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Rick Perry: Selling Sixth-Grade Girls' Health to the Highest Bidder?

Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check. September 15, 2011.

Perry's mandate of an HPV vaccine for young girls is part of a larger pattern of doing favors for campaign contributors--risks and conservative principles be damned.

Sorry GOP, My Cancer Screenings Are More Important Than Your Religious Beliefs

Andrea Grimes, RH Reality Check. April 10, 2011.

An anti-choice Texas Representative bent on defunding Planned Parenthood scoffed when I told him that I have high risk HPV and rely on Planned Parenthood for cancer screenings.

Latinos Face Alarming Cancer Rates

Christina Hernandez, Colorlines.com. October 22, 2009.

With the Latino population set to triple by 2050, expert warns of cancer "train wreck" tied to issues including the lack of health insurance.

How Effective Is the HPV Vaccine?

Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network. August 26, 2008.

The New England Journal of Medicine raises some serious questions about the vaccine's safety and effectiveness.

HPV Vaccine Flags Need for More Pap Tests

Judy Norsigian, Heather Stephenson, Women's eNews. September 5, 2007.

Questions still swirl around the HPV vaccine a year after it was introduced. But the public-health dialogue has made one thing clear: More women should get Pap tests.

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