Michele Bachmann Continues Attacking Rick Perry over Vaccine to Prevent Cervical Cancer – Video 9/16/11

Here is video of Michele Bachmann continuing to attack Gov. Rick Perry over the HPV Vaccine issue, now dubbing it “Perrycare.”

Bachmann continues to suggest Perry tried to get the HPV Vaccine (recommended by the Centers for Disease Control) to young women and girls as some kind of payback to campaign contributors. She continues pushing this despite the fact Perry has said he was motivated by his desire to protect women from cervical cancer, as well as head and neck cancers. The HPV virus is one of the major causes of such cancers, and the vaccine is proven to prevent 80% of those cancers.

Perry has been defended by friends of a young woman in Houston who died of cervical cancer, whom Perry befriended in her final months and days. Perry has said his decisions were guided by his personal desire to prevent these cancers in as many women as possible.

Bachmann’s attacks on Perry over this issue for political gain have actually led her to suggest this life-saving vaccine can cause “mental retardation” – which is completely unsupported by anyone in the medical community.

Bachmann has already gone way too far with this line of attack, and my guess is if she tries to raise it again in the next GOP Debate – Perry will be ready.

Posted by Brian on Saturday, September 17th, 2011   |   27 Comments »
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  • Brad

    The point is Perry’s motives are suspect, not the pure caring for young girls like it’s pointed out to be. 

  • Katielee4211

    I think someone with a little imagination could say Bachmanns attack (on Merck & Gardisil) is suspect in light of her own receipt of contributions from the competitor.

  • Katielee4211

    On the social context—I agree. Unfortunately that’s not the society we live in—on more level than this.
    My point however is simply, we already mandate immunizations in violation of the right of parents (and with no choice by the child) to object in states without the opt out for philosophical reasons. I believe there are just a few states offering conscientous objection at this time. The remaining will allow for religious and medical reasons

  • Brad

    When the founders of the USA determined the society they live in was inadequate – they changed it – and built a constitution around individual liberty and freedom from the State.  The towel should not be thrown in.  

  • Katielee4211

    What would make you think I believe we should throw in the towel? Or believe otherwise? You’re making this assumption based on?
    Yes they built a Constitution around individual liberty and freedom from the State. So do you believe then, that the State has no right to require you to give your children the MMR, Varicella, Heb HepA and HepB? Meningococcal? Where do you draw the line? All of them, or only for those vaccines that clash with your personal morals?
    I’m not advocating the requirement of Mercks Gardisil, or Glaxo’s Cervarix. I’m keeping in context. If the mind set is that these vaccines are an invasion of our liberty and choice, then all other vaccines are as well.They are all invasive to our freedom to make the choice whether we are going to have them or not.

  • Anthony

    You are right ….they are ALL an invasion of our personal freedoms.  NO vaccine should be mandatory.  We should NOT be forced to receive any medical intervention.  So what you are saying then, is that, because all of the other vaccines are mandatory that we should just keep piling on the vaccines.  Where do we draw the line when it comes to mandating vaccines?  30, 40, 50, 100?  When is enough enough?  How many girls/children will have to be damaged before it ends?  The governent is risking the lives of our young girls!  The sad thing is that they will not be the ones who will have to pick up the pieces when the damage is done!  That will fall on the parents.  So they don’t care, and neither do the  pharmaceutical companies!  They are not liable for any damages, but they ARE the ones forcing this on us!  This is the point, I don’t really get yours.

  • Brad

    Here is the difference.  Some diseases such as measles pose a public health risk if you share a drink or sit close to someone.  Other diseases pose an individual health risk if you engage in sexual activity with an unknown risk partner.  The person who got measles did not have a choice.  The person that got HPV did. 

  • Katielee4211

    …and your point verges on hysteria.The HPV isn’t mandated .. anywhere, although some states had it on the docket. I’m making a point of comparison that if we’re going to call a vaccine–one vaccine only—invasive because it could be mandated (which it isn’t), and the government has no right to mandate, taking away our choices, then you have to look at other ‘mandated’ immunizations of far less deadly conditions. A government mandate is a mandate. If your going to be squacking about your rights to make your own choice (which there are opt outs—is there a philosophical opt out in your state? Do you have kids? Did you opt out), then don’t pick and choose.
    You do understand in the flu epidemics the last two years, some states were looking at mandating flu shots for anyone working in healthcare and public sector? And people had fits…and that in the face of a public health emergency. Because the government didn’t have the right to tell them they had to. The far more deadly and contagious flu, more so than some of the childhood diseases most of us had and survived. And survived our kids having.
    There are reactions and risks with any foreign substance entering the body. Including immunizations–all of them.

  • Katielee4211

    And if an HIV vaccine is developed? Yes or no? I agree, I don’t think HPV is in the same class, though far more deadly than measles. And arguable on the social context fairly high possibility to contract. The woman who contracts HPV, doesn’t have to have been with other partners, all it takes is her husband having been with one other person who was infected, and spreading it to her. Promiscuity isn’t a requirement. And contracting chicken pox , measles mumps isn’t unavoidable, and usually isn’t deadly, although it is contagious. I don’t recall the period of contagion in most of them anymore, but chicken pox, I believe was in a stage during which the person was already breaking out, in which case they had already not felt well, and were at home. parents would sometimes let their kids be exposed to get it over with because it was probably inevitable.
    Hep B , meningococcal aren’t prevalent, but are required. They aren’t going to be contracted through casual contact.

  • Anthony

    OH! By the way…. Gardasil® Developer Claims Vaccine Prevents Abnormal Pap Tests, NOT Cervical Cancer.

    http://www.free-press-release.com/news-gardasil-developer-claims-vaccine-prevents-abnormal-pap-tests-not-cervical-cancer-1297697975.html

  • Anthony

    OH! By the way…. Gardasil® Developer Claims Vaccine Prevents Abnormal Pap Tests, NOT Cervical Cancer.

    http://www.free-press-release.com/news-gardasil-developer-claims-vaccine-prevents-abnormal-pap-tests-not-cervical-cancer-1297697975.html

  • Anonymous

    The President of the MD Anderson Cancer Center on the HPV Vaccine - http://freedomslighthouse.net/2011/09/13/president-of-md-anderson-cancer-center-calls-it-unethical-to-not-support-hpv-vaccination-video/

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