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Texas requires HPV vaccine for 11 year olds

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Well that didn’t take long.
Texas is the first state to mandate girls (11 – 12 years old) to get Garsasil, the Merck vaccine for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).

There’s data that suggests roughly 70% of all cervical cancers are caused by HPV.

The vaccine – which supposedly prevents HPV – has been on the market for quite a short time… a month or two. The cost is about $360.

Maybe the vaccine would dramatically lower cervical cancer.

Maybe it works – without extensive and serious side effects.
Maybe not.

People seem to believe if the FDA approves something, it’s safe.
They approved the Vioxx and the other Cox 2 inhibitors. And there’s a plenty others.

Semantically speaking, people associate vaccine with safe cure.
Not always.

People who get the HPV vaccine at this point are paying to be part of an experiment.

This vaccine has hardly proven itself with the test of time.

Why REQUIRE it now.
If a problem is discovered sometime in the future, can every affected girl/woman sue the state of Texas.

Reducing cancer is a good thing.

Why not ban all smoking. We know smoking is a cause of lung cancer.

HPV is sexually transmitted.
Not every 11 year old girl has sex.
Why should every one be forced to “test” this vaccine?
How come the parents can’t decide?

And… how the Texas Governor (Perry) completely by passed the legislature, went against the will of the Texas people who elected him and slammed this through?

Texans - fight back. Ask your doctor for an affidavit stating you object to the vaccine.

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