Posted on 07/24/2011 10:56:30 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
Three months after Gov. Rick Perry ignited a firestorm by issuing an executive order to require schoolgirls to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, he is letting a bill go into law that will undo his mandate.
In an emotional speech to reporters Tuesday, during which the governor surrounded himself with women whose lives have been affected by the cancer-causing infection, Perry laid blame for future cervical cancer deaths at the feet of lawmakers who supported the bill.
Perry thanked the minority of legislators who voted against the bill and said, "No lost lives will occupy the confines of their conscience, sacrificed on the altar of political expediency."
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
More 'for the children' BS.
When the legislature passed a bill overriding him by a veto-proof majority, he gave in...but not before attacking their motives in an Obama-like fashion. Apparently STATES have rights, but PARENTS do not!
Rick Perry reminds me of GWB, only further left. Why would conservatives want him for President?
End all vaccinations! Polio for the people!
Didn’t he have a financial interest in the drug company that produced this drug?
ecause Peryy *looks* good - until you examine his record. Texas is a bloody mess in terms of its finances.
But - nobody in the present list seems to be really lighting any fires unless it’s Bachmann. The Big Money guys are afraid of Bachmann, because she won’t allow herself to be broken to their will, so they see her as a loose cannon.
Perry? He looks marketable, what with his sharp suits and “good hair.” (That’s what they used to call him - “Governor Good Hair.)
When “Generic Republican” can beat Obama, but none of the prsent list pulls Generic’s numbers, people will be looking for someone who can fill Generic’s shoes. (What size are they? Apparently not “one size fits all.)
This is the one thing that bothered me about Perry, even though they had an “opt out” option. I believe his wife being a nurse had a lot to do with him not backing down.
Perry and his staff discussed making the Gardisil vaccine mandatory on the day that Merck made a large donation to the campaign. He then wrote the Executive Order that did just that. Here’s some info about it:
http://com3.runboard.com/btheowlsnest.f13.t10822|offset=10
Really? I see no evidence he is a "compassionate" conservative and wants to expand government like Bush did.
Didn’t he have a financial interest in the drug company that produced this drug?
If you consider a $6,000 campaign contribution a financial interest. $6,000 is peanuts in the TX Governors race and want even get you in the handshake line much less a seat at any table with the gov.
I’m not opposed to vaccines. I am opposed to mandatory vaccines for STDs.
He did have an opt out, but IIRC it was a difficult and poorly publicized procedure.
lol We must have only the purest, honest, baldest, whitest, man—one who has made no mistakes, for our candidate, by gawd!
Had he fixed this himself, I would vote for him in spite of his financial interest in selling this vaccine.
Tyranny is tyranny no matter which party you belong to.
it was a difficult and poorly publicized procedure.
Really now. His EO made it easier to get the opt out than what existed at the time.
Hmmm...pro-illegal immigration, wants to vaccinate young girls for STDs, has supported both Al Gore and Rudy for President.
Maybe you don’t think he is for intrusive government, but I do. A Gov with a GOP-legislature has a very different list of temptations than a President who may have a Democrat Congress.
It’s GARDASIL to you bub! Get it straight! And Children will die!..........And it’s 2007 all over again!
(are you pissed yet?)
To opt out, you had to opt out of all the injections, opening yourself to child abuse charges and the loss of your children.
To opt out, you had to opt out of all the injections,
Really........ Where did you get that little tidbit of info? Care to provide a link?
“This is the one thing that bothered me about Perry, even though they had an “opt out” option. I believe his wife being a nurse had a lot to do with him not backing down.”
Don’t get fooled on the “Opt-Out” option. That option, as I understand it, applies to people people who swear that their religion prohibits vaccinations. In other words, for the vast majority of Texas parents, they would have had to purger themselves to prevent their daughters from being given this.
Perry still hasn’t explained why he was in SUCH A BIG HURRY to get these drugs to these little girls...and I don’t think he could remain a candidate if he ever did, truthfully, tell us why.
“If you consider a $6,000 campaign contribution a financial interest. $6,000 is peanuts in the TX Governors race and want even get you in the handshake line much less a seat at any table with the gov.”
Probably more the lobbyist connection - and that pays a lot more than ‘peanuts’.
Better politics via drugs, get those drugs to market, if people won’t buy drugs then mandate them, it’s for your own good to make someone else rich.
The enclosed disclaimer with the vials/boxes explains the complications after reading that it should be personal choice/option.
polio vaccine was a godsend for children.
mandatory vaccine for young girls, with severe side effects (even lethal),
for a purely sexually transmitted virus,
isn’t.
http://truthaboutgardasil.org/about-2/
“...Dr.Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines and director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group”
HERSELF came out against Gardasil.
“At a cost of $360 dollars for the full 3-shot course of vaccine, that comes to about $900,000,000 to prevent one death.”
(and where does the money come from? and now, the NY Times wants to give the same vaccine to boys also.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2750793/posts
our children already are serfs to the government, owing about $46,000. add a few thousand more. but at least they will be protected from 4 out of 120 hpv’s.
which in a FEW women, can cause cervical cancer, which in most cases is treatable.
sure, i’m willing to help prevent polio. but this seems more like the swine flu scam. and call me hard-hearted, but things like spending billions on aids research for a preventable disease, doesn’t sound worth indebted our children for.
and even the “opt-out” option was temporary, and not easy.
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