| Senate Panel Rejects Delay In HPV Vaccination Program |
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A Senate committee rejected legislation yesterday to postpone mandatory vaccinations of sixth-grade girls against a virus that can cause cervical cancer.
The Education and Health Committee voted 10 to 5 to kill a bill by Del. Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William) to delay the mandate from this fall until fall 2010. Marshall said the state should wait until more is known about the vaccine's side effects. Opponents of the mandate also have argued that the inoculation could promote promiscuity because the human papillomavirus, or HPV, is spread through sexual contact. Colleen Kraft of the American Academy of Pediatrics said that parents can opt out of the mandate and that girls who have been vaccinated have shown no side effects. -- Associated Press |
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