Perry orders anti-cancer vaccine for schoolgirls

Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | Feb. 2, 2007 | LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON

[ConservaTexan]

which has been shown to have no serious side effects.

I am sure that this same thing was said about Thalidomide at one point.

[Spktyr]

I can't say that I agree with the critics on this one. There's an easy opt-out clause, and it appears to be a safe anti-carcinogen.

[lqclamar]

Perry = whore of the pharmaceuticals.

[basil]

Gads! How much worse would it be if we had elected a dim or a kook as governor?

[Spktyr]

Um, thalidomide is still around and still prescribed today - just not to women who are pregnant or who could become pregnant. It also wasn't thoroughly tested, and apparently this stuff has been.

[YCTHouston]

Lonestartimes.com has posted their take on the issue, essentially Perry has labeled Texas girls as sluts.

http://www.lonestartimes.com/

[passionfruit]

I understand that this injection will probably save lives. I find it to be a huge intrusion by goverment to MANDATE that any American be injected with ANYTHING.

[COEXERJ145]

I can't say that I agree with the critics on this one. There's an easy opt-out clause, and it appears to be a safe anti-carcinogen.

Some people see this as the government telling girls to go out and have as much sex as they want. They can't see that this vaccine is a way to reduce a certain type of cancer.

[Guenevere]

What is going on with Perry??????????

I am livid over this!

Perry, of all people....Texas, of all places!!!!!!

[mewzilla]

There's an easy opt-out clause...

Have you got a link? I'd like to read it :)

...and it appears to be a safe anti-carcinogen.

But it's not a panacea. And boys don't have to get it. Which is why I don't think it should be shoved down parents' throats.

[CrawDaddyCA]

Perry has several ties to Merck and Women in Government. One of the drug company's three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, his former chief of staff. His current chief of staff's mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi, is a state director for Women in Government.

As always, follow the money, ladies and gentlemen.

You know things are bad when politicians don't even try to cover up their corruption anymore.

[YCTHouston]

Rep. Dianne White Delisi is also one of the major heirs to the Scott & White Hospital fortune, so naturally she should be chairing our Public Health committee.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

I'd want proof of no ill effects after a 20 year study...

I can understand ordering vaccines for contagious diseases like Measles and Mumps.. but this is going too far. Is this the way the Republican part is going? Nanny State like the Libs?

I'm concerned..

[OldFriend]

Time for home schooling.

[stentorian conservative]

But he has said the cervical cancer vaccine is no different than the one that protects children against polio.

Maybe and maybe not. However I don't recall polio being a STD. This pulls the rug from under abstinence education and parental rights--waiver or no waiver.

[YCTHouston]

What makes me most mad is that he didn't even attempt to pass legislation, as Merck is pushing in a bunch of other states, he saved them the trouble and just issued an Executive Order. No need to call our elected representatives and voice our opinions now!

[OldFriend]

Work for Merck, do you?

[Emile]

More of government protecting us from ourselves. If we get socialized medicine, expect the government to feel justified in regulating all lifestyle choices, due to the fact that the taxpayers are paying for treatment of injuries and illnesses covered by such choices. Goodbye fast food. Goodbye smoking anywhere. Goodbye drinking. Goodbye private life. Goodbye freedom, hello nanny state 24/7.

[CholeraJoe]

And boys don't have to get it.

It hasn't been tested in boys, yet. Once it has been, I'm certain it will become mandatory for them as well.