Sorry, but IF there’s an opt-out, and there was, then it was not a “mandate”. It was a standard. There is a difference.
There are also a few things important to know:
Additional risk factors primarily identified for females include partner sexual behavior (26) and immune status (37,38). Genital HPV infection also can be transmitted by nonsexual routes, but this is uncommon. Nonsexual routes of genital HPV transmission include transmission from a mother to a newborn baby (39,40).
Michelle Malkin did not make up the word, it was a mandate, everyone in Texas called it a mandate at the time, the executive order called it a requirement or mandatory. Here's an article about the “mandate” from 2007. If you do a google search (any search engine for that matter), you will find hundreds of articles that describe it as a “mandate”, you actually won't find an article that does not call it a “mandate” until the PerryKrishnas changed the history of what happened:
http://www.southernstudies.org/2007/05/texas-governor-defeated-on.html