Here’s ya another one...
Author: ELIZABETH BLUEMINK
Anchorage Daily News
Staff
Date: June 5, 2007
Publication: Anchorage Daily News (AK)
Page: B1
Word count: 483
An expensive new vaccine that prevents cervical cancer will be available free to thousands more Alaska girls than previously announced, thanks to increased federal aid.
The state Department of Health and Social Services said Monday it will have enough money to distribute the vaccine Gardasil to at least 27,000 girls between the ages of 9 and 18.
State health officials said in April the shots would be provided free only to girls who were Alaska Native or American Indian, uninsured or...
again, that is only a problem if the issue with Gardisil is that taxpayers were helping to protect girls from STDs. If you think girls deserve STDs for having sex, then you’d be upset with Alaska for providing free and reduced-price vaccines.
So yes, those who are attacking Perry simply because the vaccine was Gardisil, and it’s an STD vaccine, should attack Palin because her state also gave an STD vaccine to girls using taxpayer dollars. Heck, you could throw in a “took money from the feds with strings attached”.
But if the issue is simply that he shouldn’t have put it on the required school vaccines, then the Alaska thing isn’t an issue. Of course, if the only issue is that it didn’t belong on the school vaccine list, that’s such a minor issue it doesn’t matter.
And if you think the issue is that Perry got $5000 from Merck, then the Alaska thing doesn’t matter.
But the Alaska thing should put down those who are attacking Perry and people here for “encouraging young girls to have sex” because we aren’t opposed to an STD vaccine.
Fortunately, while Bachmann made a big deal out of “innocent girls”, Palin didn’t. She went after the “mandatory vaccine” aspect, and Perry’s ex Chief-of-Staff getting a job with Merck.