Texas Gov. orders anti-cancer vaccine (AP)
(From Yahoo) http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/...SOGRSqAcSFPw--AP - Bypassing the Legislature altogether, Republican Gov. Rick Perry issued an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.



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AUSTIN, Texas - Bypassing the Legislature altogether, Republican Gov. Rick Perry issued an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.

By employing an executive order, Perry sidestepped opposition in the Legislature from conservatives and parents' rights groups who fear such a requirement would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way Texans raise their children.

Beginning in September 2008, girls entering the sixth grade — meaning, generally, girls ages 11 and 12 — will have to receive Gardasil, Merck & Co.'s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV.
Perry also directed state health authorities to make the vaccine available free to girls 9 to 18 who are uninsured or whose insurance does not cover vaccines. In addition, he ordered that Medicaid offer Gardasil to women ages 19 to 21.

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 us with an incredible opportunity to effectively target and prevent cervical cancer," Perry said.

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 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.
The governor also received $6,000 from Merck's political action committee during his re-election campaign.

OH NO!!!!

maybe someone ought to send him this info
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=7215

!!!!!!!!!

We have a senator in our state of Illinois trying to make it a mandatory immunization for girls going into the 6th grade also.

I don't think so!!!!

i am going to fight this tooth and nail.

from local government to state. pta...school board...get everyone i know to learn the facts.

i hope the senator there doesn't know the govenor here tracey...this stinks and really ticks me off.

I have a real BAD FEELING about this too. Everyone is moving TOO FAST to embrace this drug.

How many times in the past five years have we heard of drugs being pulled because of deadly side effects??

Have they tested the LIFETIME side effects of this drug?? NO!! And, they want to give it to our kids. Do they know how this drug interacts with the male reproductive system when it interacts with the female system?? Do they know what will be passed to children of Mothers who use this drug??

In the 1950s, they gave drugs to Mothers to prevent premature labor. That drug is still causing reproductive problems for children (male and female) who were exposed in utero to that drug.

In the 1960s, they gave thalidomide (a sleeping pill) to pregnant Mothers. It caused horrendous birth anomalies to the arms and legs of children exposed in utero.

I hope every parent says **NO** to this crap.

Barb

Amen Barb. I agree they move way tooo fast when it comes to the vaccines and meds. It won't be given to my daughter I know that for 100% fact. With Megs it won't be a problem, her doc will agree with my decision. But what about all the other girls her age? Sad really sad. Sometimes I wonder if we live in a free democratic country or a communist one. I have to wear a seatbelt because someone decided it was for my best interest. I agree if you are under 18 then it is my duty to see my children are restrained, but as an adult of sound mind if I prefer to not wear it, it should be my choice not the governments. (I am a seatbelt person anyhoo, it is just the principal), Just like a state who says you can't smoke in your car????? Again, unless that state is going to take over my car payments and insurance, they can't tell me I can't smoke inside my vehicle. Again not a smoker but think it is totally wrong. What is next???? Just seems like the government is able to rule our lives a little too much. Oh well I could go on and on.

Curious send me all the info on this immunization also that you find, I want to keep it on file if it becomes a "law" here for other parents also
Thanks

I think it's a great idea. A way to prevent cancer?! And STDs? isn't it like requiring any other vaccination for a communicable disease that could cause an epidemic?

i don't agree at all.

this is another vaccine thast they are using females as the testing grounds. will they pull it after they find out it has caused thousands of birth deffects? or how many have to suffer serious illness and side effects?

why is it they don't give a vaccine to young males? since they are the cause of the spread of the virus inthe first place. a vaccine so they are impotent and can't have sex until they are mature enough to use a condom. why not do the reaserch and come up with a vaccine to prevent the boys from getting and spreading the virus?

by making it mandetory that all these young girls have the vaccine, govenor perry is assuming that all these girls will become sexually active and not use protection.

in all of the studies i have found so far that state the 4000 deaths due to cervical cancer, not one has has sited any research as to how many of those deaths are due to the virus being the cause of the cancer. how many of those deaths were caused by the woman not getting a pap on a ruetine basis.

the media and Merck are using scare tactic to coerce parents into vaccinating their young daughters. they are giving the full truth so an informed choice can be made.

mollymcn....perhaps you havent read the links I posted on the DANGERS of the actual vaccine, and it's potential to cause neurological problems in these young girls


Curious, tho I know you posted about this "lobbyist" on page one
thought you would be interested in this that came in with one of my Health Newsletters today ( I have bolded FYI)

mollymcm, also if you listen to the commercial and read info it is not a guarantee that it will eliminate a young girl from getting cervical cancer. I still think it is still in the very premature stages, and no government should dictate that young girls get this vaccine, not knowing how it will effect their overall health including fertilization etc later in life. I agree it would be nice to have a "magic cure" against cervical cancer. I just don't belive that this is it, nor have they done a long enough long term studies. 17 deaths during trial to me is 17 too many, whether the vaccine maker says it is related to it or not. Like they are going to say that their vaccine (money maker) is going to possibly be fatal to anyone. I guess it just erks me to think that a governor or someone else thinks they have the right to tell us as parents that we have to immunize our daughters, to me that is just wrong! Way too much governmental control for me. All I know is my daughter WONT get this shot period!!!!