What argument with dems do I have for this overreach? Hey, at least the legislature made sure we dodged that bullet? Thanks for that great bit of ammunition.
“the EO was written meant requiring Texas citizens to contact the government and get PERMISSION to NOT have to inject their daughters with something they felt may not be safe.”
Oh, the horrid horrid horrid Perry. Nobody before him had ever ever dared to tell parents to immunize their kids ....
oh wait a sec.
They DID.
The Texas lege passed laws requiring immunization of schoolchildren.
The Texas lege passed laws allowing the Texas Dept of Health to determine immunization schedules.
The Texas lege passed laws giving the Texas executive branch power to make determinations to change those immunization schedules.
HepB, DTaP, Polio, Hib, PCV, MMR, Varicella, Hep A
It’s all there in the vaccination schedule:
http://info.sos.state.tx.us/fids/201102478-1.html
WOW. This was even done before Perry was governor.
Do you support those laws? These needle-injecting policies?
DO YOU SUPPORT THE LAWS THAT MANDATE NO LESS THAN 21 DIFFERENT VACCINES DOSES TO YOUNG GIRLS, YOUNG BOYS EVEN ***BABIES***?!? OMG, PRECIOUS LITTLE INFANTS!
The lege - before Perry - set about requiring Texas citizens to contact the government and get PERMISSION to NOT have to inject their daughters and infants with something “they felt may not be safe.”
How can you in good conscience not be appalled by this if you feel this way about Perry’s EO?
“What argument with dems do I have for this overreach?”
No argument at all. Vaccines one day, socialist labor camps the next. Its all the same, and if you cant distinguish the two, you have no argument at all.
But I have to tell you, Texas parents have more opt-out rights than Minnesota parents, which make Bachmann quite the sell-out on this ...
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/321389.php
“By all appearances, she felt no need to mention, much less work towards stopping, a vaccination that, by her own standards, is an assault on liberty. Even more so actually. The HPV vaccination, while called mandatory, made available an opt-out provision so that the parental rights that she felt were so paramount could be protected in this decision. The Hepatitis B vaccination in Minnesota (state law since 1993) doesn’t even require parental consent at all. And Hep B’s communicability is similar to HPV in that it is primarily transmitted through intercourse, as opposed to being an airborne illness. Currently, no records can be found of Michele Bachmann sponsoring legislation in the Minnesota legislature to repeal the Hep B vaccination ...
Congressman Bachmann served in the Minnesota congress for 5 years. In all that time, she never felt quite as driven by her parental instincts and conservative nature to decry or work to reverse what now she clearly consider to be an incredible breach of conservative values. I wonder what’s changed? Were the children of Minnesota not important enough? Is it only robbing a childhood if it’s vaccinations that her opponent supported but the one’s back home are just fine? Did she lack the same leadership qualities then? “