Religious conservatives play their trump card

IT IS not surprising that Fr Eamonn McCarthy of Coachford in Co Cork is unhappy about the HPV vaccine (‘Priest urges chastity instead of cervical cancer jab’, August 31).

Religious conservatives have lost the argument against condoms due to their success in preventing sexually transmitted infections.

The fact that the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) still exists and may not be prevented through condom use is their trump card in trying to scare young people away from sex and undermining condom use – why bother when you could get HPV anyway?