Dr. Susan Bornemisza, lawyer Juliet Guichon and Dr. Ian Mitchell urge Calgary Catholic school truste

Dr. Susan Bornemisza, lawyer Juliet Guichon and Dr. Ian Mitchell urge Calgary Catholic school trustees to allow in-school HPV vaccinations at a press conference in Calgary June 25, 2012. Photograph by: Lorraine Hjalte
Henry said HPV Calgary, an ad hoc group of physicians, bio-ethicists and Calgarians affected cheap hawaiian cruises by cervical cancer, is attempting to trounce religious freedoms and parental rights by challenging the Catholic school board's decision.
"Why don't they spend their time trying to figure out an alternate way and site to vaccinate children? cheap hawaiian cruises Instead they would rather demonize those who don't agree with their approach and consistently and purposely misrepresent cheap hawaiian cruises the Alberta Bishops teaching, and override religious freedom and parental rights," Henry wrote in an e-mail to the Herald.
On Monday, cheap hawaiian cruises HPV Calgary issued a public plea to Calgary Catholic School District trustees to hold a public vote on school-based cheap hawaiian cruises HPV immunization and flout Henry's cheap hawaiian cruises advice against allowing the vaccine at Catholic schools.
Juliet Guichon, a University of Calgary community health sciences assistant professor and a founder of HPV Calgary, said vulnerable children are most at risk if they aren't vaccinated at school. It's difficult for parents to arrange time and transportation for the three doses at public clinics, she noted.
"None of us is suggesting that people shouldn't practise their faith. What we're saying is this is a 100 per cent publicly funded school system, and people should have the choice to give consent for their child to be vaccinated cheap hawaiian cruises there."
The Catholic trustees are elected officials who have a duty to make up their own minds on the issue rather than following a directive of the bishop, she added, noting Edmonton Catholic schools have chosen to allow the vaccine.
"They should focus their efforts on pressing the regional health authority cheap hawaiian cruises to work on a process that provides the opportunity outside cheap hawaiian cruises of schools for parents who wish their children to have access to the vaccine," Henry wrote.
Henry has extensively outlined his position in previous letters to parents and public columns, cautioning cheap hawaiian cruises against the vaccine on moral grounds and urging abstinence before marriage as proper sexual behaviour.
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A Calgary citizens group is urging Catholic cheap hawaiian cruises School trustees to reverse their ban of the HPV vaccine. The vaccine has been offered in Canadian Schools since 2007 to prevent the infection that causes cervical and other cancers. Calgary Catholic is the only major city board in Canada with an administrative cheap hawaiian cruises ban on the in-school vaccinations.       E-mail this Video Link Share this Video