My body MY CHOICE
My body MY CHOICE
There were some concerns about the HPV vaccine in Denmark, so the authorities made a new extensive study. The result: very few side effects and the protection was better than expected. All girls are offered the vaccine and it is being discussed if boys should get it also.
I have three friends >55 who are cervical cancer survivors and would have given anything for that vax to have been available when they were young. My son received Gardasil as a tween. I worry so much for younger generations who will not have this protection from preventable cancer.
We have someone who is not a doctor making the most important medical decisions for our country
As a survivor of HPV-related tongue & throat cancer I can attest to how devastatingly horrible it is. Fvck RFK, Jr.
HPV causes many forms of cancer. Case closed.
HPV vaccines have saved so many people from cancer, but especially women. They hate this vaccine because they view it as a means for women to have independence, not as a miraculous preventative to multiple cancers for both women and men.
How many women died of cervical cancer as Henrietta Lacks did, after being betrayed by their partners and given HPV. This vaccine prevents betrayal from becoming deadly. (For men as well).
Yes, two of my male family members had HPV-related throat cancer. Vaccination against HPV should be a no-brainer.
How many women died of cervical cancer after being betrayed by their partners and given HPV I wonder. This vaccine prevents betrayal from becoming deadly. See Henrietta Lacks, for example.
Only “nasty” women need the HPV vaccine…
There it is, the gross and ignorant misogyny that will cost more women their lives.
RFK jr is a shylock and snake oil salesman
We are being forced to sacrifice our health and safety as well as that of future generations because a heroine-addled, testosterone pellet-addicted, trust fund Bro with no medical education or experience agreed to drop out of the Presidential race
I lost a high school friend at 19 due to cervical cancer and Gardasil would have saved her life
Just a wee bit more science. I know we know this but can be shared maybe. Shared with rfkkk jr www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-...
Science is good! www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/8...
This is the reason I moved up my 9 yo's vaccination. I was taking 0 chances with the vaccine not being available with this a-hole in office.
It’s impossible to say exactly whom in this administration I loathe the most.
For me, after Trump, it’s Lee Zeldan.
Same.
Right?
The puppet masters should also be included in the list. Thiel, Miller, Heritage Foundation, etc.
Isn't "suddenly died" one of those anti-vaxxer quackery things?
Worm brain heroin user dumbass
Kennedy is evil, sick 🐷💩
Many things would have been different without one madman in LA 1968.
Fking lunatic. This vaccine has eliminated HPV related cancers in some places. It's a safe and incredibly effective vax
Very common.
Got that one wrong junior. Maybe you were just strung out on H that day
It’s amazing to me that the entire country is taking medical advice from someone who looks like he died last month. A known heroin addict and tinfoil hat whack job who carves up dead animals for fun and thinks leeches are the cutting edge of medical science.
Literally a vaccine against cancer! As a cervical cancer survivor, I wish it had existed sooner! Sadly, the vaccine was ghettoized along with HPV as being an "STI/women's issue." Only girls vaccinated in many places. 50% is never herd immunity. While HPV cancers in men rise: throat, oral, genital.
Is he forgetting that teens grow into adults?
Man I fucking hate this guy! Just let people protect themselves you jack hole! Gah! You are such a twatwaffle!
This guy is not a doctor, and he reads any anti-vaccine bullshit he can find.
What a complete fucking bell end. He knows nothing about medicine. Has he ever considered that preventative measure means teens don't die in later life of cervical cancer.
"Nobody in their right mind" is the health secretary.
Btw - HPV causes all cervical cancers, most anal cancers, and a subset of vulvar, vaginal, penile and oropharyngeal cancers. And, in recent years cutaneous beta-HPV types have been associated with the pathogenesis of non-melanoma skin cancers.
This illustrates the depth of his ignorance. Just when I think I am immune to being stunned - I read this rot.
Per the Kennedy family, he is a burned-out heron addict!
That man cannot die a vaccine preventable death fast enough.
Thankfully my kid already got it cause it sounds like it might be in peril
RFK Jr is trying to kill off Americans.
Vile liar
RFK, RFK, how many folks did you kill today?
My daughters doctor asked her if she had been vaccinated against HPV.She was one of the first kids vaccinated in our town. The doctor told her she was very lucky and should thank her Mom. RFK will get a lot of people killed. Protect your kids from CANCER later in life, their doctor's will thank you
❤️ love that you also caught that. Yes teens are unlikely to get cervical cancer from HPV. They get it later in life 😬 This admin just lies and obfuscates. They must think ppl are stupid
My daughters are in their 30's now. That is when you see the benefit. I don't understand why all parents don't want to vaccinate their kids against possible cancer.
Because you won’t get cancer if you obey God. Cervical cancer is punishment for those who slept around. Like AIDS was Your reward will be not in this life but in eternal life. So what is a little suffering now?
When it first came out parentsxwere "warned" that it would make their daughters promiscuous. My pediatrician called and asked me to vaccinate the girls. I was happy to do so.
Or your partner is dishonest, which happens a lot
Yes. This was a bit tongue in cheek. Always surprised by women envying the trad wife lifestyle. Great if it works for you but they should talk to women who lived it the first time around. Some of them got stuck in bad relationships while being financially dependent.
My daughter got vaxxed, why wouldn’t I protect her from any possible cancer?!🙄🫶🏽💙
Exactly. Why wouldn’t parents do everything they can to protect their kids from cancer?
He is an unbelievably stupid person. vaccines are made to prevent cancers from developing later. They are ideas PREVENTION, not disease treatment. Gardasil has been a medical miracle. He truly does not understand the most simple medical concepts.
My God he is such a moron
I knew someone very well who got throat cancer due to HPV. It's no joke.
When oral sex is an option to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, the HPV vaccine is life saving for women before they ever have intercourse.
He is the worst tbh. And he should be sued. A class action brought against him.
And said so himself, not in those exact terms
Zero cases of cervical cancer in Scotland because of gardasil. More bullshit from this freak publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/ja... s-detected-in-vaccinated-women-following-hpv-immunisation/
Any ideas how to get rid of him? Maybe in his pocketbook? A documentary on his stupidity?
He is an evil predator...the thing to know is that gardasil has already cut the number of cancer cases, and is on track to save millions of lives. The predator wants to see more Americans, including children, suffer and die. He is a threat to all Americans.
He is a dangerous no-nothing quack.
I also know someone who got throat cancer.
The stupid:"if science is so good why haven't they cured cancer" this is basically a vaccine for cancer. Fuck them
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My apologies. I normally put it in and forgot this time.
And I got my son's shots when he was 12. Not worth waiting.
I just came home to a letter scheduling my son’s second shot. Thank goodness we live in the Netherlands. Yay vaccine against cancer! Yay science.
That's my feeling, cancer! We've been wanting a vaccine against cancer! O felt a little poorly after like people sometimes do for vaccines but mostly he had no side effects.
I just got the first vaccine for shingles and felt really tired a couple of days later but yay! No way do I want that pain.
My first one was like that, it knocked me for a loop. The second one was bad at all and, yes, I don't have to worry about that pain from shingles.
Oh yeah, shingles was hard. But I've also had shingles the disease, and I would rather have a monthly shingles vaccination than have shingles again.
Thank you for thinking about it .
He’s worse than that. He’s actively pushing disinformation
Further evidence that republicans don’t give a 💩 about women or children.
He has zero science training. Liberal arts under grad and a juris doctorate only. NOT a medical doctor or scientist in any way 🙄
#RFKisTryingToKillUs
Me too. Chemo and radiation were not fun!
He’s destroyed any goodwill or any positive thoughts that anyone ever had about somebody with the last name Kennedy. Cheryl Hines can GFY, Chris Pratt, Maria Shriver, Swarzenegger can all GFY!
Tell the families of all the girls who grew up and died of cervical cancer that their loss was an impossibility. Fuck him.
He is the most evil of all the Kennedys.
His immediate family warned that he shouldn’t be appointed, and Trump picked him anyway. Kennedy is a menace to the people of the US. He knows nothing about medical matters, and that’s dangerous.
If HPV wore dad jeans and spoke, it would be RFK.
"The Republican Party fully supports a head of HHS who kills people."
2 amies,mortes du cancer de l'utérus. Cancer foudroyant. Avant que ce vaccin soit disponible...
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He is practicing medicine without a medical education, degree, license or brain!! The dangerous level of incompetence in this old man is a festering pus boil on the ass of our country!
Also the guy who said he would leave vaccines alone. Let’s connect the Heritage foundation/project 2025 roadmap to his logic. They believe the ideal US population sits around 100 million people. 🤯 they think only the strong should survive illness and injury. These lunatics are running our govt.
I have two male friends who also got cancer from HPV.
No one is as dumb as this guy. Is there nobody else in the room with him? No handler? What is his purpose? I understand there is a significant antivax community, and that sucks, and many will die bc of it, but why embrace Every Single Dumb Fucking Thing?
This is sickening
Here's another reason why he's so popular among GOP voters: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Yes he is
So did Michael Douglas I believe (or the smoking) 🚬
I hear that lots of men in their forties or so get it, and they have to learn how to eat and drink when their stuff rots away.
It also prevents HPV-caused rectal cancer so it’s important to vaccinate boys for many reasons
Men can get penile cancer from the hpv virus. May RFK find out the hard way 🤷🏼♀️
He’s a serial cheater so 🤞
I used to say I wouldn’t wish cancer on anyone but by the gods I’m changing my mind on that.
Exactly
Also rectal, squamous cell (tongue, throat)
What the actual fuck? This man is not qualified to comment on anything related to the medical profession. I wish someone would get him out and fast!
He is, that's why he's the worst person to be in charge of anyone's health
This vaccination is the reason why cervical cancer is on the decline in women. www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-...
GYN here. I perform many uncomfortable exams and procedures that could be prevented if everyone was vaccinated against high risk HPV
Both my kids are vaccinated. Some parents I know didn’t vaccinate their boys. Why wouldn’t you want to vaccinate against a form of cancer?
I’m guessing some parents abhor the idea that their kid will have sex. They don’t want to admit to themselves that their kid won’t be a pristine virgin until marriage.
From what I’ve seen it’s mostly daughter that must remain virgins. And prevent pregnancy. And prevent STIs, etc.
You’re probably right. Parents may be strongly religious and preach abstinence, but then wink-wink if their kid is a boy.
It’s sad that it’s still happening today. I know that was how I was raised. Very religious. No boys in your room while my brother the football player stayed out all night My mom would also have been against Gardasil because the risk of cancer was an added incentive for good girls to say no to sex.
Yes, it is sad. Hard to tell how this would have played out in my highly religious family, if HPV had been known in those days. The only boy was younger, and mom died when he was still pretty young so there were other concerns.
Ah so you get it. Sorry about the loss of your mom. I am sad to say I sometimes get the logic of Christian MAGA because of it. But I also walked away as soon as I knew more So many religions pretend to want to protect women but in reality oppress them.
Thank you for your kind words. In my experience of fundamentalist Christianity, it was about control through guilt and fear of punishment. I don’t think I ever felt that it protected women, or portrayed itself as protecting. Just my take.
You’re right that it’s about control. More specifically controlling/protecting women’s “purity”. No purity= no value But then you marry and have to obey the head of household. And you obey because he knows better since you are innocent of the ways of the world. All throughout we have no agency
because some parents don't want to ever think of their precious babies ever having unprotected sex. HPV is the slut disease, didn't you know?
Apparently, according to RFK Jr, because they won't die from it *while teenagers.* Dying at 27 like Jade Goody? I guess that's too old to be interesting to him, so not worth protecting.
I think I’m going to do the opposite of RFK’s advice. It seems safer.
Propaganda. Americans are too lazy to read and social media leans anti-vax, anti-public health, and anti-women. Memes are the majority’s only news and knowledge source.
My kids (b&g) are vaccinated too. Anything else is irresponsible.
I’m sorry for your loss. And I’m sorry that that empty worm-riddled husk of a man has dumped salt in the wound.
He is not a quack, he is a ducks ass, full of shit and spreading it across the land.
Im very sorry about your brother and friend, Daniel!
They are fine, recovered. But they would have preferred not to get it!
I’m so glad they recovered! And yeah, no one wants that! Alex hot the HPV vaccine when they were younger. The 1st dose was painful, but much better that than the alternative.
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More women dying from vaginal cancer and a lot more throat cancer without this vaccine. Who, in their right mind would want their daughters to aquire a preventable cancer?
I’m so sorry. Having worked for head and neck surgeons, I can also say categorically that you would not wish throat cancer on anyone, but apparently rfk lite has no problem with causing severe illness and death
I had a friend in the same situation. I think he’s OK but his entire treatment cohort died and he went through hell himself to get it treated.
How many people will die directly from this ignorant hunk of fecal matter?
And he stated at a congressional hearing that no one should take medical advice from him. Then he shouldn’t be giving it
He’s so stupid. They’re all so very stupid.
And it so exhausting
My bf’s brother as well. RFK can’t die soon enough for me.
Aren't these the same people who want to marry 12 yr olds? Perhaps they should get the vaccine.
The HPV vaccine has saved thousands from death or disease and will save thousands more. I took my son to be vaccinated before it was universally given to boys for exactly the reasons you point out.
I remember around 1991-92 it was in the news for the first time, and only women were eligible for vaccine. I was livid. How do you think women & girls get the virus? From men & boys!!! I called the scientist cited in the article. He said it wasn’t worth the trouble to vaccinate males. 🙄
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Too bad he'll never have cervical cancer and experience the brutal treatment and the life long after effects of the treatment.
Trumps is the perfect representation of this cultural miasma the social networks have emboldened and brought to us
Practicing medicine without a license used to be a crime until Roid Boy. What gives? He's fucking nuts.
LIAR!!! CRAZY LIAR!!
Quack, quack said the moron in charge of our medical care
Jr spews as much false information as Trump. He’s a danger and a menace.
Many women died from cervical cancer from HPV. This lunatic will kill us all.
My daughter was a young teen when Gardsil became available. I raced to the Dr for her shots. Why? Because I trust science and vaccines save lives. #FuckRFK and his brain worm too!
Lotsa people are know-nothing, Dinning-Kruger hacks. They’re coming out of the woodwork.
Actually ...... it saves lives
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Many will die because of this evil worm brain ignorant narcissist.
He writes his legacy of ignorance in tombstones. Of course now he’s a Republican.
The first thing I did when RFK Jr fired all 17 members of the ACIP was to make peds appointments for my 2 teenage children, specifically so they could receive the HPV vaccine before this imbecile tries to ban it.
In Australia, HPV vaccines were introduced for girls (in 2007) and boys (in 2013). Look what happened to deaths from cervical cancer. RFK is a moron.
Source: www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/ef3...
Vaccines save life. RFK is an anti-science depopulationist. He doesn’t want us healthy, he wants us dead. He thinks *most of us* are essentially pollution. I was always about 10 years too old for the vax. So at 52 I asked my doc for it. I presented data …1/2.
2/2 biggest risk factor being reduced efficiency because of my age. We agreed that any protection topped no protection so she vaccinated me on the spot. Bottom line — advocate for yourself because no one else will. Especially not now. If you’ve aged out and your doctor says no, find a new doc.
Does RFK Jr think HPV results in immediate terminal cancer? Jfc
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This quote proves he is willfully ignorant of how vaccines work and how HPV leads to cancer in some people. Neither concept is difficult to understand in a general way. No woman would choose cervical cancer (the most common HPV cancer) treatment over a vaccine that would have prevented it.
RFK Jr. is not a smart man.
...more like a serial killer.
RFK is an idiot. He wants people to die of throat cancer. Maybe he's had it himself and he wants others to suffer it? That would explain his messed up voice.
Advice from a heroin junkey! No value!
Thank god I convinced my MAGA niece to vaccinate her daughter against HPV last year. If she read this before hand she never would have. People will suffer and die.
HPV was running rampant in America. I was a women’s counselor. This is truly insane. RFK is a madman with no integrity or intelligence. HPV will run rampant!
HPV caused my cervical cancer. If I had not had my annual pap smears, I would be dead.
i beg to differ though I am no medical expert but - neither is that fuckwit! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fuck RFK Jr in the head with a rock
It prevents teens and pre-teens from developing cancer later in life, you half-witted, brainworm-riddled backbirth.
My sister was just diagnosed with it.
I’m sure Michael Douglas would disagree.
It’s to the point where if he says don’t do it…you definitely want to do it.
As time goes on more blood will drip from his greedy little hands. This is what you get when viruses mutate
always remember he cares more about his ideology than the people it kills of maims. cervical cancer treatment does both of those takes ten years to show, is cause by HPV which is present in 80% of the population.
Ideally teenagers grow old enough where diseases of aging like cancer are a meaningful risk. But I guess children aging into adults is a fairly rare thing for an anti-vaxxer to witness.
Michael Douglas….might have?
No one on their right mind would listen to brain worm over doctors.
Huh. I actually did not know this existed. I Will consult my doctor.
RFK is the biggest threat to our health
My cousin had it too. Same. He would have welcomed the vaccination.
BTW, Michael Douglas, throat cancer survivor, supports HPV vaccination “Head and neck cancer can be caused by many things, including the HPV virus. Early awareness and vaccination are key factors in prevention.” oncodaily.com/stories/cele...
It was hardly an untold story. He was out in the world joking about how he got cancer from eating pussy a while back. It made gossip rags. I remember it. Remember feeling like this about it.
We have a vaccine for some cancers. How can you be so stupid to fuck that up? A vaccine. For cancers. So amazing. This is what we have dreamed about forever. "Nah that's okay give me the throat/penis/vagina cancer."
Alt text for image of leadership post RFK Jr: "Gardasil is probably the single worst mass vaccine that we've ever seen. Vaccine targets millions of pre-teens and teens, for whom the risk of dying from cervical cancer is zero. Nobody in their right mind would ever take this vaccine ...
...if they actually read the clinical literature." Image from this video www.instagram.com/reel/DKYMIyZ...
Can someone please summarize the clinical literature for us?
Very effective pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
Thank you for sharing. I absolutely support the vaccine - I’m just trying to work out what part of the study he’s calling out as dangerous.
I wouldn't work too hard. The guy cherry picks.
Scotland and Australia are in the way towards eliminating cervical cancer altogether. because of the high level of vaccine uptake in those countries.
It’s true we do not know how someone will react to a vaccine, but I would rather have. Reaction than the disease.
Each time one of my kids has become old enough to get it we have had an important conversation about cancer prevention and how incredible the very idea that a vaccine could prevent cancer is. They don't enjoy vaccines (gardasil does burn a bit) but they know why it's important and consent to them.
And some people might find it funny that they "consent" to having vaccines but the part that's funny to me is my kids at 10, 11, 12 can see and understand why vaccines are so important and understand the basics of how they work- and why ideas peddled by RFK are *RIDICULOUS*
Once they were old enough to understand, it became something they consented to just like any other choices in medical care and their bodies. Youngest gripes about shots hurting but that's the most resistance they give. Amazing what happens with well- educated youth ;)
An evil know-0 quack.
How did RFK Jr NOT get throat cancer via HPV. His lifestyle choices alone put him in high risk.
R.Fuck Kennedy Jr. Is a moron and dangerous.
@drdind.bsky.social No cervical cancer in Scotland a result of HPV vaccines -https://publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/january/no-cervical-cancer-cases-detected-in-vaccinated-women-following-hpv-immunisation/
Throat cancer, cervical, anal, vaginal, penile, bladder, testicular cancers all can be caused by HPV. Rfkay jr’s brain worm is working overtime.
He needs to go the way of a couple other Kennedys
The Dead Kennedys were my favorite punk band.
Like father like son?
RFK Jr. is a FUCKING LIAR and an idiot. Gardasil saves lives.
The HPV vaccine was an Australian science breakthrough. Every teenager deserves the option to have this vaccine. #amerikkka
A close friend got throat cancer via HPV. too. He underwent surgery. The scar is down from his ear, and across his throat. It’s not a pretty incision. It’s not clear if he’s free from the cancer, yet. RFK Jr is sadist. Full stop.
My brother died in June in the middle of his SECOND fight with throat cancer from HPV. He would be surprised to hear that never happens.