Perry lies again about Texas Gardasil scandal, claims woman he met after signing executive order lobbied him to pass it
(NaturalNews) The more Texas Gov. Rick Perry tries to defend his
decision to sign an executive order in 2007 mandating that all young
girls in Texas receive vaccinations against the human papillomavirus
(HPV) before being admitted to school, the more he exposes himself as a
lying scoundrel that is unfit to govern his own state, let alone lead a
nation.
During the recent Republican presidential debate in
Orlando, Fla., Perry tried once again to defend his infamous Gardasil
blunder, this time by telling the heart-tugging story of a woman he met
and got to know who had cervical cancer. He told the audience and
viewers Thursday night that the reason he signed the executive order was
because the woman lobbied him to do so.
"I got lobbied on this
issue," said a calm and composed Perry. "I got lobbied by a 31 year old
young lady who had stage-four cervical cancer. I spent a lot of time
with her. She came by my office. She talked to me about this program. I
readily admitted we should have had an opt-in (for the mandate) but I
don't know what part of opt out most parents don't get. The fact is I
was on the side of life and I will always be on the side of life as a
governor and as president of the United States."
A charming and sweet story, really -- except for the fact that it is not true. According to ABC News, Perry signed the vaccine executive order before he met the young woman, not after, as he claims. The woman did, according to reports, lobby in favor of upholding
the executive order after it had been signed (which the legislature
eventually overturned), but she did not play a role in Perry's original
signing of it.
Unlike the petty issues that typically bog down
the presidential campaigning process, Perry's Gardasil scandal is
gravely serious and needs to be exposed. After all, the vaccine that he
pushed is implicated in causing thousands of serious and permanent
injuries, and potentially hundreds of known deaths, which is a far cry
from his empty rhetoric about "being on the side of life" (http://truthaboutgardasil.org/).
Perry was truthful about one thing, though. He was
lobbied to sign his executive order. But this lobbying appears to have
come from Merck & Co., the manufacturer of Gardasil, not a
heart-wrenching victim of cervical cancer
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