Sexually Transmitted Disease Bill In California Won’t Require Parental Consent For Vaccines

Claire Shefchik
ThirdAge.com
September 26, 2011

California minors seeking sexually transmitted disease vaccinations may be able to do so without parental consent if Gov. Jerry Brown signs a bill now on his desk.

“I don’t think we should be playing Russian roulette with kids’ lives,” Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, the San Diego Democrat who wrote the bill, told The Associated Press. The Centers for Disease Control “monitors those numbers nationally,” she said. “We have clear evidence of a growing problem with young people under age of 18 — HIV and AIDS in young people as young as 14. That should alarm us.”

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the leading cause of cervical cancer, and the AP reported it caused 400 deaths in California in 2008. The available HPV vaccines, which are Merck’s Gardasil and GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix, are most effective if given before someone becomes sexually active. If the bill becomes law, minors could also receive vaccines that help prevent HIV soon after the patient is exposed.

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2 Responses to “Sexually Transmitted Disease Bill In California Won’t Require Parental Consent For Vaccines”

  1. Wake up and realize that you must act if your way of life is to be preserved. Everyone knows that actions speak louder than words. It is now time for action! Unlike talking, more action is needed! If you are willing to take action read on?

    The modern-day equivalent of adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution is a political movement that will make government, local, state and national, more transparent, less corrupt, more accountable, less wasteful, more fair and equitable. That political movement is “The People’s Branch” at ThePeoplesBranch(dot)org. The People’s Branch is a realistic, reasonable and non-violent, way for the people to regain control of government.

    There are those that are still asleep and convinced in their beliefs that modern times don’t require a more reasonable and fitting form of control over government. They believe that what may have worked for government over a hundred years ago can’t be improved upon. They are wrong!

    The People’s Branch is working to give the constituents of each elected official the power to participate directly in the governing process alongside that elected official. This will grant all voting constituents of an elected officials to become part of that elected official’s ultimate check and balance. The technology now exists that can implement this. Literally The People’s Branch.

    Implementing a “People’s Branch” at each level of government, local, state and national, will guarantee a government that is more transparent, less corrupt, more accountable, less wasteful, more fair and equitable. Yet, why is it that even though everyone is for better government a political movement that would ultimately improve government at all levels by neutralizing special interest’s control is yet to be implemented?

    There has never been a greater need for the political solution(s) provided by The People’s Branch. But no one is saying it is going to be easy. Yet, neither was the Civil Rights movement or the Women’s Suffrage movement, etc., etc. Politicians fear this political movement because they know that if it succeeds then their power and control will come to an end and the people’s influence upon government will truly begin.

    Talk is always going to be cheap. However, if you want improvement in government then you should be willing to take action and get involved in the only political solution that has a chance to truly reform the evils of government in a sustainable way! This political movement will work everywhere. Start a petition drive. You, your family and future generations will appreciate the positive changes.

  2. This is a parental decision. The state has absolutely NO business making choices for our children. No surprised they think they can overstep their bounds. They’ve had too much “inch” and now they want the “mile” because Americans have been asleep and silent. Time to wake up America and take our country back!! Let’s put these politicians in their place and make them realize they work for US, not each other and the special interests funding them and their corruption.

    This is one place to start, but there’s a lot more that needs to be undone to get our rights and civil liberties reinstated. In the words of one American patriot, Todd Beamer, who died on 9/11/01 helping to defend our great nation against Islamic terrorists, “Let’s Roll.”

    This time around though, it’s against the American terrorists (who are attempting to steal from us our birthright left to us by our founding fathers.

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