{"id":2708,"date":"2007-02-02T21:35:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T21:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2007\/02\/02\/money-power\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T21:35:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T21:35:45","slug":"money-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2708","title":{"rendered":"money-power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Perry just signed an <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16948093\/%22\">executive order<\/a> that would require all girls be vaccinated with the HPV vaccine starting in 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perry sidestepped opposition in the Legislature from conservatives and parents\u2019 rights groups who fear such a requirement would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way Texans raise their children.<br \/>\nBeginning in September 2008, girls entering the sixth grade \u2014 meaning, generally, girls ages 11 and 12 \u2014 will have to receive Gardasil, Merck &#038; Co.\u2019s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV.<br \/>\nPerry also directed state health authorities to make the vaccine available free to girls 9 to 18 who are uninsured or whose insurance does not cover vaccines. In addition, he ordered that Medicaid offer Gardasil to women ages 19 to 21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Was it Merck, or was it common sense?  Texas becomes the first state to make the vaccine mandatory, and this type of news just blows me away.  I&#8217;m also waiting to hear news of a lawsuit because some parent some where is going to claim that the vaccine is going to make their child sexually active.<br \/>\nOy Vey.<br \/>\nSo, cheers to Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Perry just signed an executive order that would require all girls be vaccinated with the HPV vaccine starting in 2008. Perry sidestepped opposition in the Legislature from conservatives and parents\u2019 rights groups who fear such a requirement would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way Texans raise their children. Beginning in September 2008, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}