Cancer Vaccination Opposed on Religious Grounds

This Alternet article is
oddly interesting:

The Food and Drug Administration advisory panel approved a
vaccine for the human papilloma virus (HPV) last week. The vaccine appears
to be 100 percent effective at protecting against the most prevalent viruses
that cause cervical cancer. While public health professionals view the
vaccine as miraculous, many conservative organizations oppose it on the
grounds that it might encourage promiscuity among adolescent girls. Now that
the FDA has approved the vaccine, conservatives are already working
feverishly to limit or
even prevent its use.

That snippet got my hackles up. However, reading on, an interesting
question emerges:

Although children are required to have various vaccinations
before attending public schools, conservatives are against the ACIP
recommending such a practice for the HPV vaccine. The Christian Medical &
Dental Associations is an organization that “exists to glorify God by
advancing Biblical principles in bioethics and health to the Church and
society.” The group’s executive director, Dr. Gene Rudd, has stated, “While
accepting HPV vaccine is morally acceptable, it should not be
mandatory.

The idea of blocking availability — either by withholding FDA acceptance,
or interfering with insurers’ willingness to provide coverage — of a drug
that prevents disease on religious grounds bothers me.

However, on the debate of whether HPV vaccinations should be made mandatory