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Better late than never: MSM worries about Gardasil

by Jill Stanek

Last January, Fran and I began reporting on the first vaccine to prevent an STD: Gardasil by Merck, to fend off HPV, the human papillomavirus.

Living in IL, I smelled a rat when bills began simultaneously popping up in state legislatures across the U.S. to mandate the 3-shot Gardasil regimen to all 11- and 12-year-old girls. State Sen. Debbie Halvorson was pushing the IL legislation.  We blogged against the liberal and MSM tide, even getting a mention in the New York Times over the "Debbie does" series. Was the vaccine safe? Was it smart? Was there quid pro quo?

After TX Gov. Rick Perry went so far as to sign an executive order forcing the vaccine, it came to light that Merck had financial ties to the poke pushers.

Perry's exec order was overturned, Merck called off its legislative whores, and pro-family proponents won the day, even while liberals and MSM grumbled at our ignorance.

HPV vaccine & adverse effects

by David E. Smith

A little-reported fact about the highly touted HPV vaccine, Gardasil, is the number of adverse effects associated with it. The vaccine has been targeted at young girls to provide an antidote to the virus if they become sexually active as teenagers.

Big sigh as House sends HPV non-mandate to Gov

by Fran Eaton

If you heard an audible sigh of relief Tuesday afternoon, it was from parents of 11 and 12 year old girls who escaped the long arms of Big Pharm as the Illinois House passed SB 937 this afternoon sans an HPV vaccination mandate.   

Instead, Senator Debbie Halvorson (D-Crete) and her House co-hort Rep. Naomi Jakobbsson (D-Champaign) stepped back from requiring girls to have the HPV vaccine for school attendance.  With today's bill passage, the state will require doctors to simply give information about the HPV vaccine to pre-teen girls' parents at their new 6th grade physical examination time. SB 937 is headed for Governor Blagojevich's desk after passing the IL Senate in March and the State House today.

Three HPV vaccine deaths reported to FDA

Medical News Today reported May 24:

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released documents obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, detailing 1,637 reports of adverse reactions to the vaccination for human papillomavirus, Gardasil. Three deaths were related to the vaccine. One physician's assistant reported that a female patient "died of a blood clot three hours after getting the Gardasil vaccine." Two other reports, on girls 12 and 19, reported deaths relating to heart problems and/or blood clotting.

As of May 11, 2007, the 1,637 adverse vaccination reactions reported to the FDA via the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System included 371 serious reactions. Of the 42 women who received the vaccine while pregnant, 18 experienced side effects ranging from spontaneous abortion to fetal abnormities....

[M]ore serious side effects reported include paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures.

HPV Vaccine Effort Encounters Strong Opposition

Heartland Institute includes a national update on the dwindling movement to mandate the HPV vaccine in its June edition of Health Care News . . .

When HPV vaccine mandates began to roll through 24 state legislatures early in 2007, pro-family activist groups such as Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, and Eagle Forum alerted parents.

Flawed HPV vaccine fizzles

by Jill Stanek

A great source of excitement for me has been blogging on the pharma industry's lucrative idea earlier this year, which foolish legislators - almost all liberal - ran with, to mandate the HPV vaccine for all 11- and 12-year-old girls. The New York Times even disparaged one of my HPV posts on IL Review, which is always a badge of honor.

When the red flags raised became too numerous to count, MSM quietly quit hyping the vaccine, as did those legislators like Debbie Halvorson, who it turns out were admitted tools of big pharma.

But here are we, conservative bloggers, continuing to drive nails in the HPV vaccine mandate's coffin by relaying news you'll only find in 9 pt. font in MSM newspapers:

Texas legislature spanks Gov. Perry over HPV vaccine exec order

The Texas legislature sent their governor a "Take that!" message this week when they overruled Gov. Perry's exec order requiring all 11 year old girls to get the HPV vaccine.  Links of the governor's staff to the vaccine manufacturer were eyebrow-raising and led to the reprimand . . .

Illinois' HPV vaccine mandate faced similar obstacles and the mandate has slowed to encouraging public education about the issue.  But parents should remain on a cautiously-optimistic alert.

HPV Vaccine: Double Standard Deluxe

submitted by William Beckman, Executive Director of Illinois Right to Life Committee

Abortion supporters are appalled that the government of Illinois might actually require parents to be notified before their teenage daughters can get abortions.  Such a requirement might interfere with a young girl’s right to get an abortion without telling her parents. 

The hidden implication is that such a girl has adequate judgment, even at a young age, to make her own decision whether or not to inform her parents.  Of course, she will make this decision under the advisement of her doctor, and the government cannot interfere with that doctor / patient relationship.  Just ignore the fact that she will see the doctor for the first time when he begins the abortion procedure.

NM Gov vetoes HPV vaccine bill

Link: Gov. Richardson vetoes HPV vaccine bill : Local State Government : Albuquerque Tribune.

SANTA FE — In a turnabout, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson today vetoed a bill that would have required girls entering 6th grade to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer.

Richardson had earlier indicated that he would sign the bill after it won approval from the Legislature last month.

But he said Tuesday that parents and doctors from across the state had contacted him with concerns about the program.

Dr. introduces federal legislation to stop HPV vaccine mandate

Not only has Senator Debbie Halvorson's SB 10 mandating the HPV vaccine for 11 year old girls ready to be voted in the Senate, State Rep. Naomi Jakobbson's House version -- HB 115 -- could be called for a House floor vote as soon as next week.

Evidently, our Illinois Senate and House sponsors have more insight into the mandatory vaccination issue than physician and U.S. Congressman  Phil Gringey  (R-GA) does.  He's proposed a ban on federal funding of the HPV vaccine mandate.