Rick Perry and Gardasil

[The Rabbi]

The Texas Legislature later overturned his Executive Order. At the time, social conservatives were NOT happy, saying that the vaccine would definitely encourage sexual promiscuity among teenagers. Perry maintains that the shot is important in potentially preventing cervical cancer.

Profound ignorance, typical of he social right.

Teenagers need no ‘encouragement’ with regard to ‘sexual promiscuity.’

Otherwise, Perry’s EO was a rare example of intelligence and responsible governance, a decision predicated on facts, not dogma – very ‘un-conservative-like.’

And he’ll be crucified by the right accordingly.

As well he should be over this issue because it is exactly the kind of nanny-statism that conservatives hate.
It doesn't matter that it is a good idea or helpful. It should be up to the individual to decide.
But I can give Perry a pass on this because unlike msot posters here, on both sides, I don't make my mind up based on one issue.

 

[Sunshine]

I think you are an erudite, scholarly woman of the health field, and I am honored to be posting on the same board, Sunshine. Thank you for your mercy and wisdom when you speak about this insidious disease that lurks like a vicious vampire in carrier epithelial as well as corporal cells, but reinforces all we know about trying to do the right thing. I feel we are all better persons when we see this particular olive-branch post of yours.

Thanks! For a moment, I looked behind me to see who you might be talking to! LOL

What most don't realize is that most of our benevolence arises from self interest. If we do not provide public health services, then we risk our own becoming infected. If we do not help those who are homeless and have no food, then we deal with far more dangerous behaviors from them. The devastation of disease, homelessness, and hunger affects us all. These issues are not right/left issues. They are American issues.

Yes they are. And if a leader fails to deal with them, he is history at the next poll. None of us wants to be taxed to death, and if all children born were darling angels and never made any mistakes and grew into perfectly wise adults, we wouldn't be. Oh, they had it right in the bible when they called us "children". Even when we're adults, most of us are still not mature in one area or another. Kholberg's theory of moral development nails it best, imho. Not many people make it to the higher levels on his scale. You're nearer the top than you may know.

Moral Development - Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development

I see he based his theory strongly on Piaget. I do like Piaget.

 

[candycorn]

Basically he wanted to force all girls going into the 6th grade to get an injection. The government forcing Gardasil onto your teenaged daughters....

February 5, 2007
Texas Becomes First State to Require HPV Vaccine

Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) on Friday issued an executive order that made Texas the first state to require girls entering the sixth grade to receive the HPV vaccine, beginning in September 2008. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gardasil, a vaccine that prevents several strands of the sexually transmitted disease human papillomavirus (HPV), in June 2006. Gardasil is approved for women ages nine-26 to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18.

Though Governor Perry is known as a social conservative, his press secretary, Robert Black, told The Dallas Morning News, "He came to the conclusion it was the right thing to do. You don't have opportunities like this where you can certainly prevent a cancer. It�s never happened before, so it would be irresponsible to walk away from it."

Texas has the second highest number of women with cervical cancer in the country, the New York Times reports. Governor Perry pointed out in his executive order that there were 1,169 new cases and 391 deaths from cervical cancer in Texas in 2006.
Media Resources: Dallas Morning News 2/3/07; Executive Order RP65 2/2/07; New York Times 2/3/07

Feminist Daily News 2/5/2007: Texas Becomes First State to Require HPV Vaccine

Sometimes it's a good idea in the diseases are easily communicable such as chicken pox etc... Gardasil is for STDs... Not so easily transmitted.

I wonder how the GOP base and tea partiers will react when they see Perry up-close.

"Should we have talked to the legislature first? Probably so?" Way to go Rick. Nice to hear Santorum get his licks in too.

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