Some other guy named Charles once said that "people die every day." It still doesn't help me understand.
The issue is freedom. Yes, Perry had an opt out. But it's backwards. To opt out, you have to know you can opt out. There is no mandatory education supplied with the mandatory shot to say that you could die or be permanently disabled, and that you have the right to refuse government medical treatment. This should be the Nuremberg version of Miranda rights.
Y'all want to believe the government spin on the shots, fine. I won't prevent you from getting them. I'll even go along with the gov funding shots deemed critical for national health even though I don't believe a word of it regarding earlier epidemics like polio.
I must have the right to hear the physicians who point out the fraud of government medicine, and to exercise the right to refuse treatment for me and my children. I must have the right to exercise my conscience when some Dracula types murder an unborn baby and grow viruses in its flesh. That's how the polio vaccine began; they got the Nobel prize for growing the virus in murdered baby flesh. Will I, under PerryCare, have the right to refuse to inject murdered baby pus into me and my children?
Bachmann did a good thing pointing this out. ObamaCare is leading us down to the road to forced care and death panels. While I'll vote for Perry if he is the nominee, I'd like the issue of forced or coerced medical treatment aired out before the election.
Why do you think that? It's been a while since I had to get vaccines for my kids, but we had to sign consent forms, that were quite detailed in the risks associated with the vaccines.
On the other hand, there is no mandatory understanding clause, and I imagine a lot of parents just sign the forms. IF the doctor is giving the vaccine, they assume the doctor thinks it is safe. How would a parent know more than a trained medical professional?