If the vaccine is great, why force it? Everyone should voluntarily submit their child for an injection.
Perry screwed up and admits it. That's something his followers cannot do.
What we should have done was a program that frankly should have allowed them to opt in, or some type of program like that, but here’s what I learned — when you get too far out in front of the parade they will let you know. And that’s exactly what our legislature did.”
UPDATE: “I made a mistake on that,” Perry told Iowa Radio later in the day Monday, calling it “an error"...
I side with your conclusion. I believe more in educating families and letting them voluntarily decide what course of action to take, not mandate it from government.
If informed appropriately, what parent wouldn’t want to protect their daughters given all the available information?