[TigersEye]

My understanding is that any parent could opt out of having this for their child
under the Perry/Texas law so how can anyone continue to call it a "mandate?"

[mnehring]

It is also the easiest opt out in Texas. When registering kids for school, you get a list of vaccine requirements. With most you need a doctor or judge signature to opt out. With this you just need to sign an opt out form.

[bmwcyle]

The parents were not informed about the method to opt out. The procedure existed but they were pushed by the Perry admin to get the shot.

[HerrBlucher]

True, there was an opt out, but an opt in would have been wiser and less of a gov intrusion into peoples lives. Perry blew it on this one but he has admitted such. The gardisil issue though seems to have now morphed from “was it wise to mandate” to “was it corrupt to mandate.” Without evidence to support it other than Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, the latter is just a sleazy below the belt slam.

[thackney]

My understanding is that any parent could opt out of having this for their child under the Perry/Texas law so how can anyone continue to call it a “mandate?”

Correct.

RP65 – Relating to the immunization of young women from the cancer-causing Human Papillomavirus.
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/executive-order/3455/

Parents’ Rights. The Department of State Health Services will, in order to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children’s health care, modify the current process in order to allow parents to submit a request for a conscientious objection affidavit form via the Internet while maintaining privacy safeguards under current law.

[CodeToad]

“My understanding is that any parent could opt out of having this for their child
under the Perry/Texas law so how can anyone continue to call it a “mandate?””

Because you understood wrong. The opt out had to be by filling in a governemnt form, all things correct, filled out every two years, and many private schools refused to accept the opt-out program, placing parents of those schools in a pickle.

Sorry, but government tyranny that has an odd opt-out is still government tyranny.

[EDINVA]

“My understanding is that any parent could opt out of having this for their child under the Perry/Texas law so how can anyone continue to call it a “mandate?”

Because it suits their agenda.

[wilco200]

“My understanding is that any parent could opt out of having this for their child
under the Perry/Texas law so how can anyone continue to call it a “mandate?”

Another Perry apologist?

Since when are “conservatives” open to allowing the government to force us to “opt-out” of anything?

The government should stay the hell out of how we choose to live.