Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the Senate on April 19, 2007, to require the Department of Education to identify and place on its web site materials that contain information regarding the risks associated with human papillomavirus (HPV), and the availability, effectiveness, and potential risks of HPV vaccines; and encourage public and private schools to provide or make available this information to parents and students

The vote was 37 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 153 at Senate Journal 52)

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This is between a doctor and patient...schools do not need to push this new vaccine to prevent a disease that is only transmitted sexually. Is this bill being pushed by the big pharma?

This legislation is totally unnecessary and can be detrimental to the well-being of our children. Why is this such a high priority with legislators?

This information should be included in normal sex education, along with information about other STDs. Also, HPV is not just transmitted sexually like many other STDs. It can be transmitted just by skin to skin contact. I have a problem with the people who get so afraid that their children are going to go out and participate in certain sexual acts just through learning about HPV and the HPV vaccine. The movies and TV shows they watch and the music they listen to obviously doesn't have much of an effect on their actions or knowledge. Mandating the schools povide this information may be the only way many of these kids are going to learn about very important issues. We should not be afraid to supply our children with information they are going to need. Parents must stop being ignorant to the fact that their children are going to be on their own to make their own decisions someday. Information on all STDs, including HPV and the HPV vaccine, may just save them from otherwise irreversible consequences. Parents should also take advantage of this and inform themselves on HPV and the vaccine.

the only way a child in michigan learns anything is through school? doesn't your kid watch the NEWS? doesn't your kid read the newspaper? from about the fifth grade on, we had to be prepared to discuss the goings on in world based on what we saw, read and heard. it was called CURRENT EVENTS. while i'm sure that the michigan school system has no DIRECT FUNDING for such trivialities, there USED TO BE TEACHERS who insisted that these activities take place daily. even parents, asking their kids 'what do you think about this new vaccine?' is a way to let your kids tell you what they know, and for you to FILL IN THE GAPS in what they don't. you might be surprised just how savvy they are on the subject.

Schools in Michigan can only teach the benchmarks given for each subjects. If teachers do not include current events anynore then it is becaused it is not a benchmark. Sad isn't it!!!

I agree. I'm tired of hearing that availability of this vaccine will promote sexual activity. That silly notion is the main reason why birth control wasn't available for so long. And the result? MANY teen pregnancies. To all parents of teens, it's very likely your kids will have sex before marriage, deal with it. Now, my opinion of the vaccine itself. I'm quite sure that the major reason the state is pushing this vaccine is that the Merck want a guaranteed market for it to recuperate their costs for the development and manufacture of this drug and are lobbying big time for this law. We don't know enough about it to make me comfortable requiring every adolescent girl in the state to have it. It would be nice if for ONCE, congress would not buckle to big business and would do what's best for our daughters.

For me, the problem is not that I am afraid having the schools teaching my children about the vaccine will encourage them to be sexually active. The problem is the government constantly treating us like children that need to be taken care of because they are so much smarter than we are and know what is best for us. I've met some of these people and their children and I certainly don't want them raising mine!

Nice job.