Yesterday Mary Harney announced the decision to halt the provision of the HPV vaccination to girls aged 12 years, a reversal of a decision made last August. This vaccine has the potential to prevent cervical cancer. I believe this is a mistake and this morning a listener on the Ray D’Arcy show suggested a way to let Mary Harney know what we thought: what if we all sent emails to the Minister with photos of their daughters expressing our dismay over this decision to deny these girls a vaccine which may prevent them getting cervical cancer in later years?
The Ray D’Arcy show has a link where you can send an email directly and it will only take a second. You can do it here: Today FM. Or if you’d like to send a photo of your daughter, the address is minister’s_office@health.irlgov.ie
Other blogs talking about this today:
Redmum
Alexia
Damian
The Cedar Lounge
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Erik 11.06.08 at 3:57 pm
WOW. It has been so long without a peep. Marci and I were actually wondering about you last night. Eve is soooo beautiful and quite the poser!
gingerpixel 11.06.08 at 4:52 pm
I know! I’ve been very bad. Things are finally returning to a normal level of chaos so I just need to get back in the habit of blogging.
Grannymar 11.06.08 at 11:25 pm
See is just beautiful!
redmum 11.07.08 at 11:07 am
Thanks for this Claire, and the pics are great. She is getting so grown up!
steph 11.08.08 at 12:00 am
Hi! there,
I’ve linked to your site to help drive home the message to Harney.
Thanks for letting us meet Eve, she’s adorable!
neil 11.09.08 at 5:31 pm
Lovely Photos, hope they do their part to force Harney to re-reverse the decision.
Nice hat, is Eve getting involved in Scouts?
gingerpixel 11.10.08 at 11:29 am
Hi Neil, the hat she’s wearing is her Daddy’s old cub scout hat from when he was only a little bit older than her.
neil 11.10.08 at 7:17 pm
Yeah, thought it looked vintage.
Hope she does get into it. I’ve been involved in Scouting for 14 years now, and as cheesy as it sounds, it’s made me the person I am now.
Omaniblog 11.11.08 at 12:11 am
Welcome back. Great to see you again. I’ll join in too, tomorrow. Well said. Well shot.
Omaniblog 11.11.08 at 12:20 am
I sent an email to Claire S Wilson, an illustrator, thinking I was sending it to you. Do you often get mixed up with her?
gingerpixel 11.11.08 at 10:15 am
Hi Omani, it’s great to have you back too. I’ve been mistaken for a Claire Wilson who owns a hat shop in England but not Claire S Wilson the illustrator. This never happened to me before I got married…I knew I should have kept my maiden name
Frank Fullard 11.16.08 at 8:46 pm
This is a fantastic blog entry and I cannot think of a better way to make a point.
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