I for one don’t trust the FDA.Beyond the fact that there is evidence that this drug could be dangerous is the fact that a the executive order was used to push this through. It is forced on the parents to get there children this vaccine. Which there seems to be evidence it is dangerous. I know there was an opt-out. I’m sure many parents did know that was an option. Why not make it opt-in instead? I just think this whole thing is an overreach of government. Im sure many evangelical Christians will agree with me that a vaccine for there 12 year old for a disease that is transmitted sexually is a no go! Perry apparently does not understand this
This Catholic agrees, too. BTW, how dare you criticize government overreach on a site entitled Free Republic! Thanks for all the information you posted.
From the minute the vaccine was available to the general public it was an opt-in. You could take your kid to the doctor and get them vaccinated. Not a damn thing to stop anyone except that the most at risk girls have the crappiest parent who wouldn't spend the money for the vaccine.
The very idea of a mandated opt-in isn't logical.
People are looking at the situation NOW and saying, "There have been 50 million doses given and it is, largely, safe."
But when Perry signed the order the vaccine had only been tested on (I believe) about 8,000 girls/women. If I remember correctly, there were very few test subjects in the 12 YO range.
Look at all the drug recalls. It seems like a big new drug is pulled off the shelves about once a year. The FDA can mandate all the testing that it wants to, but the BIG test comes when the drug is released to the general public.
At the time we didn't know. Many of us parents felt like Perry was experimenting on our daughters and it was terrifying. Those of us who have daughters that are already immuno-compromised were really scared.
As far as the opt out situation goes: NOW there is a medical exemption for girls like my daughter with known problems, but back then there was no way to do it. Heck, even now, the way the exemption is phrased, there's no way for a parent to opt their child out of one vaccine and still give them vaccines that they know are safe. It's an all-or-nothing proposition. (So I can't opt my daughter out of Gardasil and still get her MMR.)
People who say that this is much ado about nothing are forgetting what we (and Perry) knew about Gardasil when he signed that order.