You don’t seem to understand, Pnsn. The Legislature made the law requiring mandated vaccines and changing from opt in to “opt out” and then making the rules more and more restrictive.
In the meantime, the Feds had already made sure that Medicaid and the Vaccines for Children program would offer Gardasil free of charge to everyone except those girls with insurance that paid for mandatory vaccines. Texas is required by law to pay our share of these vaccines.
The Governor tried to make it possible for girls whose parents have insurance that pays for vaccines to get this vaccine if the parents want it. If any parent does not want the vaccine - or any of them - the Governor told the director of the DSHS to make it easier to obtain the form for opting out.
As one of “We the People,” I see that the Governor increased freedom, rather than limit it.