Monday - February 05, 2007
The Governor of Texas Just Called My Daughter a Slut
I'm not sure what HPV is, but I'm being told
4,000 people die each year of cervical cancer that someone theorizes might be
caused by it. I'm not going to question that claim, it's beyond my expertise.
Let's assume it to be true.
The issue
is what to do about it. A drug manufacturer is about to make a lot of money
from coerced vaccinations using their medicine, enabled by the singular act of
the governor of Texas. It hardly seems an emergency that requires legislating
from the executive branch of government. It would have been nice had there been
public debate about this, a vote by our representatives would be appropriate for
something as controversial as this.
I'm not saying that it's bad to vaccinate my
daughter, it's probably a good idea. The risk/benefit analysis might be pretty
one-sided, but I don't know because there's been no debate or
discussion.
But it's not the governor's
job, nor even the legislature's to make the decision or even to perform the
analysis, although I welcome assistance from the government in understanding the
issue. When weighing the risk to my daughter for this disease, or any other
danger, there are only two people that have any business deciding what is best
for my daughter, and those are me and my
wife.
So, we're in the situation where
the governor has decided that all children will have sex with people that will
give them this disease. I would like to think that the governor does not know
my daughter and can't make that decision intelligently, even if he had the
right. Maybe my daughter will be the slut he expects her to be, maybe she
won't be. But it's not his job to say so.
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