99.8% of the girls will not get cervical cancers.This aluminum/boric acid/polysorbate containing vaccine may
damage and weaken the girls immune system.This polysorbate/boric acid detergent combo will weaken the cell
membranes.Boric acid contains arsenic.Smoking,chemicals and
not doing pap test for 5 years or longer are the problems.
HPV virus can be passed on the newborn during a vaginal
delivery.HPV virus can be picked up at the day care by/from
shared toys.Your immune system will clear up more than 94%
of the viruses.Do pap test regularly,keep your immune system strong.Have a very healthy sexual relationship, minimize the number of partners as infections and cancer
will RISE in the future due to weaker immune systems (vaccine and toxin over-load/bio-accumulation/lab-viruses).
Turn off the tv/lies/pharma marketing/it is always about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$s. There is only one winner in this game. Over 20,000 reported adverse effects,over 100 dead,
many disabled,many in pain,many lost the quality of their lives.Only about 4% of the complaints make it to the vaers data-base.Stay smart,stay strong,research and educate yourself first.

Please see this:
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/if-you-think-rino-rick-perry-the-bilderberg-boy-is-not-for-big-government-well-think-again-th/question-2145051/?page=1&postId=67164905#post_67164905

SNIP:

Jan 04, 2011 - "Amidst all of the media hype surrounding HPV vaccines, the traditional press has remained silent on many critical issues, not the least of which occurred on the 31 of August 2010 in France. As of that date, Merck’s marketing partner for the HPV vaccine Gardasil, Sanofli-Pasteur, was officially prohibited from advertising Gardasil for cervical cancer prevention in France."

Link: FRANCE SAYS 'NO' AS THEY BAN GARDASIL ADS:

http://www.prlog.org/11194408-gardasil-one-less-victim-of-cervical-cancer-france-says-no-as-they-ban-gardasil-ads.html

SNIP:

"The SaneVax Team would like to formally thank the French government for examining the situation and taking appropriate action. We sincerely hope governments around the world follow your example and prohibit pharmaceutical companies from continuing to mislead medical professionals and consumers by distorting data and making claims of facts where none exist."

"The SaneVax Team would also like to know why this story was not covered by any of our traditional press counterparts. Where are all of the investigative journalists in the world? One has to wonder."

Dr. Jamison,

Did you READ the stories regarding the four girls who have had horrific side effects from the Gardasil vaccine? Dr. Jamison, I am as of this very moment, receiving reports from families from all over the United States as to the type of side effect, duration of side effect; timing of the adverse event post-vaccination, and whether or not the adverse events were life threatening, disabling, and/or still current, upon receipt of the Gardasil vaccine by these families' daughters.

The MEDICAL expense incurred after these events for these families runs anywhere from $20,000.00, plus, to well over $100,000.00.

You are absolutely delusional if you think these events are MINOR. Wake up, open your heart, and take a look at the VAERS database if you don't believe me.

Better yet, if you would care to, (the oath "First Do No Harm" comes to mind), please contact Marian Greene, who runs the The Truth About Gardasil website, or contact journalist/researcher Leslie Botha who put together two presentations before the FDA as to research she and a panel of researchers performed as to adverse events regarding Gardasil. Botha, Dr. Diane Harper and this panel of women could provide you with a plethora of information as to the side effects young girls have experienced upon receipt of the Gardasil vaccine.

How in the world you could come away, feeling these adverse events are MINOR, is absolutely beyond my ability to understand. I would not call a death of a daughter or son to this vaccine, a MINOR incident. If one of these children happened to be your daughter/son or your granddaughter/grandson, how would you feel then?

My dear Dr. Jamison - WAKE UP. India halted the Gardasil vaccination campaign out there because it was causing too many untoward side effects and death. France will not allow the Gardasil vaccine to be marketed in its country because of the known side effects; two young French girls have now filed lawsuits because of the damage caused to them post vaccination.

I will, at times, read articles as to the numbers of children who die in bathtubs on a yearly basis, or the numbers of children who die from any other assortment of issues, but the ONE article I don't see in our mainstream press, is about the high numbers of vaccine damaged children and adults. These children are our future, yet I see absolutely NOTHING in our mainstream press which appropriately addresses this issue.

I have been told by several physician friends of mine that actually, more physicians ARE speaking out as to their concerns as to the United States immunization program, but they do not dare to speak out openly about this issue, for a variety of reasons.

But the fact that YOU are here, Dr. Jamison, at this website, speaks more in volume than in words. You're here for a reason, Dr. Jamison.

Perhaps you care more than you are willing to acknowledge. I certainly hope that is the case.

Best,

Kim

Nick M.,

Take a deep breath and READ my comments: I am NOT the one that made those comments - Dr. William Jamison/OB/GYN/OHIO, made them. Go back and read ALL my comments. I have a vaccine injured child (thankfully, almost completely recovered). I am not now, nor have I ever been, a proponent of forced/mandated vaccination.

I am the California State Director for the National Vaccine Information Center. I reach out to parents as to parental rights issues regarding medical healthcare issues.

Thanks.

-Kim

Bayareamom says: "This is my final comment here: Shame on all those who seek to turn young women against these life-saving vaccines."

Shame on you for trying to force people to take a shot. If you want people to be able to take the shot that bad then go out and campaign and hand out pamphlets. But no one should ever be FORCED to take a vaccine. Shame on you, Bayareamom.

Well, Dr. Jamison, can't say as though I'm surprised. You spout the same rhetoric repeatedly, but give no indication whatsoever as to whether you've taken the time to review the VAERS database regarding adverse events re: Gardasil. You're not appalled with these dire outcomes?

Shame on YOU, Dr. Jamison, SHAME ON YOU.

THANK you, Benedetta; that was very sweet of you. I've written a more lengthy story about our son's vaccine injuries awhile ago, but wanted to clarify re: the above article.

I've noted a resounding silence from one Dr. Jamison. I sincerely hope our good Dr. Jamison will check out the VAERS database regarding Gardasil adverse events. Over 90 deaths are being attributed to the Gardasil vaccine. This vaccine is perhaps THE most horrific and dangerous vaccine on today's market. Efforts by many groups is ongoing for the removal of this vaccine from the world-wide market.

I would beg any physician who has perhaps been induced by big pharma lobbyists (and others) to look into their hearts and take a look at the other side. There are ALWAYS two sides to any story. There is NO such thing as coincidence; all things happen for a reason.

Benedetta,

It wasn't my loss, but the loss of the Mom who wrote that first piece about her daughter. You can read more about her story and others, at the Truth About Gardasil.com website.

I have one son who was damaged by a whole cell pertussis DPT vaccine at the age of four months. Our son suffered horrific reactions to all his so-called well baby vaccines and was also exposed to the RhoGam vaccine, Penicillin and a tetanus shot given to me when I was pregnant (for an extremely mild cat scratch which barely broke the skin). I have recently found out that I was most likely given a DPT vaccine at that time.

We quit vaccinating our son when he was six months old, because - even without the pertussis component, which he was exempted from - he still suffered complete somnolence for two days post vaccination. Our son was no longer vaccinated after this point.

Today, I am happy to state, he is a healthy, vibrant 18 year old young man. We use homeopathy for all our healthcare needs. Dr. Randall Neustaedter is our physician and quite literally gave us our son back.

This was a huge lesson learned for me and for my family. I have since made it my mission in life to help spread the word to other families, just as all of you are doing as well.

Best,

Kim

Oh, Mr. Jamison, you're really on fire now.

Here's the right way to use "begs the question":
http://books.google.com/books?id=WdtLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA145#v=onepage&q&f=false

As for a license to kill, if a girl believes she's protected from HPV by Gardasil and (based on that belief) goes on to have unprotected sex with a large number of individuals, and contracts HIV, and dies a horrible death, who will be to blame then?

Of course, you still have not addressed the issue of whether it makes sense to mandate a vaccine aimed at protecting people from a virus that is avoidable by behavioral changes--a virus that only in a very, very small percentage of people ever causes cancer. More lives would be saved by mandating fire suits and safety helmets for automobile drivers and passengers, or by upgrading every family to a car with anti-lock brakes. I wonder why Rick Perry didn't think of those mandates...

Dr. Jamison,

Here are but a few girls whose lives have been changed forever since they have received the Gardasil vaccine:

GIRL NO. 1:

"I want to introduce you to Ashley. She was 15 at the time of her first shot and she is now 16. Here is what her mother has to say about her daughter. “I am a single mother and have dedicated my life to providing a safe, fun loving environment for my daughter. She has been a gift in my life. I describe her as having an old soul. People of all ages, race, disabled, even animals connect with her. She has always attracted attention from everyone even complete strangers. Ashley will immediately help anyone in need. From holding open a door, to standing up for a child being picked on. People in our community always tell me what a great job I have done raising her.”

“Ashley has always been involved in extra curricular school activities and has always received top grades. My healthy teenage daughter became a chronically ill young woman. In the last year I have called 911 more times than I can count. She has been hospitalized three times within a year. We have seen many doctors and specialists who have done many tests multiple times all to be within normal limits. Ashley experiences life threatening episodes of seizure like activity, difficulty breathing, major back spasms, paralysis, dehydration, memory loss and tremors and she becomes unresponsive. She has daily illnesses of nausea, exhaustion, vomiting, pain and hair loss. I have provided CPR and life saving skills on a regular basis”.

“Ashley and I have had conversations in the event she may die. I can only promise her that I will do everything in my power for this not to happen and that we need to focus on healing. I never thought in a million years a vaccine would do this much damage to my beautiful girl. I stay strong for my daughter. I also cry with her too. I keep faith in knowing God doesn’t put more on our shoulders than we can handle. As a mother, I also feel the responsibility to get Ashley’s story out there so we can help other families.”

“Now she is ill – her life is dealing with daily symptoms and hoping for a day without a life threatening episode.”

GIRL NO. 2:

“Nora has always been a great kid—she’s the oldest of our 3—a 16 year brother, Jack and a 15 year-old sister, Sally.

"Nora was an honor role student her entire high school career, a 3 sport athlete until her senior year where she only played basketball and softball. She was named all academic-all conference for each sport she played. She has always made friends easily and enjoys the things that most girls her age do. She started working as a hostess at a local Red Lobster in the spring of her Junior year and was promoted to waitress last summer. She attends the University of Illinois at Champaign and plans to major in Kinesiology.”

“I am very proud of Nora and I feel very badly that I agreed to have her receive Gardasil. She asked me the other day why we didn’t know of its potential harm….I had no good answer.”

“Nora is now taking seizure medication. There is no family history of seizures.”

“She received her first shot June 16, 2008 and fainted June 21, 2008. My husband and I were at a friend’s house for dinner. At about 7:30pm, our youngest daughter called to say something was wrong with our 18 year old daughter Nora, and that the ambulance was taking her to the ER. She received her second shot August 19, 2008 and had the seizures September 2, 2008. I got a phone call from a young woman who lives on the same floor in the same dorm as Nora to let me know that Nora had had a seizure.”

GIRL NO. 3
Age 21 (Marlborough, Massachusetts)

"Prior to Gardasil, I had no previous known illnesses or behavioral issues, except for an occasional migraine headache. I had no complications whatsoever with IUD or menstrual cycle until after I had my first Gardasil shot (Lot 1758U) on April 28, 2008 – IUD removed October 2008. My second Gardasil vaccination (Lot 0651X) was on January 8, 2009 and I had this along with a tetanus shot. My symptoms include: 30 lbs unexplained weight loss and my hair falling out in clumps and migraines. I experienced sudden sharp pains all over my body, which are most intense in my head, abdomen and legs."

"Earaches and frequent ear popping with pain and stiffness in elbows, knees, wrists and ankles and a numbness in my face including lips, nose and cheeks; pressure in sinuses, stiffness and tightening in my neck. I have had vision problems including double vision, blurred vision, light auras, difficulty focusing and pain/pressure in and around my eyes. Frequent muscle spasms all over and a weakness/numbnes/tingling in arms and pains in legs. Have experienced weak to no reflexes in my left elbow and right knee and have had chest pains and tightness. Sharp shooting pains in pelvic area/vaginal areas. Also my menstrual cycle has been irregular and heaviness with pain in lower back. Cramps/Charlie horses in legs and feet and also cold hands and feet and also experiencing tremors in my legs. Severe anxiety issues, causing my heart to race/blood pressure to increase; anger and irritability issues. I am unable to concentrate for any length of time. The sensation to urinate comes on strong and it feels like I am going to lose control and am left with a feeling of incomplete urination."

"Diagnosis: An X-ray showed my spine is straightening and CT scan showed my intestine is swollen. I have received no exact diagnosis as yet. I am to receive an MRI of my brain and neck (cervical) in August 2009 and shortly afterwards I am scheduled to see a Neurologist."

"Gardasil has completely changed my life. Before Gardasil, I never had a pain that I could not explain. For a year now I have been in and out of doctors offices desperately searching for an answer. I am no longer able to perform my job the way I used to. Before Gardasil, I was enrolled in college with a 4.0 and now I cannot even finish a book I am just trying to enjoy. I feel like I am not giving my son and fiancé the time they deserve from me, because I am too tired, in too much pain, or because I am at the doctor’s office. I just want to be myself again and enjoy every moment of being a mom, but everyday it feels like I am falling further away from the “old me” or the “me before Gardasil.”

GIRL NO. 4:

"My daughter Steffanee’s illnesses started after she had completed her three Gardasil vaccinations, the first was in 8/2008, the second in 11/2008 and the final vaccination she had on 1/2/2009. Her serious health problems started on February 2, 2009 and from that moment on things started to deteriorate. Over a period of time she had four ER visits at the University of Missouri, Columbia and the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota. Her many symptoms included: headaches, panic attacks, she could not breathe, felt her throat was closing up, brain fog, fatigue, severe joint and muscle pain and spasms, really bad knee pain, energy level low, non epileptic seizures, twitches, neurological disorder with muscle movements that are uncontrollable, jerking of limbs and entire body. That is to name just a few and today there has been a slight improvement, doing better, but still has twitching/jerking of limbs and knee pain."

"Our lives were turned upside down on Feb 2, 2009. We got a call from her school, our 17 year old daughter was having severe seizures, screaming in pain. This was the very first time I had ever seen anything like that. It started with muscle spasms in her back. It was like that for 6 weeks, ambulance rides and in and out of hospitals and ERs. It was her first visit to the hospital; she was a very healthy girl prior to having the Gardasil vaccinations. I worry about her every day. Her life has been on hold for about 5 months, she sleeps a lot. She is very fatigued most of the time. Her personality changed through all this, I’m sure it’s because she was in so much pain. I hope and pray every single day that these seizures will stop, that this Gardasil vaccine will get out of her system and let her have her life back. She went through a depression when she was in and out of the hospital, missing school & cheerleading. She was VERY active prior to February 2, 2009."

"I have to have my cell phone with me every minute of the day, afraid that she will need me or that one of her friends is trying to get in touch with me, because she is having a seizure. Adolescents are supposed to be carefree and worry
about nothing. Gardasil changed that for a lot of girls. The emotional stress alone has been very hard on our family. The financial part has added more stress. I believe they have run every test available on her, all results……normal. That in itself is not normal with all the serious health problems that Steffanee has."

"They say stress adds to the Gardasil Girls problems. How can they not be stressed, worrying that they will become ill at school and their parents would then have to be sent for?"

TRUTHFULLY, there are HUNDREDS, if not THOUSANDS, of similar reports, detailing almost the exact same adverse events as the above.

For more information, learn more about Gardasil deaths and injuries, at: http://truthaboutgardasil.org/injuries/

To Mr. Blaxill:

My name is spelled J A M I S O N, not J A M I E S O N.

Furthermore, regarding your series entitled "License to Kill", it is becoming increasingly evident that a percentage of young women (and probably young men as well) will either die or suffer through horribly invasive surgery, precisely because, on the advice of you and others, they elected not to be immunized against these cancer-causing viruses.

This observation begs the question: will your efforts to persuade young people against receiving these life-saving vaccines someday be characterized as a "License to Kill"?

William Jamison, to mandate a vaccine aimed at preventing a virus that can lead to a type of cancer that currently strikes 0.004 percent of Americans is just not a reasonable cost/benefit decision. I'm waiting for firesuits and crash helmets to become mandated in Texas; after all, far more Americans die in automobile accidents than of cervical cancer.

William you have come to the wrong place to tell us about the joys of vaccines.

Three of my family members had reactions and one family member was just recently re-injured from a forced vaccination to become a nurse.

You have no idea the joy it is to be up all night in a hospital keeping an eye on your daughter that had a psychotic episode. That was last year. Would you like to hear about the long drawn out story of how my son had a stroke six hours after his third DPT shot, or about his heart murmur and inflamed left venticule after his first. Or long ago how my two year old daughter had Kawasakis from her DPT shot, or how my husband has acquired mitochondrial disorder from his vaccine.

You want Rick Perry to get our support?
Is that what you are after?
Then don't come here telling us about
" Gardasil most definitely protects against cervical cancers caused by vaccine-related HPV genotypes."
Because most of us know how many genotypes are out there and actually know how many genotypes the vaccine covers.
We also know that there is a limit on how many vaccines can be taken by the human body - because most of us that read this blog knows personally people who have over reached their limit.
You are not helping Rick Perry, I really had not made up my mind - I thought he was perhaps naive and maybe could get it - but if you are from his camp (me, a die hard republican) will just stay home.

The Texas Breck Boy can't hide from the truth:

http://www.infowars.com/gardasil-exposed-deadly-vaccine-pushed-on-millions-of-young-boys-and-girls-worldwide/

For the Merck defenders here, a few facts.
1. The idea that Gardasil vaccination protects against cervical cancer is a theory. We won't know for many years whether or not the vaccine works. There might be other factors involved even if the four HPV strains in the vaccine are involved in causing cancer and induced immunity to them is in some way protective.
2. There are unintended consequences when inducing immunity to a few HPV strains. Almost certainly, other strains will arise to fill the ecological niche of the vaccine strains. These may well be more virulent and lead to an increase in cancer risk not a reduction. For this reason alone, Gardasil is not a substitute for regular gyneological exams and pap smears, which have been hugely effective in preventing cervical cancer deaths.
3. The largest beneficiary of vaccines against polyvalent microbe strains is the vaccine manufacturer. Wyeth made billions on Prevnar, a vaccine that ended up simply promoting the growth of different and likely more virulent strains of pneumococcal bacteria and has had an ambiguous impact on reducing death from invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). Prevnar 13 was introduced as a reaction to the failure of the seven strains in the original vaccine to provide adequate protection against IPD. Gardasil strongly resembles Prevnar in its both its commercial and protective profile.
4. In the meantime, Gardasil harms, disables and kills young women. This cost is not theoretical, it was incurred in the clinical trials and continues.

So on the theory that Gardasil might prevent cancer many years from now based on protecting against infection from a handful of HPV strains (cancer cases that could just as easily be prevented through other means), some want to mandate a vaccine that makes Julie Gerberding's Merck Vaccine Division billions in revenue while killing and diasbling a significant number of young women and also disrupting the HPV ecosystem and promoting the development of more virulent strains.

Does that seems like rational policy to anyone other than Merck?

To the author, regarding the robin comment:

You say that association does not equal causation, but that's because you are not an epidemiologist, or perhaps a scientist of any kind.

The facts are this: in numerous studies worldwide, HPV viral DNA has been detected in 99.5% of all tumor specimens tested. In addition, scientists know in great detail how HPV viral oncoproteins (I.e., cancer-causing proteins) actually cause cancer.

As I stated before, the connection between infection with either of the strains that are protected against by the current vaccines and cervical cancer is closer than the connection between smoking and lung cancer.

Do you also believe that scientific evidence proving that smoking causes lung cancer is some diabolical plot designed to prevent you from enjoying cigareetes?

Keep up the good and hard work of following Rick Perry around - reminding him of how he betrayed humanity FOREVER.
When I first learned of his sloppy Executive Order, I vowed I would remember his action till the very end. Many of us mothers and fathers will. Monumental mistake.

For all you posters here saying Guardasil isn't really all that bad, you're wasting your time. I have talked to people personally, and have seen gobs of Youtubes and reports by actual victims. If you think I am going to believe these victims are lying and those who get paid to come on the Internet to promote vaccines by posing as the general public, aren't, let me quote Jim Carrey, "How stupid do you think we are."

Mr. Jamison,

I am sorry that you do not read science-speak. Let me help by translating the quote you provided:

"Nearly all cases of cervical cancer are associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection,[3,4] which is transmitted during sexual activity."

Associated with ≠ cause

We can safely conclude that the authors did not mean "are caused by"; they meant "are associated with." That is what they wrote, after all.

Robins are associated with suburban landscapes in temperate climates, but suburban landscapes do not cause robins. I am willing to bet that there are many other viral and retroviral and bacterial DNA sequences "associated with" cervical cancer, if only enough research and analyses were done to identify them. Whether or not any of them "cause" cervical cancer remains unknown. How do these scientists know that cervical cancer does not just provide an environment that somehow favors replication of the HPV virus?

Apparently, they don't know. Otherwise they would not have chosen the words "associated with." The wording makes it quite clear (to those of us who actually read science articles carefully) that the scientists who wrote the statement were not willing to stake their reputations on an unproven assumption, i.e. that HPV causes cervical cancer.

That quote might work well for advertising, (or for convincing politicians who reportedly barely made it through school), but it isn't going to fly here.

Correlation does not equal causation, unless there is a pharmaceutical that either targets the correlation or may be protected by blaming another correlation. Gospel according to St. Merck?

Maybe misinterpreting here, but Perry seems to be apologizing for helping create a greater backlash than the vaccine might have caused on its own? But for certain he is responsible for pursuing a course that violated informed consent at the risk of some girls' and their families' liberty, sometimes including their lives. The existence of an unmentioned "opt out" with no discussion or research on the risks is not informed consent. I don't exactly see his statements now as a call for an informed public in regards to vaccination or as a promotion of patient choice.

The Breck Boy's minions will not like being made ...

@William Jamison

Funny how commenters like you always claim the vaccine would have prevented deaths (despite the high failure rate of many vaccines), yet any death after the vaccine is always coincidental. It never fails, the recipient always had one foot in the grave long before the vaccine. Of course, any comment whatsoever questioning vaccine safety is condemned as irresponsible, reckless, and unethical.

What’s your angle? Is your livelihood supported by the sale or administration of vaccines? Pediatrician? Drug Rep? Public Health employee? Do you personally profit from the vaccine industry and state vaccine mandates?

Our angle is our kids got sick after being vaccinated, usually from simultaneous does of vaccines that had never been safety tested together. I’m sure it’s just another one of your coincidences.

It's important to note, in the discussion of adverse reactions to this vaccine, that nearly all such reactions are minor, and that there have been no deaths linked to usage of the vaccine.

People that imply that the vaccine has been linked to death tend to gloss over the fact that in a population comparable in size to the population that's been vaccinated, a roughly equal number of deaths have also occurred, which obviously are from non-vaccine-related causes.

Thus, death can happen regardless of whether or not you've received this vaccine, and to say that the vaccine caused those deaths is unethical, immoral and irresponsible.

It also may be useful to consider that cancer can be thought of as an "adverse event" in life, and it is unquestionably more inconvenient than soreness at the site of injection, which is the most common adverse event associated with this vaccine.

Victor...follow the money....

http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/5546651.html

Is Victor short for Victor-y? Are you a Rick Perry mark?

Uh, rather than Perry and the legislature throwing the idea out the window, it was more like the legislature throwing Perry and his executive order out the window.

If the executive order mandate, that the Department of State Health Services make the HPV vaccine available through the Texas Vaccines for Children program for eligible young females up to age 18, and the Health and Human Services Commission make the vaccine available to Medicaid-eligible young females from age 19 to 21, was implemented, it's certainly possible that girls lost their lives as a result. However, that said, without reasonable evidence that that indeed occurred, I agree the headline is misleading.

@Victor

You wrote: "When conservatives spoke out, Perry and the legislature threw the idea out the window before the legislative session was over"

Perry did no such thing. The legislature passed a bill by a huge margin overturning Perry's executive order. Perry blasted the legislature and trotted out cancer victims and accused the legislature of wanting more of the same. When it became clear that the legislature would not back down, and that the legislature had the votes to override Perry's veto, Perry let the bill become law without his signature. This is clearly documented and incontrovertible.

I agree that the headline is confusing, but your comment adds to the confusion. The article is dead right that Perry did not change his stance until this started to become an issue for the presidential nomination. It was political opportunism at its worst.

Many conservatives (myself included) are very troubled by Perry's actions. This is not political posturing on our part; this is a very valid issue that speaks poorly of the Governor's judgment.

Did you purposefully give false information in your headline to promote a different candidate, or did you just not do the research?

In Texas, no law, no mandate, no requirements, no anything went into law or into practice. When conservatives spoke out, Perry and the legislature threw the idea out the window before the legislative session was over--something few other officials would have done.

Will you apologize for insinuating that Perry has cost lives, given that nobody--not one person--in Texas received a mandatory Gardasil vaccine?

Middle Americans believe in forgiveness if someone says they are sorry.

But that does not mean that they skip punishment.

He could very well be the: "Make him the example of what can happen if you end up on the wrong side of an issue".