Gov Perry's HPV vaccination order angers pro-family group

GOPUSA ^ | February 6, 2007 | By Jim Brown AgapePress

[perseid 67]

Then allow parents to vaccinate their older girls against this std.

Also, I do not believe this vaccine is well tested. It has only been tested once.

Someone is using big money to buy the bodies of many young girls to save a few girls/women. I suspect selfish motives.

Perry is a pimp.

[lqclamar]

It may be time to start talking recall election to get Perry to understand how much people are against his vaccination mandate.

How about impeachment? It is my understanding that Texas allows impeachment of its governor at the legislature's discretion, and that it is a very wide discretion. Plus you'd do all the rest of us a favor by ending this guy's political career - he wants the VP nod in 2008.

[lqclamar]

Teenagers are the most likely to contract HPV.

No. Sexually promiscuous people are the most likely to contract it.

The chance of HPV-related cervical cancer increases dramatically for people who engage in risky sexual lifestyles. According to the American Cancer Society, the risk of getting cervical cancer from HPV increases dramatically for people who have HIV, take birth control pills over the long term, take hormone treatments, or have other STDs like Chlamydia.

The chance of a non-promiscuous person getting HPV is minimal, and getting cervical cancer it is next to nil.

[lqclamar]

HCRP Chairman Asks Governor Perry to Rescind HPV Executive Order

How polite of him to "ask." Unfortunately I'm afraid this is gonna take a lot more than asking to rescind. A governor who circumvents the legislature and goes behind the backs of the public to cram this thing through by executive order isn't going to change because somebody politely asks him to. This will take a bill from the legislature rescinding his order.

[Hydroshock]

I am to the point with Gov Goodhair that I am beginning to think a bill of Impeachment is in order.

[lqclamar]

I am to the point with Gov Goodhair that I am beginning to think a bill of Impeachment is in order.

Call your state delegate about it now. I don't know much about the procedure, but what I read after a couple quick google searches suggests that they have very wide impeachment discretion in Texas. You'll also be doing the rest of us a favor by taking him out of the pool of prospective veeps in 2008. Perry has indicated he wants to be Vice President.

[elc]

Hey, that brings up a good question (in my mind) - what about girls who are in the foster system? If there is no one to opt out for them, are the SOL, and getting the shot?

[Hydroshock]

I was listening to Senator Dan Patrick's radio show yesterday and they discussed it.

[lqclamar]

Is this senator willing to consider it? Impeachment usually has to start in the House, so he needs to find a Delegate who will sponsor it there.

[Hydroshock]

I doubt it.

[ConservaTexan]

In all of the many studies conducted, there has yet to be a SINGLE serious adverse reaction. You could inject people with salt water and still occasionally get a serious adverse reaction -- not only is the HPV vaccine safe, but it astonishingly safe.

That sounds alarmingly similar to what Merck & Co., Inc. was saying about VIOXX, right up until they voluntarily pulled it off the market and started getting their butt sued off.

[Alter Kaker]

Hahahaha -- only "promiscuous" people take birth control over the long term? What planet are you living on?

[luckystarmom]

Smoking also increases the risk of cervical cancer.

[lqclamar]

Hahahaha -- only "promiscuous" people take birth control over the long term?

No. But long term use of birth control IS more likely among promiscuous take than those who are not since they are also at a higher risk of unwanted pregnancies. Promiscuous people are also more likely to buy condoms than non-promiscuous people, although both do buy them.

[lqclamar]

Smoking increases the risk of most forms of cancer in general. But a person who is only a smoker is at less risk of getting cervical cancer than a person who smokes, has HIV, has Chlamydia, and uses birth control frequently.

[Alter Kaker]

Smoking also increases the risk of cervical cancer.

Smoking increases the chances that a woman with HPV will develop cervical cancer. But smoking will not give a woman without HPV cervical cancer.

[Alter Kaker]

If you say so. Seems you're making a lot of unfounded assumptions.

[luckystarmom]

You are correct.

[lqclamar]

If you say so. Seems you're making a lot of unfounded assumptions

So you think the American Cancer Society makes unfounded assumptions?

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_2_2X_What_causes_cancer_of_the_cervix_Can_it_be_prevented_8.asp?sitearea

[retMD]

That sounds alarmingly similar to what Merck & Co., Inc. was saying about VIOXX, right up until they voluntarily pulled it off the market and started getting their butt sued off.

Actually, there were concerns about Vioxx and Celebrex way before Vioxx was pulled off the market. There were studies that suggested higher incidences of MI at least 2 or 3 years earlier for that class of drugs.

The problem I saw with Vioxx and other drugs in the same class was not that they were intrinsically bad drugs, but that they were marketed generally when they really were only appropriate for specific people. (You can make the comparison to Gardasil, but the current reports on Gardasil show it much safer than Vioxx.)