I just also looked up info on Gardasil, which I haven’t done before.
I guess it’s a bad thing to try to prevent women from having cancer. With the opt-out it’s NOT “mandatory”.
“GARDASIL is the only human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that helps protect against 4 types of HPV. In girls and young women ages 9 to 26, GARDASIL helps protect against 2 types of HPV that cause about 75% of cervical cancer cases, and 2 more types that cause 90% of genital warts cases. In boys and young men ages 9 to 26, GARDASIL helps protect against 90% of genital warts cases.
GARDASIL also helps protect girls and young women ages 9 to 26 against 70% of vaginal cancer cases and up to 50% of vulvar cancer cases.”
http://www.gardasil.com/hpv/hpv-types/hpv-transmission/index.html?WT.mc_id=GL0ES&MTD=2
This is a totally ludicrous election issue — we have someone president who is literally destroying the country and our freedoms. Then we have Perry, who can beat him in 2012 and the worst thing people can say about Perry, is that he wanted to protect young girls from cancer... and I guess that is good enough reason for some to just give Obama 4 more years.
This is Twilight Zone stuff...
First of all, Gardasil DOES NOT prevent cancer. It is a vaccine that will work on certain strains of HPV, nothing more.
Secondly, Perry's original intent was to make this shot mandatory for all teenage girls.
Thirdly, HPV is 100% preventable WITHOUT shots.
Finally, the long term effects of this vaccine are not known. They want to give it to all girls in an effort to promote promiscuity. What will this drug do to their reproductive system? What are the long term effects?
Vaccines are for infectious diseases that don’t involve sex.
Airborne infectious agents, diseases that can spread rapidly to a population.
HPV is not this. Is the goverment going to take a position on every single vaccine that comes down the pike?
Unless Texas schools are a non stop orgy, there won’t be a HPV outbreak.
The government should not be involved in the decision of whether to get gardasil.