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 don't like the sound of this at all!
we as parents should have the option not government regulation.

any links to any info on this, please post them here.

i agree jo.

they are trying to pass a simulare law hear in oklahoma as well. not agreeing with it at all. this needs between the dr and aprents not the schools.plus the vacciene is to new to know actual risk ina large population of young girls.

part of the article from this link:http://www.inciid.org/article.php?cat=cancer&id=433

Animal and human studies have shown that aluminum can cause nerve cell death [3] and that vaccine aluminum adjuvants can allow aluminum to enter the brain, [45] as well as cause inflammation at the injection site leading to chronic joint and muscle pain and fatigue. [67] Nearly 90 percent of Gardasil recipients and 85 percent of aluminum placebo recipients followed-up for safety reported one or more adverse events within 15 days of vaccination, particularly at the injection site.[8] Pain and swelling at injection site occurred in approximately 83 percent of Gardasil and 73 percent of aluminum placebo recipients.About 60 percent of those who got Gardasil or the aluminum placebo had systemic adverse events including headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, myalgia. [910] Gardasil recipients had more serious adverse events such as headache, gastroenteritis, appendicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, asthma, bronchospasm and arthritis.

"Merck and the FDA do not reveal in public documents exactly how many 9 to 15 year old girls were in the clinical trials, how many of them received hepatitis B vaccine and Gardasil simultaneously, and how many of them had serious adverse events after being injected with Gardasil or the aluminum placebo. For example, if there were less than 1,000 little girls actually injected with three doses of Gardasil, it is important to know how many had serious adverse events and how long they were followed for chronic health problems, such as juvenile arthritis."

According to the Merck product manufacturer insert, there was 1 case of juvenile arthritis, 2 cases of rheumatoid arthritis, 5 cases of arthritis, and 1 case of reactive arthritis out of 11,813 Gardasil recipients plus 1 case of lupus and 2 cases of arthritis out of 9,701 participants primarily receiving an aluminum containing placebo. Clinical trial investigators dismissed most of the 102 Gardasil and placebo associated serious adverse events, including 17 deaths, that occurred in the clinical trials as unrelated.