[icwhatudo]

In Alaska, unless you are "a member" of a particular church or denomination, your only hope is to get a medical professional to certify the vaccination will harm you. In Texas, you just fill out a form saying it goes against your "conscience".

[RowdyFFC]

Not to mention that in 2003, four years before Gardasil was approved by the FDA, Rick Perry signed a piece of legislation that lets Texas parents OPT OUT of ANY immunizations they deem dangerous to their children, OR opt in, if they don’t.

Bachmann got written off the short list tonight because of her political hackery. Palin better do her research before she fully digs in on the Gardasil issue.

[cynwoody]

A distinction without a difference.

A religion is whatever I say it is. Any provision to the contrary is an establishment of religion and unconstitutional. So, if Gardasil is against my conscience, I don't need the say-so of no stinkin' medical professional.

[chuckles]

I just home schooled in Texas and skipped all the crap.

[DRey]

Wow. That’s a find. Hope you’ll keep this info at the ready over the next few days.

[Grey Eagle]

Bachmann and Santorum sounded shrill and uninformed tonight when attacking Governor Perry about the HPV vaccine. He explained the situation, and since that was several years ago, this should have been a non-issue.

[kalee]

Placemarker

[kalee]

Placemarker

[Sea Parrot]

Uh, is this relative to Perry's executive order to mandate the inoculation of female children for STD?

Or, it this for the standard mandated school inoculations throughout the US for children?

Sarah Palin made it quite clear in some of her 24,000 emails poured over by the LSM, that she was very critical of what Perry was doing at the time. Also she made it known to the Alaska legislature than any such bill would be vetoed by her.

Now if you cannot see the difference, that is your problem, not mine.

[Sun]

So IF Alaska is wrong, does that make Texas right?

[unseen1]

So did Palin accept a $5,000 campaign donation or did her former CoS work for the drug companies when these requirements were passed? If not I fail to see your point. Or maybe you wanted to point out how Palin tried to ignore the state elected lawmakers and mandate a vaccine for a STD by EO?

[AHerald]

Not quite sure what your point is regarding the comparative ease of opt out procedures on vaccines in Alaska vs. Texas. That policy in Alaska was not set by Gov. Palin so it fails as some sort of comparison to Perry.

A more valid comparison point is what Governor Palin believed about mandating vaccines.

This is from an email Governor Palin sent on January 18, 2008:

From: gov.sarah©yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations

Sharon-pls coordinate with Lt. Governor's office as they release this, as we don't want to have to follow up and explain it's Bd of Ed's call. If asked tho, u can let folks know I would not propose govt mandating anything like shots for our kids.

Source: http://rawdata.sarahsinbox.com/11279.pdf

[jocon307]

I’m a little disturbed at all this anti-immunization talk.

I think the gardisil order that Perry put in place was wrong for many reasons, but primarily because HPV is not, how can I put this, let me say “openly” contagious.

However, we are beginning to have problems with the recrudescence of many very bad diseases, such as whooping cough, because parents are not vaccinating their young children against extremely contagious diseases.

A large part of that is coming from the discredited, but still believed, rumors that vaccines cause autism.

So, I don’t want the baby (vaccinated or otherwise) thrown out with the bathwater.