It’s also been common in antivax circles for decades to eschew neonatal HepB vax on the grounds that it’s “a sexually transmitted disease”. All the shitty studies MAHA dredges up to justify antivax policies dovetail nicely with the Christian Right’s longterm goal of making sex less safe.
You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.
ClutchScience (Jen Phillips)
RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”.
A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24.
Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.
Nathan Goldwag
Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational,
that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical
cancer deaths. This is sh...
