Sexually active unmarried women? Let them die in agony, say Christian activists

Fundamentalists Christians from the Christian Institute and Christian Voice organisations have spoken out in opposition to the Government’s plans to use a new vaccine to save up to 700 women a year from dying from cervical cancer. The vaccine, Gardasil, protects against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) that can lead to Cervical Cancer.

Colin Hart, director of the Christian Institute said of the vaccine: “It’s basically a sex jab, encouraging the view that girls can be sexually available. It is a disease that you can only get through being sexually promiscuous. The thing we should be doing is trying to stop kids being sexually active.”

Meanwhile, the even more appalling Stephen Green, national director of the extremist Christian Voice called it “a tart’s jab”. He said: 'The best way of not getting cervical cancer and genital warts is to stay a virgin and marry a virgin. Why don't these officials want young people to do that? Why don't we raise their expectations and ours and treat them with some respect? 'I expect school health outreach workers from Primary Care Trusts and the like will be giving Gardasil to young girls behind their parents' backs. Since the vaccine works best before the onset of sexual activity, they will be treating these girls, to put it bluntly, like tarts, saying they are sexually incontinent, lacking in self-respect and the basic morality required to keep their virginity.”

Dr Michael Irwin, co-ordinator of the Secular Medical Forum commented: “This vaccine has already been approved for use in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. It will prevent thousands of cases of cervical cancer occurring annually in the UK. Perhaps Colin Hart and Stephen Green should meet with these women and their families? Or perhaps even better - will someone please create a vaccine to shut up men such as them?”