[Hodar]

Immigration law mandates that Simone get the vaccine to protect against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, which has been linked to cervical cancer.

So, we are either a country of laws, or we are not. Wanna be a citizen? Follow the law, if you don't want the shot, please pack your bags and don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[troy McClure]

Forcing one to use a drug is not freedom.

She has every right to refuse that drug.

[norton]

So, we are either a country of laws, or we are not.

Fine, the law applies to immigrants over the age of eleven. This kid was apparently eight when she immigrated, well under the age required by a law passed long after either her entry or her application for citizenship.

She was outside of the target group when she came here and when she applied. She was already well along in the process when the law passed less than two years ago:

Unless you believe in retroactive laws, and unless they go back and inoculate every other youngish female who got here before 2008, you shouldn't have a problem.

[ichabod1]

So, we are either a country of laws, or we are not. Wanna be a citizen?

We're not a country of laws, we're a country of influence. It's all in who you're knowin and who you're blowin.

[VRWCmember]

Immigration law mandates that Simone get the vaccine to protect against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, which has been linked to cervical cancer.

So, we are either a country of laws, or we are not. Wanna be a citizen? Follow the law, if you don't want the shot, please pack your bags and don't let the door hit you on the way out.

I would venture to say that the sentence in the article is incorrect. I doubt that any legislation has been passed that mandated the vaccine, but rather unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats at the CDC have imposed a regulation that the unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats at the INS are enforcing. Find a statute passed by congress that mandates Gardasil, and I will reluctantly agree with your point and at the same time argue that the law should be challenged under Roe v Wade. Otherwise, I would argue that the unelected bureaucrats are grossly exceeding their authority in this case.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I’m trying to figure out when the congress voted to add the HPV vaccination to the requirements for citizenship. Wouldn’t we have noticed an immigration law being passed?

Or is this just a directive from the Obama administration? Or the Bush administration before him?

[Vigilanteman]

I'm willing to bet this isn't a law, but a regulation. And it is a regulation no more valid than all the idiot gun laws on the books which assume that anyone who owns a gun is a potential criminal unless they prove otherwise.

This law or regulation assumes every young girl is going to be sexually promiscuous and won't even give young Simone a chance to prove otherwise. That is dead wrong and Simone is right to fight it.

[Paleo Conservative]

So, we are either a country of laws, or we are not. Wanna be a citizen? Follow the law, if you don't want the shot, please pack your bags and don't let the door hit you on the way out.

What law? Did Congress pass legislation authorizing this?