Perry Sued Over HPV Vaccine Order
Vince Leibowitz | Feb 23, 2007 | Comments 0
Via Courthouse News:
Parents of three girls have sued Gov. Rick Perry to protect their daughters from inoculation with a vaccine against human papilloma virus, which causes cervical cancer. The John Doe parents claims Perry signed an illegal executive order that requires girls in sixth grade and above to be vaccinated before they can enroll in public school. Perry’s Feb. 2 order caused a furor among conservatives, some of whom say that inoculating girls against the sexually transmitted virus will encourage them to have sex. Critics also say the order violates the state’s “abstinence only†sex education policy. And they claim Perry was influenced by a $5,000 political donation from Merck, which makes the vaccine. And they claim the governor does not have authority to issue such an order, bypassing the Legislature.
I expect this to end the same way the coal plant executive order lawsuit did.
More as it develops.
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usurped the Legislature’s authority while the Legislature was actually in session. Of course, Perry’s waxing poetic about fighting cancer just seemed like another episode in the pay-to-play culture of his administration when it came to light thathe’d taken money from Merck before mandating the use of Gardasil in Texas. The Legislature ultimately overrode his executive order. Source: The Top Ten Awesomely Bad Moments Of The Perry Administration – Capitol Annex I’ve got news for the wingnuts out there: teens aren’t skipping out on sex because
