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Oh for heaven's sake, a hit piece on Perry for making a decision on public safety. No discussion of the actual science behind the vaccine and whether or not it makes sense, just lots of innuendo and pharmaceutical industry bashing. It's amazing how anything related, even remotely, to sex can get so many people bent out of shape.

Well, then, you wouldn't have a problem with him banning all tobacco and alcohol, even in medicines, would you?

Or maybe making nicotine patches mandatory because some kids might smoke and get addicted to nicotine and develop all kinds of smoking related cancers, which are far more a risk faced that the cervical cancer this vaccine is supposed to prevent.

In true liberal style, you've choosen to ignore what people are saying. No one is complaining about making the vaccine available or getting it if one chooses, but that point is making it mandatory, bypassing normal legislative process, the government interfering with out personal lives and decisions, kind of like *Brave New World*.

This is supposed to be a representative republic, where the elected leaders REPRESENT what the people want, not a dictatorship where they issue dictums that the unwashed masses, who are too ignorant to think for themselves or know what's best for themselves, are expected to capitulate to.

Now, because this has come up so frequently, before you even mention the *opt out* part (which is a joke in reality); Have you ever taken a child to the doctor or pediatricians and tried to opt out of a vaccine?

And what would be wrong with encouraging people to get it and making it an opt in program? Not easy enough to get a list of dissenters for the government to track? Can't charge anyone with child abuse or neglect or endangering the welfare of a child and yank the kids and put them in foster care?

It's a free country. It needs to stay that way.

Oh for heaven's sake, a hit piece on Perry for making a decision on public safety.

If you think this is about public safety, then you have a lot to learn about Texas politics and about Rick Perry.