24th May 2006, 8:09 PM
It's been "released" (it was locked up?), the debate is over the law. Some say that while the risk a vaccine poses is minor (there's a risk involved, but it's no biggy, but it is enough that there's a reason they stopped vaccinating for small pox), the risk is still greater than for the person who abstains. True enough (though some don't abstain by choice and some simply aren't interested), but the issue is simply that a large number do NOT and parents often don't know enough about the more outgoing teen's private lives to really know for sure if that's the case. The issue seems to be too many parents are willing to let this be "God's punishment for sinning" rather than give them a vaccine, which is a very unhealthy attitude to take.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)