I hate cancer. We passed a $3 billion cancer initiative that same legislative session of which we’re trying to find over the next 10 years cures to cancers. Cervical cancer is caused by HPV. We wanted to bring that to the attention of these thousands of — of — of — tens of thousands of young people in our state. We allowed for an opt-out.
I don’t know what’s more strong for parental rights than having that opt-out. There’s a long list of diseases that cost our state and cost our country. It was on that list.
Now, did we handle it right? Should we have talked to the legislature first before we did it? Probably so. But at the end of the day, I will always err on the side of saving lives.
Allowing for an opt-out instead of an opt-in, and to always err on the side of saving lives are Perry's philosophical points of view I don't agree with.
That is the way it will be for conservatives with any Republican president who beats Obama. We won't be able to lay back and take a hay ride. We will have to ride him/her - inspect what we expect and raise cain when we don't get it. No room for screwing up in these times. With Perry, we have the tenth amendment to hang over his head when he is President. The decisions discussed in the debate that conservatives don't like, are decisions left to the people and the States so Perry, as Govenor had the authority to do what he did with the vaccine. He'd have no such authority as President under the constitution, to impose that on the country. Texans handed Perry's hat to him because vaccines are a decision they wanted left to the people. That's why I like Texas. We fight A LOT.