The American Theocracy: Unchaste Women Should Die For Their Sins

It's that simple, folks: The wages of sin (read: female sexuality) is death.

Via The Light of Reason comes yet another horrifying example of the right's preference for death from disease over vaccines and education that might prevent such deaths:

DEATHS from cervical cancer could jump fourfold to a million a year by 2050, mainly in developing countries. This could be prevented by soon-to-be-approved vaccines against the virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer - but there are signs that opposition to the vaccines might lead to many preventable deaths.

The trouble is that the human papilloma virus (HPV) is sexually transmitted. So to prevent infection, girls will have to be vaccinated before they become sexually active, which could be a problem in many countries.

In the US, for instance, religious groups are gearing up to oppose vaccination, despite a survey showing 80 per cent of parents favour vaccinating their daughters. "Abstinence is the best way to prevent HPV," says Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council, a leading Christian lobby group that has made much of the fact that, because it can spread by skin contact, condoms are not as effective against HPV as they are against other viruses such as HIV.

"Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex," Maher claims, though it is arguable how many young women have even heard of the virus.

Here you have a representation of the Family Research Council, essentially coming out and SAYING that death is preferable than premarital sex. What the fuck kind of "culture of life" is this?

I haven't seen this kind of fear and loathing of sex, especially WOMEN and sex, since they stopped burning witches at the stake (and sometimes it feels like I've been around that long...).