It’s also not really a “potentially lethal medication”, any more than any of the other vaccines kids are “forced” to take.
And unlike, say, Polio, where people DO die from the vaccine, and virtually NOBODY dies from Polio anymore, there have been no confirmed cases of death caused by Gardasil, but 80% of the women in America will have an HPV infection at some point in their lives.
I oppose mandatory Gardasil vaccination, but I understand why people would push it, and it’s absurd for Bachman, a lawyer with no medical experience, to be actively discouraging women from getting the facts about Gardasil.
If women skip the vaccine because they are afraid of turning mentally retarded, and they get HPV, contract cervical cancer, and die, will that be Bachman’s fault?
Anyway, Perry’s order never went into effect, so NO girls got vaccinated because of what he did. But if they had vaccinated girls, lives would have been saved, not lost.