***If it were male children having this vaccine mandated, I’d bet there would me much more made of the situation.***
If Obama had done this, every FReeper here would still be screaming for his head. I cannot imagine one FReeper calmly waving this off and saying, “this is no big deal.”
It would be seen as a further sexualization of our children. It would be considered an affront to parental rights. It would be called a loss of civil liberties. We’d be fighting mad that he was medically experimenting on our vulnerable daughters.
We’d be in lock-step agreement that this executive order was a criminal act perpetuated on the people by a dictator.
But Perry is from TEXAS. He’s a COWBOY. And he has an “R” beside his name...
So it’s no big deal...
[hypocrites]
Good post, and ain’t it the truth.
“It would be seen as a further sexualization of our children. It would be considered an affront to parental rights. It would be called a loss of civil liberties. We’d be fighting mad that he was medically experimenting on our vulnerable daughters.”
All those arguments WERE made in 2007, against the original proposal, and the big public debate on the issue is why the EO was overruled by the lege. I was here, this came up, the public got involved, the lege put in law.
So Texas conservatives were NOT hypocrites, they opposed this mandate in 2007 and made Perry back down.
However, its factually wrong to talk of ‘he was medically experimenting’ this was FDA approved vaccine and CDC recommended its use, and the TMA and other medical groups stated that implementing this policy would save the lives of women.
It’s also wrong to call this ‘criminal act’, when in fact state law gives the Texas HHS Dept. power to determine immunizations that might be required and/or recommended for schools and in medicaid, and the EO was lawfully pursuant to that charter.
This was a public policy decision made in the EO, Perry got overruled by the hue and cry from the people and the lege complied and Perry backed down.