Re: Texas Gov. Orders Anti-Cancer Vaccine
Maybe some good news on this...
Merck to Halt Lobbying for Vaccine for Girls
(Link to Article)Reacting to a furor from some parents, advocacy groups and public health experts, Merck said yesterday that it would stop lobbying state legislatures to require the use of its new cervical cancer vaccine.
The company said it made the decision after realizing that its lobbying campaign had fueled objections across the country that could undermine adoption of the vaccine.
At least 20 states are considering making its use mandatory for schoolgirls, and the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, has already done so by executive order. Part of the states’ rush to embrace the vaccine has been instigated by Merck efforts that began before federal regulators approved the product last year.
The vaccine is aimed at a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. Critics of the vaccine on moral and other grounds have used Merck’s perceived influence as a weapon in fighting the drug’s use. And some public health officials who favor the vaccine say the movement to make it mandatory has come too fast.
WTF?! Just that it is too fast? No problem with making it mandatory?
“They believe the timing for the school requirements is not right,” Dr. Haupt said
Right now, school requirements and Merck’s involvement in that are being viewed as a distraction to that goal.”
But Dr. Haupt said that Merck would continue to provide health officials and legislators with education about the vaccine and would continue to lobby for more financing for vaccines in general.
Oh okay nevermind here. Hmm left ear ringing. Same old politics and dirty tricks... Bah.
Merck has been a financial backer of Women in Government, a national organization of legislators whose members have sponsored some of the state laws to make the vaccine mandatory.
He said the objections to the vaccine could undermine its use. “I think it has been somewhat counterproductive. Anything that takes away from the process of getting vaccine into people is deleterious to the whole process.”
Are the masses starting to get hip to their games? They sound a little worried that their nefarious plot might be thwarted despite the MSM propaganda machine and all their other devices of deception they bring to bare against the unwary public.
Debbie Halvorson, the Democratic majority leader of the Illinois State Senate, who had a hysterectomy as a result of the human papillomavirus, is the sponsor of legislation to make the vaccine mandatory. She said she would continue to press for the bill, but that it was a good idea on Merck’s part to stop lobbying.
“If the people out there are thinking that Merck is doing all this, and pushing our buttons, they need to just step away,” she said. “The fact that I’m doing what I’m doing has nothing to do with Merck.”
So they give me money, help me get into office, etc etc. but trust me, there's no conflict of interest. Their money doesn't make me any less objective. You are getting veeeery sleeeeeeepy... Uh huh... I hate politics...
Okay. I'm really mad and they're pissing me off. Loosh frenzy, over here. I got a surplus cause they've been sucessfully pushing my buttons... Arrrgh ... I dunno some of the stuff I see in those links I posted just makes me want to cry...
