I happen to agree with her.
But that's what the article is about. She has never spoken out against the mandatory HPV vaccine in her own state.
“Her issue seemed to be with vaccines for things like HPV which are spread through deliberate behavioral choices.”
Just like most cases of Hep-B, which the article mentions.
Okay, fair enough. But if that is the case, then why didn't she try to do something about the Hep-B vaccine? That is mandated and is given to infants and toddlers, and it is for a disease that is primarily spread by sex and IV drug use (deliberate behavioral choices). So why didn't she try to overturn THAT mandate when she was in the Minnesota Legislature?
It makes her attack on Perry over the Gardasil issue look less like a principled conservative stand, and more like a crass attack on a front-runner for political advantage.
The idea here is to change the subject from Perry’s rotten EO, and make Bachmann the bad guy.
They don’t let the facts get in their way.
She didn’t make any such distinction in the debate. The issue was parental rights, and the suite of mandatory school vaccinations is as much a violation of those rights as Gardasil.
This whole line of attack is dishonest opportunism, and I have been generally preferred Bachmann over the others.
Did you read the article? It’s about Bachmann and Hepatitis B, which is spread through the same pathway/behavior as HPV...
Did you read the article? It’s about Bachmann and Hepatitis B, which is spread through the same pathway/behavior as HPV...
“Her issue seemed to be with vaccines for things like HPV which are spread through deliberate behavioral choices.”
so in other words, if a teen has sex, she deserves to die from cancer for her sins.
The author of this article points out that she was not opposed to mandating “other” vaccines that also spread as a result of “behavioral choices”. Seems like you did not read the artcile.
You are just WRONG. She got on television and said it caused mental retardation. With no scientific or medical backup she throws this out as fact. How many parents now won’t get this preventive vaccine because of fear? If it was just a parental issue should have kept the talking points she used during the first debate, however, desperation and hysteria has set in Ms. Bachmann.
And here you have a problem. Bachmann did NOTHING to stop parents from being excluded entirely in her own state of Minnesota when she was a legislator. Governor Perry guaranteed parents had the final say.
Bachmann's shown her true colors as a crass opportunist in the face of a faltering campaign. Hypocrisy has followed her for months. She's against hiking the debt ceiling except when she's signing a pledge to support increase it. She's against subsides except when she's taking income from a farm benefitting from them, income she denied but declared in her disclosure forms. She's against earmarks except when it's for her own home district.
She's flailing about demagoguing the vaccine itself when it's been tested in tens of thousands, continued safety monitoring shows it's been found no less safe than other vaccines, it's been approved for males as well as females now.
Yesterday she was on with Hannity claiming parents are too busy to be involved in their children's healthcare decisions so it's just too risky for government to ask parents to opt-out. It blew my mind!
She's lost all perspective and is engaged in the kind of underhandedness we expect from Democrats.
FROM THE ARTICLE: The Hepatitis B vaccination in Minnesota (state law since 1993) doesn’t even require parental consent at all. And Hep B’s communicability is similar to HPV in that it is primarily transmitted through intercourse... “
The point is that, as a state legislator, MB didn’t object to this vaccine. Her current stance is based more on her own falling in the polls than those ‘innocent little girls.”