to grow an anemic one to two per cent to between US$287 billion and $297 billion in 2008, according to research firm IMS Health’s annual forecast.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS – 29/10/2008
OTTAWA – Rookie MP Leona Aglukkaq’s dramatic leap from a rocky stint in Nunavut politics to federal health minister raised eyebrows and a few alarms Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS – 30/10/2008
Corrupt to the Core – “Shiv Chopra is a Canadian hero” – “Do you think our governmental institutions keep our health and best interests as their uppermost priorities? Read this eye opening book for a shocking answer.”
David Suzuki – Canadian environmentalist and geneticist.
A Nobel laureate whose discovery led to HPV vaccine is dismayed by opposition to it? Dr. Harald zur Hausen, co-winner of this year’s Nobel prize for medicine, admitted in an interview Monday that the negative reaction of some parents in North America and Europe to the vaccines perturbs him.
The German scientist said that while no vaccine is risk-free, he is persuaded the HPV vaccines are as safe as the standard immunizations given to most children. THE CANADIAN PRESS – 20/10/2008
Judicialwatch:
Controversial HPV Vaccine Causing One Death per Month: FDA Report.
140 “serious” adverse reactions, including 27 “life threatening” cases, 10 spontaneous abortions, and 6 cases of the debilitating Guillain-Barre Syndrome reported since January 2008. Washington, D.C., June 30, 2008 – One death per month is the average loss of life associated with the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil according to an FDA report obtained by a government watchdog agency.
Merck, the makers of Gardasil, are poised to make profits in the billions from the vaccine, which protects against some cancer-causing forms of the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), but the pharmaceutical giant has come under heavy criticism for fast-tracking the drug onto the market without adequate testing in order to beat out its rivals. http://www.judicialwatch.org.
HPV vaccines’ suspected side effects cause concern; CDC says drug is safe. Katherine Kimzey started suffering debilitating headaches, fainting spells and arthritis-like stiffness last November. Six weeks later, the 14-year-old Dallas resident became so dizzy she could barely walk. She was hospitalized and missed three weeks of school. Then, she had a seizure. For weeks, she bounced back and forth between specialists and was eventually diagnosed with epilepsy. Katherine’s mother, Michelle Kimzey, now believes her daughter’s symptoms were caused by a new vaccine that was supposed to protect her against cervical cancer.
The Dallas Morning News – June 6, 2008
HPV vaccine shows higher rate of anaphylaxis: study.
The human papilomavirus (HPV) vaccine is up to 20 times more likely than other school-based vaccines to cause anaphylaxis, according to a study released Monday. Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction. Symptoms include difficulty breathing, nausea and rashes, but can be treated easily if identified early. CTV.ca News Staff – 01/09/2008
Study Finds Teens Who Watch Sex-Laden TV More Likely to Become Pregnant or Cause Pregnancy.
Washington, November 3, 2008 – A new study confirmed that teenagers who watch sexually charged television shows have a far greater chance of getting pregnant or getting someone else pregnant, reports the Washington Post.
I have no doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end, and that it is little short of taking beef. Mohandas Gandhi – 1869-1948
I wish these so-called Catholic School Boards et al, would make up their minds…get off the fence and quit being indecisive.