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To: metmom
You may find the following article interesting:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013001611.html?nav=hcmodule

"Sponsor to Pull Measure Mandating HPV Vaccine"

Apparently, a Maryland pol was trying to make this vaccine mandatory too, but, changed her mind, lol.

IIRC, several states are debating whether this vaccine should be mandatory.
704 posted on 02/06/2007 2:45:21 PM PST by khnyny
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To: khnyny
Sen. Delores G. Kelley (D-Baltimore County) said yesterday that she plans today to withdraw legislation that would have mandated that young girls be vaccinated against human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually transmitted virus.

"It's a timing problem," Kelley said, without providing more details about her decision to pull the bill.

Merck has been pushing for state laws mandating the vaccine since the federal government approved the drug eight months ago. No state has required the vaccination.

Timing issue. IOW, they're watching to see what the fallout is when one state tries to mandate it.

Funny how so many of the legislators are for it and so much of the general population is against it. I wonder if the lawmakers will *opt out* themselves and who would be giving THEM grief for it.

708 posted on 02/06/2007 3:30:14 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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