[RowdyFFC]

No, it wasn’t, not to Rick Perry. But it was to the liberals Women in Government who took a couple of $million dollars of Merck money to scare the pants off Texas parents and the many Texas parents were calling for the vaccination.

Here’s the deal about Gardasil and it needs to be put to rest:

In 2003 Rick Perry, four years before Gardasil was approved, signed a bill that for the first time in Texas history allowed parents to OPT OUT of ANY immunizations that parents deemed were dangerous to their children.

DO YOU GET THAT? ANY immunizations they deem dangerous to their children.

When Texas parents were yelling they wanted it and yelling they didn’t want it, the Texas legislature stalled.

In the meantime the feds said make it avaiable and make it paid for under SCHIP and Medicaid. In order to get it paid for it has to be a mandated immunization. So Perry just wrote an ExO that mandated it so the ones that wanted it could get it, and gave everybody else the opt out that hadn’t take taken THE ANY OPT OUT in 2003!

It’s that simple! And Perry should NEVER apologize for it.

[ncalburt]

Thanks for sum up the history of this tired over astroturfed / BS.
Please note HOW EASY IT IS FOR PERRY HATERS to post LIES like Merck made money off a Medicaid and SCHIP program.

The Perry haters are desperate !

[driftdiver]

Dr Perry screwed up and has admitted it. Thats fine, everyone makes mistakes. I have more respect for someone that admits a mistake than someone that tries to whitewash what everyone knows was bad bad medicine.

[Darkwolf377]

Thanks for posting that information. Odd how those who hate Perry here have never mentioned the opt-out before [at least in threads I`ve read]. That makes this entire subject a dead issue to me.

I`m also starting to respect the guy for actually getting in the race and taking the hits from all the others and coming away unscathed. Of those running, he`s the only one I could muster up real enthusiasm for.

[nralife]

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