Do you think girls should be required to have the new cervical cancer vaccine?

I don't know if it should be required, but it certainly should be highly recommended. All it takes is one encounter with someone carrying the HPV virus and bam, you could be infected.

Yos

NO.
it violates personal freedom for choice.

plus i'm the most awful patient when it comes to shots.

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no but they should be encouraged to

NO medical procedure should EVER BE ENFORCED.

yes most definitely

I think it should be a law. Every girl has to have the shot.

i guess.... why not have vaccines for EVERYTHING?

No. There is not enough evidence to support whether or not it actually prevents cancer or not. Give it another few years and see if it gets recalled because of side effects and that should tell you how safe it is.

No. That's a personal health choice.

Definitely.

no, but they should have courge to take it.

I think that they should wait and see if there are going to be any side effects or anything like that before the require girls to get it.

i don't think required, but i think you are pretty silly if you don't: it could save your life and its just a needle.

Yes.

Just because they get the shot, doesnt mean they are forced out there to have sex. it's just a precautionary thing.

HELL NO! im not gettin no shot.

Not required......just suggested......it should be their choice.

I don't think any vaccines should be required. Save the mandatory medicine for facist countries.

EDIT: I'm thinking about my son who, in order to attend public school, is required to have certain vaccines which contain Thimerisol; a preservative that has a questionable link to the Autism spectrum disorders, which we are already afraid he might have.
Granted, thimerisol might not be in the vaccine that is used to prevent cervical cancer, and it may not cause autism, but if the vaccine is mandatory and when the question comes up 5 or 10 years from now "is the cervical cancer vaccine causing XXX disorder?," it will still be mandatory, but how comfortable would you feel about taking it? How comfortable would you feel about letting your daughter take it?

not required, but I got it and I think that most females should.

No, freedom of choice, but I would highly reccommend they get it because it could save their life and thousands of dollars for operations and chemo.

Here in Australia, every school-aged girl was given the vaccine for free should she choose to have it (which almost everyone did).

They shouldn't be required but I got the vaccine. I'd recommend it- one of my friends got cervical cancer at 20 and theres a history of cancer in my family.

No, but I do think that anyone who chose not to have it would be insane. My phobia is hypodermic needles, but I really wish it would be offered to me under the NHS. I'm too old though.

No, I think it should be a choice. The government is deciding too much about what is good for us and what isn't. What happened to the freedom of choice that we are given when we are born in this country. That is what this country is all about.

No! Absolutely not. This is supposed to be a country of freedom!! Women should have the right to choose to have the vaccine but should never be forced to!

i think it should be personal choice but...
I've had it and very glad that i got it.

heck no!

Unfortunately, as much as I hate to admit that cervical cancer is becoming a serious problem, Yes it should be required. Though, I don't know much about the shot and how many times you have to go to get a check up and stuff for it... it's better to be safe then sorry and the number of people who are getting cervical cancer are definitely increasing so that kind of worries me.

Yes of course I wish they had it when I was younger. It's only sensible to get vacinated against as many things as possible.

And OMG I HATE HATE HATE people who say they are afraid of needles, it's only a stupid pinprick and it could save your life one day. Grow up and get over it you need to have injections sometimes and it's not a big deal. Get over it. No patience for such stupid whinging.

No, it should be up to the parents unless they're incapable of doing what's best for they're daughter. Plus when I got it I almost passed out lol.