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Perry: executive order requiring young girls to be vaccinated against HPV wasn't mandatory
PolitiFact Check ^ | January 29, 2010

Posted on 06/19/2011 1:02:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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I rate this Truth-O-Meter misleading and spun to hurt Rick Perry.

Take time to read the article so you can judge for yourself.

The "true-o-meter" conclusion rests on too much conjecture for me.

I understand the HPV vaccine program was always an "opt-out" program.

1 posted on 06/19/2011 1:02:06 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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An “optional vaccination requirement”...

An optional requirement? Is that like dry wetness?

He signed the executive order, and now he wants to backpedal.

This man does not deserve our votes.


2 posted on 06/19/2011 1:09:51 AM PDT by PastorBooks
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I sincerely hope and pray that Governor Perry will admit he was mistaken in his judgment on this issue. He truly was. The Vaccine itself was not fully proven. And, add to it the ties his staff had to Merck?


3 posted on 06/19/2011 1:11:48 AM PDT by indianrightwinger
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Explain where the above posted article supports your position.


4 posted on 06/19/2011 1:13:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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I am just as bothered by his “stance”.

But, could you please educate me on which politician deserves your vote based on the criteria you set regarding “backpedaling”?


5 posted on 06/19/2011 1:13:46 AM PDT by indianrightwinger
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....And, add to it the ties his staff had to Merck?

That has been brought up.

Please help me explain to the thread what was illegal.

Was anyone brought up on charges or was nothing illegal involved?

6 posted on 06/19/2011 1:15:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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....And, add to it the ties his staff had to Merck?

That has been brought up.

Please help me explain to the thread what was illegal.

Was anyone brought up on charges or was nothing illegal involved?

7 posted on 06/19/2011 1:15:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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At the least it does not look like Perry researched the ramifications of his action very well, and it’s ironic that the schools at which the most trouble with this ethically and morally problematic vaccine would have arisen were private institutions which are often religious. Why didn’t Perry bring all this up when the initial brouhaha arose?


8 posted on 06/19/2011 1:17:16 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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I am not making an arugment about illegality. It is a simple matter of poor judgment.

Hope that Governor Perry would just say so and this issue will disappear.


9 posted on 06/19/2011 1:18:32 AM PDT by indianrightwinger
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...Why didn’t Perry bring all this up when the initial brouhaha arose?

Obviously it was.

10 posted on 06/19/2011 1:18:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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“Perry ordered the Department of State Health Services to allow parents dissenting for philosophical or religious reasons to request a conscientious objection affidavit form. That form, which has been available since 2003, enables parents to enroll their children in public school even if they lack state-required immunizations. It’s automatically granted as long as parents provide all required information.”

Why should the parents have to go through this trouble? The govt. should have to jump hoops, not the parents.

I’ve read that the vaccine was for girls as young as nine years of age.


11 posted on 06/19/2011 1:20:50 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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The funny thing about Rick is that at first glance at a press photo I can’t tell him from Mitt-happens until I study it for a second.


12 posted on 06/19/2011 1:21:46 AM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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Can’t vouch for the source — but fwiw:

Feb 23, 2011: “Gov. Rick Perry is apparently fed up with questions surrounding his executive order requiring Texan pre-teen girls to be vaccinated for human pappilomavirus, a variety of viruses that cause most cases of cervical cancer: On Thursday, pressed with questions about the mandate while trying to promote a plan to sell the state lottery and use the proceeds to fund cancer research, Perry snapped at reporters. “I wish you all would quit splitting hairs, frankly, and get focused on are we going to be working together to find the cure for cancers,” he said when asked when he decided to issue the executive order. “No, I can’t tell you when.”

The vaccination order has drawn fire from several angles from day one: some opponents say it would encourage young girls to be sexually active, others wonder about the safety of the relatively new Gardasil vaccine and some have questioned Perry’s ties with Merck, the vaccine’s maker: Perry’s former chief of staff lobbies for Merck, and AP-obtained records show that Perry’s staff was meeting with Merck representatives for months before the company donated thousands of dollars to the governor’s re-election campaign last year. Merck has been lobbying state governments to require the Gardasil vaccine for young women — it stopped earlier this week — but Perry spokesman Robert Black said the meetings last year were about the possibility of providing the vaccine to women on Medicaid. “There was no discussion of any kind of mandates,” Black told the AP. Perry pointed out that the $5,000 his campaign received from Merck was a fraction of the $24 million he raised, but observers said the amount isn’t the problem. “Whoever’s setting up that meeting, they ought to be chewed out, you know, for not looking at everything and saying, ‘Now wait a minute, could this cause any questions down the road?” said state Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R-Rockwall).

Perry told reporters yesterday that the possibility of preventing cervical cancer in some women was his main goal in issuing the order earlier this month. “When a company comes to me and says we have a cure for cancer, for me not to say, ‘Please come into my office and let’s hear your story for the people of the state of Texas, for young ladies who are dying of cancer,’ would be the height of irresponsibility,” he said. “Whether or not they contributed to my campaign, I would suggest to you, are some of those weeds that we are trying to cut our way through.” On Wednesday, a state House committee OK’d a bill that would rescind the vaccination order; a similar bill is in committee in the Senate. Perry said he’s not sure whether he would veto the legislation if it reached his desk: “I highly respect the legislative process that we have, and so I would respectfully tell you that we will let it play its way out.” [end text]

http://houstonist.com/2007/02/23/perry_to_world.php


13 posted on 06/19/2011 1:24:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Perry's the one with Sarah Palin:


14 posted on 06/19/2011 1:26:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Sun
Genital HPV Infection - Fact Sheet
15 posted on 06/19/2011 1:29:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Was anyone brought up on charges or was nothing illegal involved?

There's illegal, and then there is unethical, and just plain stinking.
16 posted on 06/19/2011 1:29:45 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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I understand the HPV vaccine program was always an "opt-out" program.

Americans shouldn't be required to "opt out" of something as draconian as forced vaccinations for minor children.

Being given the opportunity to opt in would be the American way.

Rick Perry got it wrong, and all the back-peddling and double talk in the world can't change that.

17 posted on 06/19/2011 1:30:03 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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Perry told reporters yesterday that the possibility of preventing cervical cancer in some women was his main goal in issuing the order earlier this month. “When a company comes to me and says we have a cure for cancer, for me not to say, ‘Please come into my office and let’s hear your story for the people of the state of Texas, for young ladies who are dying of cancer,’ would be the height of irresponsibility,” he said. “Whether or not they contributed to my campaign, I would suggest to you, are some of those weeds that we are trying to cut our way through.” On Wednesday, a state House committee OK’d a bill that would rescind the vaccination order; a similar bill is in committee in the Senate. Perry said he’s not sure whether he would veto the legislation if it reached his desk: “I highly respect the legislative process that we have, and so I would respectfully tell you that we will let it play its way out.” [end text]

And none of this takes away the stink of Perry using the power of Big-Government to push something that was for a disease that, for the more part as I understand it, is contracted by girls/women who are sexually active.
18 posted on 06/19/2011 1:32:22 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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Sorry, Perry is either a ruling elite statist issuing orders, or too stupid to make sure it doesn't look that way.

Big screw up for those who believe in small government, liberty, and parental rights.

19 posted on 06/19/2011 1:34:33 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
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One of the biggest issues brought up in this article for me is that he called an executive order legislation.


20 posted on 06/19/2011 1:34:55 AM PDT by MacMattico
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