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Health & Fitness > Sexual Health The controversy about the HPV vaccine

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Texas governor Rick Perry recently passed a law making it mandatory for girls to receive the HPV vaccination before entering the sixth grade. Since this law has been passed, there has great controversy surrounding it and the moral issue of giving young girls a vaccine for the cancer-causing virus human papillomavirus. What this vaccine comes down to is health. According to the American Cancer Society, about 10,000 American women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer this year and about one-third of them will die. Worldwide, cervical cancer is the No. 2 cancer in women, causing over 470,00...

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