As the only South Dakota blogger out with 5 daughters, I feel I need to weigh in on the whole discussion that's occurring with regards to the HPV vaccine, and Governor Rounds' proposal to make it available. My family (including my three oldest girls) watched my mom, their grandmother, succumb slowly and painfully to cancer which spread throughout her body. If a similar fate from a different type of cancer was preventable through a simple shot, why wouldn't anyone advocate for it? At the age most of my kids are going to be getting it, they're still playing with barbies, and negative influences such as most of the programming on MTV, and other assorted trashy television is verboten in my house. All they're going to know about this vaccination is that it's a shot, just like for teatnus or measles. They'll go "Ow, I don't want a shot," and that will be it. Just another mark on their vaccination record. One check box for DPT, one for HPV, and so on...
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Rest assured, the good in our nation and the world far outmatches the bad.
Less not forgot all the problems across this entire nation with the Foster Care system, Florida comes to mind.
Some heads are going to be on a plate and many questions are going to have to be answered from the bottom to the top!
I can hardly wait until the national media turns its attention to the superficial, hypocritical hyperbolic dangerous political atmosphere here in South Dakota. And all in the name of Jesus! What does it take to be a legislator here? Who elects these people?
I just got really outraged about this thing today...how many other white male rapist legislators can a state have? Although the victims have the right to privacy and confidentiality (something the legislators didn't give a hoot about when crafting the anti-abortion rag this 2007 legislative session with rape and incest "protections" that, luckily, went nowhere) I'd bet dollars to donuts that the victims were Native American girls...as 65% of the children in foster care in this state are Native.