Posted on 02/05/2007 4:28:01 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
AUSTIN, Texas - Some conservatives and parents’ rights groups worry that requiring girls to get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way they raise their children.
By using an executive order that bypassed the Legislature, Republican Gov. Rick Perry — himself a conservative — on Friday avoided such opposition, making Texas the first state to mandate that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the virus.
Beginning in September 2008, girls entering the sixth grade will have to receive Gardasil, Merck & Co.’s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV.
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The New Jersey-based drug company is bankrolling efforts to pass state laws across the country mandating Gardasil for girls as young as 11 or 12. It doubled its lobbying budget in Texas and has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country.
Perry has ties to Merck and Women in Government. One of the drug company’s three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, Perry’s 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.
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Required STD shots worry some parents
Texas governor orders cervical cancer vaccine for schoolgirls
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Should a state require that schoolgirls get the shot against human papillomavirus?
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I bet you anything is scares allot more than "some"
Well, if at existing patterns of schoolgirls' sexual activity [for these patterns are not going to budge much, no matter what the parents or the governor say or do] it would prevent a sizable number of viral infections - then so much the better. Is the vaccine effective or is it mostly hype?
Goodhair has outed himself as either the most corrupt governor in the state's history or a socialist.
No one has the right to force a medical procedure on anyone. Refuse it. Period!
Should a state require that schoolgirls get the shot against human papillomavirus? * 58914 responses
62% No, parents should decide whether or not their daughters are vaccinated.
35% Yes, the vaccine is best for girls' health.
2.9% I don't know.
While the vaccine may be best for the long term health of females in the state, it is not Good Hair's job to tell me how to raise my daughter!
Outrageous.
This is an outrage!
Hillary Clinton would not propose this program even if she were on 10 hits of LSD.
What a shameful display. It's these sorts of actions that got the GOP tossed out of power last year.
All for reducing the possibility of her maybe developing cancer from an STD that she might contract based on behavior she might partake in years (hopefully!) from now?!!?
Nope, not worth it.
Remember Thalidomide? Remember Vioxx?
How can a vaccine make people promiscuous? Measles vaccines don't make people go out and try to get measles, does it? Why not make such a big deal out of it, and just say it's a vaccine for girls, and leave it at that?
Aren't vacinations required?
Vioxx should still be on the market. It's just the fear of lawsuits that keeps it off not any regulatory ruling. There are lots of people like my mom who don't get the pain relief they need from other drugs. Perhaps the number of people taking it should decrease, due to the potential complications, but it shouldn't be off the market.
If you don't want your daughter getting the vaccination, it's fine with me. But don't expect me to pay extra on my insurance premiums for her cervical cancer if she gets it.
Yes and no. Find me a school in America today that allows kindergartners to attend school without several different vaccines.
Ed Rendell just commanded this via an executive order if I understood the drive time talk guy tonight. I didn't call in but what was running through my mind was:
What if my daughter would be raped? I am presuming this gives lifetime protection also.
The government already mandates a plethora of required vaccinations. I know this one, on the face of it, sounds different. And, I don't know that the rest of them are required by executive order. I think that makes it different also. And fishy.
I'm sure there is some money involved. It obviously becomes a steady revenue source for the drug company. I don't hear democrats complaining about this one.
On the talk show the teachers union was mentioned as a possible source for this initiative although I don't know that is a fact but sounds plausible.
How many other vaccines have you refused doctors to give your daughter, required to enter school?
Not every vaccine ever developed for every conceivable disease. You don't have to get vaccinations for anthrax, or plague in order to go to school. Do you know why there isn't a vaccine on the market against Streptococcus mutans, the bacterium that causes tooth decay? If you could be vaccinated against tooth decay, just imagine the benefit. It's because the antibodies against S. mutans also attack the heart. How do you know that this new vaccine against HPV won't cause autoimmune problems in the future?
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