[Sybeck1]

His softness on illegals is a bigger concern to me.

[unspun]

There is no excuse for the coercion of girls to take this harmful treatment (or for the message it sends, that girls are for fornication).

[Happy Rain]

Perry has not been tested in a national campaign yet—he hasn't had to go through what our other candidates went through last night—he hasn't had to experience the raw irrational hatred of the Leftist media and still come out on top as Sarah Palin does—til he has,I will give him the benefit of the doubt only.

Right now the Perry campaign is but propaganda and potential sophistry.

[hocndoc]

Thanks!

[Reagan69]

The problem was that he was paid handsomely by Merck.

Same old political routine.

[RKBA Democrat]

Yep. Looks like spinning Gardasil Rick’s record has already started.

I don’t have a problem with the gardasil vaccine. It probably makes sense and parents probably should see to it that their children are vaccinated. The question is one of persuasion versus using the power of the state to mandate action. By ordering parents to subject their children to the vaccine, Gardasil Rick let slip his underlying political philosophy: he’s a statist. He believes that parents are too stupid, feckless, or ill advised to make decisions about their own children. And that he, as leader and in his infinite beneficience, can better make those sorts of decisions for you.

So how is that really any different from views espoused by urkel and his minions? The degree of intensity is different but the playbook is essentially the same.

So, if this comes down to a contest between urkel the statist and Gardasil Rick the statist, how do Americans in general and conservatives in particular come out of this as winners 10 years down the line?

Gardasil Rick is just another gop statist. An establishment republican with a better haircut and more polished delivery.

[jla]

A non-issue, except to those attempting to smear Rick Perry, of whom are mostly Palin drones.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Defend THIS:

[Governor Rick Perry] Commemorating the [Muslim Leader] Aga Khan's Visit (April 12, 2008)

Perry has a Muslim problem just like his illegal alien/open borders problem.

[Diogenesis]

America must guard against Gardasil Perry the RINO,
which is what he is — unless he admits the MANDATE
by EXECUTIVE ORDER was wrong and bad judgment.

[hadaclueonce]

We knew it was going to come to this.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2740218/posts?page=25#25

[Cboldt]

I believe this article is fundamentally misleading.

It suggests, without coming out and saying it, that making the Gardasil vaccination "mandatory" (scare quotes to acknowledge the presence of a formal opt-out process) was a legislative decision. It was not.

It's my belief that the order making Gardasil mandatory came solely from Perry's EO.

[deport]

Not that it matters much but here is the Executive Order in question.

RP-65

BY THE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF TEXAS
Executive Department
Austin, Texas
February 2, 2007
WHEREAS,immunization from vaccine-preventable diseases such as Human Papillomavirus (HPV) protects individuals who receive the vaccine; and
WHEREAS,HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection-causing cancer in females in the United States; and

WHEREAS,the United States Food and Drug Administration estimates there are 9,710 new cases of cervical cancer, many of which are caused by HPV, and 3,700 deaths from cervical cancer each year in the United States; and

WHEREAS,the Texas Cancer Registry estimates there were 1,169 new cases and 391 deaths from cervical cancer in Texas in 2006; and

WHEREAS,research has shown that the HPV vaccine is highly effective in preventing the infections that are the cause of many of the cervical cancers; and

WHEREAS,HPV vaccine is only effective if administered before infection occurs; and

WHEREAS,the newly approved HPV vaccine is a great advance in the protection of women’s health; and

WHEREAS,the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend the HPV vaccine for females who are nine years through 26 years of age;

NOW THEREFORE, I, RICK PERRY,Governor of Texas, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas as the Chief Executive Officer, do hereby order the following:

Vaccine.The Department of State Health Services shall make the HPV vaccine available through the Texas Vaccines for Children program for eligible young females up to age 18, and the Health and Human Services Commission shall make the vaccine available to Medicaid-eligible young females from age 19 to 21.

Rules.The Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner shall adopt rules that mandate the age appropriate vaccination of all female children for HPV prior to admission to the sixth grade.

Availability.The Department of State Health Services and the Health and Human Services Commission will move expeditiously to make the vaccine available as soon as possible.

Public Information.The Department of State Health Services will implement a public awareness campaign to educate the public of the importance of vaccination, the availability of the vaccine, and the subsequent requirements under the rules that will be adopted.

Parents’ Rights.The Department of State Health Services will, in order to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children’s health care, modify the current process in order to allow parents to submit a request for a conscientious objection affidavit form via the Internet while maintaining privacy safeguards under current law.

This executive order supersedes all previous orders on this matter that are in conflict or inconsistent with its terms and this order shall remain in effect and in full force until modified, amended, rescinded, or superseded by me or by a succeeding governor.

Given under my hand this the 2nd day of February, 2007.
RICK PERRY(Signature)
Governor
Attested by:
ROGER WILLIAMS(Signature)
Secretary of State

[Scotswife]

my daughter felt ill after her first shot.

She went in for her second shot while Dad waited in the waiting room (don’t ask)

She gets the shot - the nurse leaves the room.
When the nurse returned, my daughter was unconscious and having a seizure. She had vomitted, and her lips were blue.

My daughter had NEVER had a seizure before. Never.

She will not be receiving the 3rd shot - ever.
I would not recommend anyone taking their child in to put this crap in their veins.

[PieterCasparzen]

Being “vaccinated” against sexually transmitted diseases gives people a comfort level with fornication.

Fornication includes any sexual activity outside of marriage.

The real, true conservative viewpoint is the Judeo-Christian viewpoint, that any sort of sexual activity while not married is a sin.

Divorce, in the absence of much adultery, should be a very rare occurrence.

When society gets comfortable with the sins of fornication and adultery, there is an enormous cost to society. All the “collateral damage” - divorce, vices, all sorts of hedonistic behavior. That is because when one’s life is ruined by the consequences of one’s acts, one tends to “give up” morally and partake of all sort of vices, since one says to oneself things along the lines of “I might as well have fun, my life is a mess anyway - I’ve been wronged or had bad luck - only I care about me, I might as well get what I can for myself and enjoy life as much as I can”. Responsibility flies out the window. And lack of responsibility is a bad habit to get into - because responsibility is needed in many parts of life: financial, charitable, raising children, caring for elders, staying safe, etc.

If you want your young sons and daughters to become complacent about remaining chaste until they are married, if you want them to fall prey to the oh so subtle deception that “a little” sex is ok just this once, no one will know, it’s no big deal, everyone does it, etc., then just give them that little bit of comfort. Make sure they get their vaccine. You can sleep better at night too, knowing that since you’ve surrendered their bodies to fornication, you can rely on the firm foundation of the sign and the seal of vaccination that will protect them. Don’t worry - resigning their physical bodies to corruption is really small potatoes, since you’ve already set their souls on the path to damnation by planting the seed of thought in their mind that they probably will have sex at some point before they are married. Even though you’ve planted this tiny see that will start to make them comfortable with sin, don’t worry, you’ve done the responsible thing and made sure they had their saving medicine to protect them.

Romans 6:23

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

And nothing man creates can save us from the death which is the consequence of sin.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Thank you for posting this, I had forgotten what a big-government lovin’ fool Gov. Perry really was! Any politician who would completely undermine the authority of every parent to make important medical decisions for their own children isn’t fit to be on a city council. Any politician stupid enough to do this in Texas isn’t smart enough to be a dog catcher!

[Buckeye McFrog]

So....the article is basically saying that he agrees with the principle behind Romneycare and Obamacare (put a gun to the head of private insurance companies so the end user gets something for “free”)?

We have an opt-out provision here in Pennsylvania too (put in place to placate our Amish population). But you have to dig really, really deep to find it, and the school administrators will fight you tooth-and-nail if you try and exercise it. There is actually a state form which we could not locate anyplace except from one guy who ran a counter-cultural health food store. The school administration lied their arses off claiming that there was no opt-out until we had to really force the issue in a very public way.

I don’t imagine the situation in Texas was much different.
Perry knew what he was doing. This was about campaign cash from Merck.

[org.whodat]

Perry and reason should never appear in the same headline, is it true he was a pom pom star.

[SoConPubbie]

Because 15% of girls begin sex before age 15 and half of girls who have sex before 20 say their first time was involuntary, the first trial of Gardasil involved 1200 girls between the ages of 9 and 15. The girls 15 and under had a better response to the vaccine than the older girls and women 16 and above. The researchers compared blood levels of antibodies. The research ethics committee ensured that no paps or pelvics were done on the young girls. (Every one of the young women under the age of 21 when I sent them for colposcopy for cancerous changes had been raped before they were 15 years old.)

So based on completely made up/false statistics that 50% of girls are raped, and a drug that is effective against a disease that is sexually related/acquired, Perry mandated it's use for all girls/young women?

???????

Hello!

Either Perry is another mis-labeled "Compassionate" conservative, a big-Government politician, and/or completely ill-prepared to lead.

I see you are still pimping for your candidate however illogical/lacking in conservative principles the issue at hand is CW.

[fieldmarshaldj]

You guys are getting ever-so-closer to being as bad as the Slick Willardbots with your talking points.

[TradicalRC]

Government should not be in the business of mandating medicine.