Caplan MSNBC column on Gardasil

Our own Art Caplan has written a column about Gardasil and related issues for his twice-monthly MSNBC.com column, Breaking Bioethics. An excerpt...

"Medicine is poised to take a giant leap forward in the war on cervical cancer. But every American needs to think hard about the challenge this medical opportunity creates. The issue of cervical cancer vaccine will soon come to your school, church, synagogue, mosque and doctor's office. The right thing to do is to ensure as best we can that all young women are vaccinated. Now is the time to push politicians to make sure that the money will be there to make this happen. If insurance companies don't have to pay and public health departments cannot afford to then all the other moral issues surrounding this new vaccine become moot. It's time to prevent that from happening."