Posted on 02/23/2007 3:27:48 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A group of families has filed a lawsuit seeking to block Gov. Rick Perry's executive order requiring schoolgirls to be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
Kenneth Chaiken, the attorney representing the families, said his clients do not believe Perry had the legal authority to issue the order.
The lawsuit was filed in Travis County on Thursday.
Perry wants to require the vaccine for girls entering sixth grade. It protects against strands of human papapillomavirus, or HPV, that cause most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts.
Perry, a Republican, has defended the order as critical to saving lives. But it has inflamed conservatives who say it contradicts Texas' abstinence-only sexual education policies and intrudes into family lives.
The governor's order also upset many state lawmakers in his own party, and a bill to override the measure is moving through the state House.
Perry spokeswoman Krista Moody said the governor is confident he had the authority to issue the order.
``He sees this vaccine as not only a fiscally responsible order but also one that has the potential to save the lives of thousands of women in Texas,'' Moody said.
Does this mean that the drug company might want to get its money back if the ruling gets revoked?
I guess they'd rather have the cancer.
They'd rather have a choice.
Good little girls don't need it.
I don't think it should be mandatory.
People are comparing this to vaccines for polio and other diseases that are spread not by sex but by general functions of the body, breathing, coughing.
Now I have also heard and don't know how true it is that this virus(dormant) is in every girl/woman and that it can develope without it being "caught" If that is the case then I am open to changing my position on the matter.
this is exactly the point though isn't it???
There isn't enough information on the disease or the vaccine to allow the government or anyone else to make it mandatory.
What if this stuff sterilizes a whole generation of women?
We don't know yet that it won't!
This particular strain of cancer isn't at epidemic proportions anyway so why the big rush? MONEY of course.
"don't know how true it is that this virus(dormant) is in every girl/woman and that it can develope without it being "caught"
Whoever told you this is ignorant. You can't get an STD off a toilet seat. Period. HPV does not 'lay dormant' until morphing into cervical cancer. It is an active STD that may or may not become cancerous. HPV is commonly know as 'veneral warts' and can vanish without treatment, it's been said.
First of all, only 70% of the women who have the HPV will see it morph into cervical cancer. Secondly, the vaccine only blocks 2 of the 30 strains of HPV that MAY cause cervical cancer.
The press and Merck and the governor's office want you to think this is a cancer vaccine. It isn't. What about the 30% who won't be protected? And the potential side effects, which include loss of consciousness and seizure, bronchospasm and arthritis?
Do your homework. They all jumped the gun, that's all there is to it. $$$ in their eyes.
The Texas State Constitution does not give the Executive branch any powers to issue "executive orders". They do not exist in the document.
Should be a slam dunk.
Relax. I said I didn't know if it was true.
No homework to be done here as:
1)I don't live in Texas
and B) I don't have any daughters
And I am against mandatory vaccinations for this.
Thanks for playing!
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