**EDUCATE DONT VACCINATE ??Why does Texas Medicate??
Texas Governor Issues Executive Order Requiring Anti-Cancer Vaccine for Schoolgirls
Friday, February 02, 2007
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry signed an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
By issuing an executive order, Perry apparently sidesteps opposition in the Legislature from conservatives and parents' rights groups who fear such a requirement would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way parents raise their children.
Beginning in September 2008, girls entering the sixth grade will have to get Gardasail, Merck & Co.'s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV.
Perry, a conservative Christian who opposes abortion and stem-cell research using embryonic cells, counts on the religious right for his political base. But he has said the cervical cancer vaccine is no different from the one that protects children against polio.
"The HPV vaccine provides with with an incredible opportunity to effectively target and prevent cervical cancer," Perry said in announcing the order.
Merck is bankrolling efforts to pass state laws across the country mandating Gardasil for girls as young as 11 or 12. It doubled its lobbying budget in Texas and has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country.
Perry has several ties to Merck and Women in Government. One of the drug company's three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, Perry's former chief of staff. His current chief of staff's mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi, is a state director for Women in Government.
Perry also received $6,000 from Merck's political action committee during his re-election campaign.
Parents can have their daughters opt out of the inoculations by filing an objection on religious or other philosophical grounds. Even with such provisions, however, conservative groups say such requirements interfere with parents' rights to make medical decisions for their children.
The federal government approved Gardasil in June, and a government advisory panel has recommended that all girls get the shots at 11 and 12, before they are likely to be sexually active.
The vaccine is too new to know how long protection will last, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Studies have followed women for five years and found that they are still protected. More research is being done to find out how long protection will last, and if a booster vaccine is needed years later.
That uncertainty adds to conservatives' oppositon.
The New Jersey-based drug company could generate billions in sales if Gardasil — at $360 for the three-shot regimen — were made mandatory across the country. Most insurance companies now cover the vaccine, which has been shown to have no serious side effects.
Merck spokeswoman Janet Skidmore would not say how much the company is spending on lobbyists or how much it has donated to Women in Government. Susan Crosby, the group's president, also declined to specify how much the drug company gave.
A top official from Merck's vaccine division sits on Women in Government's business council, and many of the bills around the country have been introduced by members of Women in Government.
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My view:
The drug companies are out of control.. politicians are out of control. TEXAS is out of control - they have interfered with families too much, and now MANDATING a vaccine that's new, barely tested, OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT GUINEA PIGS!
Vaccinations that are required should ONLY be for those which are COMMUNICABLE diseases, spread through casual contact, airborn viruses, not sexually transmitted diseases!!
STD vaccinations given to our children???
Where's the morals? Values? Privacy? Rights? Parents can opt out on religeous and philisophical grounds - what about THESE ARE OUR CHILDREN NOT THE GOVERNMENTS TEST SUBJECTS TO MAKE DRUG COMPANIES RICH?
Put that money and resources towards teaching our children safe sex WHEN THEY BECOME SEXUALLY ACTIVE!!! If they do not GET the virus because they are SAFE using CONDOMS and/or ABSTINENCE and MONOGOMY, then they won't get cervical cancer from HPV!!!
EDUCATE Don't VACCINATE!
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2 comments:
Well, this is a topic that seems so very obvious yet the more I listen to people the more concerned I get.
Let's look at one really important thing here. This is not law. Perry did not introduce and pass a bill nor did he sign a law. He signed a mandate, and executive order, which is being followed up by the moronic local news as 'mandatory.' The news seems to be spinning this, for whatever reason, as something every parent is legally required to put their daughter through. This spin is pure fiction.
This is not the case in reality. All vaccinations are voluntary no matter how intense the propoganda is. There is NO LAW in this state that requires any parent to inject their child with anything.
It's a mandate. Overall in legal terms mandate means 'State recommended and approved.' The act still remains the choice of the parent.
Now, I have 3 God children (4 as of mid-march). The first one received all kinds of vaccinations before he left the hospital after being born becuase his parents and his God Father didn't know any better. Now we do and the other two have not received one shot and neither will the next one.
When the schools pressure them by saying the kids cannot attend classes without their shots we have the paper work that says they can. Any parent can opt-out of injecting their child[ren] with this mystery government cocktail.
An Executive Order is not law. A mandate is not law. Neither are enforcable to Citizens of the United States under constitutional law. Period.
Case closed. Next.
tom b.
http://www.myspace.com/tomb73
Okay, so lets get this straight, its one of those things that if a parent KNOWS they have the right to opt out, they can do so, but they aren't gonna know unless they take the initiative to find out? In other words, the govt is going to do this, saying "Well, they CAN opt out"... (whispering "we just aren't going to go out of our way to let them know that")
The reason behind my intense anger at the onset of reading this, is Texas' recent drugging of the foster children with psychotropics... I know from personal experience that these traumatized children are taken into foster care and drugged up, experimented on, diagnosed with all kinds of rubber-stamped psychological problems that are improperly diagnosed, and then they are released when their time is up and taken off these drugs.
I began researching these FSU Case No.'s I was finding in the case files of CPS cases, wondering "What the hell is FSU stand for?" ... I began to find, upon digging very very very very deeply, programs under HHS with former soviet union scientists using foster children as guinea pigs for human subject research; of course the law states that any human research subjects must give informed consent, but as foster children, the govt is entitled to give that consent... loophole!
It was very difficult to find ANYTHING on that, but to have reference in a child's case file from CPS to an FSU report # filing, as a child's parent I'd want to know what the hell that is.
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