{"id":1206,"date":"2006-05-09T19:48:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T19:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2006-05-09T19:48:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T19:48:55","slug":"no_good_deed_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>I encountered this story a while ago and it pissed me off then.&nbsp; It still pisses me off.&nbsp; The FDA is close to approving a <A href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wpvi\/story?section=healthcheck&#038;id=4146922\">vaccine for the human papillova virus<\/A>, which causes cervical cancer in women.&nbsp; The vaccine will likely save thousands of lives.&nbsp; Most people would struggle to see the controversy in such a thing.&nbsp; But leave it to the paranoid, sex-obsessed religious right to crank up the histrionics and proclaim this medical advance a threat to public morality.&nbsp; The vaccine is most effective when administered to girls between ten and twelve years old.&nbsp; Social conservatives make an argument so absurd and ignorant that it&#8217;s completely horrifying: administering this vaccine to girls will instantly transform them into wanton hedonists.&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>Religious conservatives love to depict themselves as defenders of family values, but I often wonder to what degree their worldview is influenced by a deep-seated, almost pathological fear and mistrust of female sexuality.&nbsp; <\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>Thanks to <A href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2006_05_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114717556279008962\">Digby<\/A> for reminding me how much this story annoyed me.&nbsp; <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I encountered this story a while ago and it pissed me off then.&nbsp; It still pisses me off.&nbsp; The FDA is close to approving a vaccine for the human papillova virus, which causes cervical cancer in women.&nbsp; The vaccine will likely save thousands of lives.&nbsp; Most people would struggle to see the controversy in such <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1206' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-js","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}