Do I need to fly to Rome and give the pope the finger?
Calgary's Catholic School Board refuses to offer the HPV vaccination program, wich is completely funded by Alberta Health Care, to students. As a result less than 19% of females attending Catholic school have been provided a proven vaccine that could prevent cervical and genital cancer. Those that have been vaccinated have had to go to clinics outside the school system.

What is more staggering is that the spokesperson for the Catholic School Board denies these numbers are as a result of their decision not carry the program and state that this is a moral issue and up to the parents.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that access is the issue - this is the reason school medical programs are so important - the kids are THERE.

Proof:  The Public school has about 80% participation by female students (parental consent is still required).

Typical arguments ensure between all parties visa vis this vaccine flies in the face of abstinence education being taught by the school versus deluded denial of the sexuality of teenagers.

This will be the local icing on the cake served today which was the Vatican's official message that female birth control medication (expelled as urine) has been contaminating the environment for years and directly links to the increased sterility found in men.

What a great day for women in the Catholic Church - if your parents and educators are not directly responsible for your future cervical cancer, expect at lease, that you will be accused of damaging men with your dirty female fluids.