The opt out option was designed to be difficult to effect, and by making it required, would mean mega-bucks for Merck for those that only knew their children were getting “required vaccines”.
It’s very disingenuous to suggest that the effect of this wasn’t to line Merck’s pocket, after it had lined Perry’s pocket, and by using statist methods to do so.
Perry was very wrong on this. If the vaccine was such a boon, it should have been presented as an option and left for parents to decide - not the Gov by executive fiat. “I know what’s better for you than you do” is not an attitude that we need more of in Washington.
Call this whatever you like: it’s not conservative.
It will be interesting to see how the MSM uses some conservatives' concerns on this to help Obama win re-election.