I think we need to hear what Governor Perry’s saying. He’s saying that his policy was right. He believes that what he did was right. He thinks he went about it the wrong way.
I believe your policy is wrong. Why — ladies and gentlemen, why do we inoculate people with vaccines in public schools? Because we’re afraid of those diseases being communicable between people at school. And therefore, to protect the rest of the people at school, we have vaccinations to protect those children.
Unless Texas has a very progressive way of communicating diseases in their school by way of their curriculum, then there is no government purpose served for having little girls inoculated at the force and compulsion of the government. This is big government run amok. It is bad policy, and it should not have been done
50% of high school grads are sexually active, some unwillingly. HPV is certainly communicable among that population.
In 2005, Texas had 1,100 new cases of cervical cancer per year and one-third lead to death according to the legislature. We have vaccinations to protect those children.
For all Bachmann's beating the "mandate" drum and sounding like a Democrat by claiming "choice" was "taken away from little girls," the vaccine was optional if parents didn't want it.
You are exactly right.
“Why — ladies and gentlemen, why do we inoculate people with vaccines in public schools? Because we’re afraid of those diseases being communicable between people at school.”
How is Hepatitis B transmitted at school?