February 13, 2007

Melissa Busekros Update/Mandatory HPV Vaccine

Vic opened this edition of Crosstalk with news that Melissa Busekros, the home school girl from Germany, (Crosstalk programs from Feb. 9 and Feb 12) has been removed from the psychiatric ward and has been taken to a secret location.

An effort is underway that would require female students in the 6th grade to be inoculated with a vaccine to protect them from a specific sexually transmitted disease. The disease in question, the Human Papilloma Virus, can only be contracted by immoral physical contact. Nonetheless, legislative efforts are being introduced to make the HPV vaccine mandatory for these girls to be enrolled in school.

This effort by authorities sends a message that promiscuity is the norm we have to settle for. What about the possible side effects? How about the amount of income that is set to be made by the pharmaceutical company supplying the vacine?

These and other concerns related to the HPV issue are dealt with by Vic and callers on this edition of Crosstalk.