“What actual law does this refer? Not some regulation some ultralefty in the State Dept. dreamed up to benefit some company he used to work for. Why do you think some corporation trumps the Constitution?”
A 1996 immigration bill that requires recommended vaccinations for prospective citizens.
It doesn’t name Gardisil. The USCIS added it recently.
This is one of the unknown consequences of new laws. I won't say 'unintended' because I don't think our lawmakers deserve that benefit of the doubt. Health Care Reform will give us a thousand pages of new laws and regulations that can be expanded by bureaucrats in the same unforeseen way. How long before every female citizen is required to get this Gardisil vaccination?
"If we require it of immigrants why should citizens be exempt from it?"
What other vaccinations, drug regimens and procedures will be required? A Gardisil vaccination sets the bar pretty low considering how limited its transmission is and how relatively minor the affects of HPV are. If a case of genital warts can be deemed a public safety issue I can't see much of anything that couldn't be.
I don't want the government deciding all of my medical care decisions for me and mandating them with the same point-of-the-gun force the IRS relies on.