Perry explains motivation
MySA.com: Vaccine fight is personal for Perry
AUSTIN — His crusade against cancer, including a controversial order to vaccinate schoolgirls against a virus linked to cervical cancer, is partly personal, Gov. Rick Perry revealed Thursday.Several of his family members have been stricken with one form or another of the disease, Perry said. His father had prostate cancer, his mother, colon cancer and his sister, bladder cancer. All now are in remission.
“Every generation of Perrys, back to the 1850s, has died of prostate cancer. I’m going to get it,” Perry said.
His comments came just a few days before the House Public Health Committee holds a public hearing Monday on the governor’s executive order that sixth-grade girls, beginning next year, be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, or HPV. The committee is expected to approve legislation to rescind his order at the meeting.
The last few weeks might have been much easier if the day Rick Perry announced his executive order he also explained why. We have all heard the speculation about his reasons and of course we got the chance to hear Dave Carney, his chief political consultant say we were retarded. Whether it gets rescinded or not I would have to say signing the order certainly informed us all about the vaccine and HPV. I hope everyone takes the time to talk to their doctor about it and make their own decision free of the alarmist rhetoric we have been hearing. Do your own research and make a choice you can live with. As for myself, my two girls will start to be vaccinated at their next doctor visit.
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