Bachmann insists the vaccine is “a very dangerous drug.” After the debate, she reported, she met a woman whose daughter developed mental retardation in reaction to the shot.Would she believe someone who told her the vaccine came from space aliens?
Read about some young girls who had reactions to Gardasil here (they’re heart wrenching and some could easily be confused with mental retardation):
http://www.nvic.org/Vaccines-and-Diseases/hpv.aspx
Please note this is from an advocacy group, acting on reports they had received. Here are more links, some with outside references within the articles.
My question is, did she tell the truth about the crying woman who told her this? If so, then she's vindicated on just about everything (IMHO). If not...
They could get the same result through the compulsory feeding of saltpetre to all boys under the age of 8. But somehow I doubt if that would catch on.
Gardisil Retards for Bachman!
Just kidding folks. Don’t flame me.
With that said Perry is still right regarding the benefits of Gardasil inoculations.
I’m sorry but Bachmann is a hypocrite.
In her state Heb B Vaccine is mandated with NO opt out.
Yet:
The hepatitis B vaccine has been linked to immunological and neurological disorders.
By Ben Howe, Red State
What’s worse than a mandatory vaccination that never actually came to law and, even if it had, contained an opt-out? According to Michele Bachmann, nothing. In fact, if you listen to Michele Bachmann these days, you’d think Governor Perry was strapping 12 year old children to tables to inject them when he takes breaks from using the other needle on inmates..................
By all appearances, she felt no need to mention, much less work towards stopping, a vaccination that, by her own standards, is an assault on liberty.
Even more so actually. The HPV vaccination, while called mandatory, made available an opt-out provision so that the parental rights that she felt were so paramount could be protected in this decision.
The Hepatitis B vaccination in Minnesota (state law since 1993) doesn’t even require parental consent at all. And Hep B’s communicability is similar to HPV in that it is primarily transmitted through intercourse, as opposed to being an airborne illness.
Currently, no records can be found of Michele Bachmann sponsoring legislation in the Minnesota legislature to repeal the Hep B vaccination or to add a parental opt-out.
There have been people who have died on the operating table while having tonsils removed - does that mean we should no longer allow it, or worse yet, begin a class action suit to seek damages from all surgeons who have removed tonsils.
I once nearly died of anaphylactic shock following a penecilin dose. Do I think we need to not allow antibiotics to be administered? Not in a million years.
If Bachmann would have made that case I'd be totally fine with her.
But if I become convinced (and I'm getting close) that she's pandering to the anti-vaccinations-in-general moonbat fringe, she's permanently off my list.
Bachmann’s Vaccine lie.
Look Newbie, Ms. Bachmann is RIGHT.
Rick Perry was acting as a RINO
while he was the Merck-Mandator for Texas.
Rep Bachmann needs to drop this issue. Enough.
See THIS! Heads are going to explode!
This video is not for the faint of heart
The girl in that video even DIED shortly after this video was taken!
because some unnamed person told her that a child became retarded as a result
she did more to label herself as an "illogical, emotionally driven woman" than any "Perry-bot" could ever have dreamed of doing.
This sorry episode is just one more illustration of the foolishness of believing unsubstantiated anecdotes, especially related to the so-called evils of modern medicine.
Anybody with a crap attitude can say anything she wants at a rally or on a blog, but that doesn't make it worth the time of day.
“A vaccine for cancer would be a triumph for public health. Did I say “would be”? Actually, it is. Such a vaccine exists for one of the biggest killers of women. But Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is against it, and she’s not alone.”
I am pretty sure that Bachmann isn’t against the vaccine. She is against it being forced on children; something I agree with. Her “mistake” was using a “hearsay” information as factual (the reference to it causing retardation). That wasn’t wise.
At least in the past, FR posters have screamed bloody murder about “nanny state” policies that trample on personal liberties. It would seem to me, that although she went too far, her basic arguement is against “Nanny-State” vaccinations on something that isn’t an immediate threat to life and limb. You don’t force (or coerce) someone to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that they “may” become exposed to later in life, that “may” if they are exposed, cause cervical cancer. This has “Nanny-State” written all over it. I remember how Mike Huckabee was pillored here in 2008 for being a “Nanny-State” governor....why should Perry get a pass????
Also, IF we are going to follow the line of logic in this article, then we should completely ban Tobacco and Alcholic beverages. How may deaths by cancer could be stopped by the end of tobacco use???? How may deaths could be avoided by an alcohol free country???? Quite a few actually...many more than would be lost to cervical cancer. However, I think MOST here would be livid over such a ban....so very “Nanny-State.” Not to mention the stomping on personal liberties.
And why stop there???? Let us begin mandatory testing of all teens for venerial disease??? Then force those testing positive to undergo treatment. Wouldn’t this save lives????
You see, it sounds logical to say vaccinations of ALL preteen girls will stop cervical cancer....but it is a dangerous path to tread if you don’t want to open yourself ut to endless “Nanny-State” initiatives.
I think the vaccine has merit, but it must be totally voluntary. And there must be NO reprecussions for those that don’t chose to be vaccinated or parents those chose not to vaccinate their daugters.
The forum is rife with those that what LESS GOVERNMENT. That is what Bachmann is really saying....although poorly.
Michele Bachmann is a decent conservative woman. Her views are generally in concert with most FR members.
But, as I’ve noted on numerous occasions, she is not ready for prime time. Her biggest problem is her inability to come out on top in interviews, the Leno example being the latest (failure to take the offensive). Her second biggest problem is that she is one dimensional - “one term President”, “repeal ObamaCare”, “25 kids”, “tax lawyer” are repeated ad infinitum.
Of course she smoked Perry on the Gardasil business during the debate, but like him, she had to add an anecdote about the non-verified or verifiable child with adverse reactions. Santorum hopped on her lead but he stayed on track. Perry screwed that answer and the wetback answer up big time.
I feel sad for Bachmann because she stands tall for conservative values, but she would get clobbered in this mediacentric political world.
If he continues on his current path, Perry is not far behind. His debate performance to date has been close to abysmal.