[free me]

Wow talk about misinformation!

Perry never "fixed" it:

In May of 2007, state legislators in Texas passed a bill that effectively overturned Governor Perry's order mandating Gardasil. In response to the bill, Governor Perry held a press conference where he first thanked the legislators who voted against the bill, and then referred to numerous cervical cancer survivors as evidence that the mandate was necessary.

"No lost lives will occupy the confines of their conscience, sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. ...

I challenge legislators to look these women in the eye and tell them, 'We could have prevented this disease for your daughters and your granddaughters, but we just didn't have the gumption to address all the misguided and misleading political rhetoric.' "

The bill's author, state Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, criticized the governor's decision "to use cancer victims as his backdrop for an issue that he has grossly misjudged."

" The governor has missed the point. Just because you don't want to offer up 165,000 11-year-old girls to be Merck's study group doesn't mean you don't care about women's health, doesn't mean you don't care about young girls."

Governor Perry allowed the bill to go into affect without vetoing it as the state legislature had enough votes to override the veto.

Me: Whatever you think about the Gardasil episode it's important to tell the truth about it.

[Clairity]

He changed it to “opt-in”, before the Legislature overrode the whole thing — so what is the problem with that?

[Diogenesis]

RINO Perry and his PerryBOTs have no shame
as they try to revise history.

GARDASIL-GATE:

RINO Perry's Chief of Staff worked for Merck
and, at the time, the Merck company was desperate for cash.
Solution: MANDATE GARDASIL BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.

RINO Perry rejected opponents' and Conservatives' calls to reverse
his mandate

There are >40 Types of HPV, 15 Types linked to cervical cancer.
Gardasil works against 4 Types and
does not grant full immunity to those 4 Types of HPV.
Gardasil offers no protection against the other
11 strains of HPV that have been linked to cervical cancer.

Sexually promiscuous women (not chaste girls)
require three shots over six months
CDC: 44% of teenagers received the HPV vaccine
but only 27% of them received all three requisite doses.
There is no evidence one does even works.

CDC: As of June 22, 2011, approximately 35 million doses of Gardasil
were distributed in the US. VAERS received a total
of 18,727 reports of adverse events; 68 deaths.

[dforest]

We live in a time where people believe what they want to believe if it makes them feel good or is supportive of what they want.

The facts and the truth are quite optional.

Thats how we ended up in this mess we are in now.

[Lesforlife]

Amen!!

This is the accurate version. Shame on CWA for white washing the
real story.

[truthfreedom]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4535418.html
Perry’s vaccination order still stoking fires

AUSTIN — Blowback continued at the Capitol on Wednesday over Gov. Rick Perry’s order mandating
that schoolgirls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4528909.html

Critics rip Perry’s vaccine mandate
Governor rejects opponents’ calls to reverse order

AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry stood firm Monday against a political firestorm generated by his
order that sixth-grade girls be inoculated against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer.

Social conservatives from Texas to Washington called on Perry to reverse his order making
Texas the first state to require the vaccine, saying the mandate makes sex seem permissible
and that parents should be the ones to decide whether to immunize their daughters.
And several Texas lawmakers expressed outrage at Perry for circumventing the legislative process.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/us/26texas.html

The vaccine, Gardasil, is manufactured by Merck, which was represented in Austin by the
lobbyist Mike Toomey, who was chief of staff for Mr. Perry from 2002 to 2004.