“Other states like Alaska encouraged it by advertising it on the government web site, recommending people take it, and offering it for free under a federal tax-payer funded program.”
However, it wasn’t mandated in Alaska like Perry tried to do, but didn’t get away with it. Do you really want a Nanny president?
Lots of vaccines are mandated, even in Alaska, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.
That’s why Gardasil was being “added” to a list — there was already a list.
I don’t know if you noticed, but a lot of people are complaining about Gardasil itself now. Like in THIS thread, where we are talking about a fringe group backing Bachman on her “mental retardation” charge.
If Gardasil is actually HARMFUL, isn’t it bad for a state to advertise it, encourage it, and pay for it, even if it is “voluntary”?
Not that Gardasil would have been mandatory in Texas.
And I’m not worried in the slightest bit about Rick Perry being a “Nanny” President. I see nothing in his Gardasil move that suggests that. Anyway, it’s Jobs, the Economy, the Debt, Obamacare, national Security. That’s 5 without even thinking, and NONE of them are related to “putting Gardasil on a school-required vaccine list”.