As Rick Perry said when he VETOED this nanny-state bill:
".....Texting while driving is reckless and irresponsible. I support measures that make our roads safer for everyone, but House Bill 242 is a government effort to micromanage the behavior of adults. Current law already prohibits drivers under the age of 18 from texting or using a cell phone while driving. I believe there is a distinction between the overreach of House Bill 242 and the government's legitimate role in establishing laws for teenage drivers who are more easily distracted and laws providing further protection to children in school zones......"
Oh, and the HPV shot was "opt-out."
You defend STATE ORDERED MEDICINE where the profits
went to Perry.
Perry is a fascist RINO who imposed poisons on children
who were chaste and did not need it.
You defend THAT?
I take the Gardasil adventure seriously, too, because I see it as a character flaw that can't fail to show up again: Rick got fat donations from Merck exactly around the time his program was announced. That looks especially bad in light of the fact that the spirit of it was against his general support for Texas liberty.
Perry had no coherent defense for what he tried to do. It was beyond Bloomberg in many ways, and the legislature was right to override him. I'm sorry I saw what I did. I love a lot of the quotes I see from him. But I can't unsee what I saw.
That is disingenuous.
I was fighting for my own daughter not to have to take this shot. The ONLY option I had was to get a *religious* exemption and not allow her to have *any* vaccines at all.
MY daughter has an immuno-deficiency. She is missing part of her immune system. We've had luck with traditional vaccines (which still don't work well with her body - she got measles after being fully vaccinated and the pneumonia vaccine didn't register. She had to get it again.)
With her weakened immune system, we didn't know how she would react to Gardisil. We don't have her vaccinated with anything that isn't tried and true and we don't expose her to anything that isn't necessary. (She's also vulnerable to autoimmune diseases and anything could set her off.)
Rick Perry's EXECUTIVE ORDER would make it impossible to manage my daughter's vaccines on a medical basis. It was an all-or-nothing situation.
My friend has a son who's allergic to eggs. There is NO opt-out option for this kid on a medical basis. In order for him to go to college, he had to vaccinated in the emergency room so they could deal with the anaphylactic shock. (The local schools were understanding and didn't push it when they got a note from the doctor, even though they were BREAKING STATE LAW by doing this.)
Oh and one more thing: My daughter received her last round of vaccines from the school nurse with no notification to me or permission from me. When I signed the normal 'going to school' paperwork, there was one allowing the school to administer emergency medical care to my daughter if she needed it. I was thinking that this meant that they'd apply pressure if she were bleeding out. In Texas, this also means that they can vaccinate her for anything without my express consent.
So don't tell me that there's an 'opt-out' option in Texas and do NOT imply that gardisil was optional.
Opt Out, is tyranny. Opt In is freedom, of choice. This nonsense was implemented in schools long ago, when the tyrants recognized that people would not take the trouble to Opt In, so they reasoned quite correctly that if they made the option an Opt Out, then few would exercise that option, therefore it becomes de-facto mandatory.