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To: rintense
It was a pretty telling revelation that Gov. Sarah Palin was also approached by Merck about gardasil and she said hell no.

I don't know what makes you think that? While she was Governor, Gardisil was added to Alaska's immunization program, and they even accepted federal dollars to help pay for Gardisil vaccines for children.

What she apparently DIDN'T do was make it a mandatory vaccine for school attendance. I agree with that. But Merck stopped asking states to do Gardisil stuff in like February of 2007. So she didn't have to fight them off very long. Merck Ending Lobbying for mandatory Gardasil Vaccine -- February 27, 2007.

Palin took office in December of 2006, so they only had about two months to ask her to put it on the list. I think Palin said she had some e-mails about it, maybe someone could dig them up and post them, that would be enlightening.

But like I said, it is clear Palin wasn't opposed to Gardasil, or even to taxpayer funding for Gardasil (which also enriched Merck). We know that because we have seen links to the actual Alaska Government web pages that tout the programs, from late 2008 early 2009, while Sarah Palin was still governor.

Anyway, government decides all sorts of things it thinks is best for your child, and yes, they all infringe on your rights. You have to use a child safety seat in your car. You can't opt out of that one either. You will get a ticket, and CPS might come after you. Sarah Palin never spoke out against that mandate, nor has ANY conservative I've ever seen speak out against that.

So don't pretend conservatives are universally against any government law that mandates ANY action by parents. We are more or less opposed in general to these things, but we accept a lot of them without question or complaint.

At least with school vaccine requirements, some states have opt-out procedures, and Texas was one of those so PARENTS HAD THAT FINAL SAY in whether their kids got vaccinated or not. That is explicitly stated in Perry's EO.

Unless Michelle Bachman is on record for ending school-required vaccination programs, and lifting the car seat requirements, and the mandatory testing hospitals have to perform on newborns, she has no leg to stand on complaining about Perry adding ONE vaccine to the list on those grounds.

Her problem is the nature of the Gardasil vaccine, not some grand principle that government should never tell us anything about how to raise our children.

2,181 posted on 09/13/2011 10:16:36 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT
From the Office of Gov. Palin: Gardasil Fact Sheet

Now show me where Palin signed an Executive Order saying it was mandatory.

She didn't.

She put the choice in the hands of Alaskans at no cost to the state.

2,183 posted on 09/13/2011 10:27:19 AM PDT by rintense (Polls are for strippers and cross country skiing. ~ Sarah Palin, 9.3.11)
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