Science still doesn't have a cure for cancer, but for the first time it may actually have a vaccine. In a two year study involving 12,000 women, a vaccine was shown to be nearly 100 percent effective at preventing cervical cancer -- a disease that claims 3,700 women every year in the United States alone.

The proposed vaccine targets two strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV) known to cause cervical cancer. So while the cancer can't be cured, by immunizing against two strains of genital warts, nearly all cervical cancer can be prevented.

With such results, what group would possibly fight to keep this vaccine from the public in order to keep HPV and cervical cancer around?

The answer: the Family Research Council, headed up by James Dobson.

The Seattle area knows them better as the anti-gay group that led the Mayday for Marriage rally down at Safeco Field, an event which didn't go over well with the Seattle public.

So why would a group that says it's pro-life be against a vaccine that could prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths a year? "Abstinence is the best way to prevent HPV," Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council said. "Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a license to engage in premarital sex."

You may think that right-wing groups like these would be too out of reach with reality to have any influence on your health or medications, but that's just not true. The Family Research Council is a very influential lobbying group in the capital. Plan-B, a form of emergency contraception, was prevented from becoming over-the -counter because of the influence of groups like Dobson's.

The truth is that these groups need something to scare people with. HPV is one of the diseases in which transmission can't be prevented with condoms since they don't entirely cover the skin. Every time this group fights for abstinence only education, they mention that condoms aren't effective based on the fact they can't stop genital warts or herpes. Of course, this conveniently leaves out the fact they prevent the spread of HIV, the deadliest sexually transmitted infection.

So what happens when vaccines are found for the diseases condoms can't protect against? Groups like the Family Research Council can't scare us anymore, because their aim isn't protecting life. They want diseases like HIV and genital warts around as modern day scarlet letters, branding people that don't fit their mold of being perfect Christians. They would prefer to risk the lives of those who don't practice abstinence so they can scare others into believing their claims.

That way, when they tell us Spongebob Squarepants is trying to convert children to homosexuality, we won't think it's they who are crazy.

The Family Research Council says that its goal is to protect life and the family, yet they are opposed to life-saving vaccines. Stop groups like this from having influence in Washington. Their only goal is scare tactics, not saving lives.