Parents outraged at Halton Catholic Board’s attempt to ‘ram through’ HPV vaccine

BURLINGTON, Ontario, Oct. 9, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Halton Catholic District School Board is moving to grant public health officials access to children in schools to administer the controversial HPV vaccine rather than the current practice of allowing parents to choose for their children to access the vaccine in free clinics.

“People are talking about voting on this as early as Tuesday,” Anthony Danko, a school board trustee for Oakville, told LifeSiteNews. “Not only is there no notice given, the decision would be made right after a holiday weekend when presumably nobody’s keeping up on current events.”

The school board allowed Halton’s health department to use their schools to give grade 8 girls the HPV vaccine in the fall of 2007. But they reversed course in June 2008 after parents expressed concerns over the severe health risks of the vaccine and over concerns that they were compromising the Church’s stance against premarital sex. The HPV virus is communicated through sexual contact.

The board is reportedly the only one left in Ontario not to offer the vaccine.  (more...)

Parents outraged at Halton Catholic Board’s attempt to ‘ram through’ HPV vaccine