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Merck's HPV Lobbying May be Coming to Your State

Unfortunately, Texas isn't the only state considering making the needless Merck human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil a requirement for young teenage women, according to news reports.

Merck, maker of the notorious Vioxx, has been throwing money around the country through Women in Government, a lobbying group targeting female state legislators. The latest goal: Pushing the passage of HPV requirements in at least 18 states.

Although Merck openly admits its lobbying ties with Women in Government, the mega-drugmaker won't say how much money they're funneling through the non-profit, but here's a possible measuring stick: With Merck doubling its spending on lobbying, just in Texas, to some $250,000, multiply that by 18 and you'll get almost $5 million.

Spending $5 million (or some $12.5 million if you're considering the whole country) is mere chump change compared to the $1 BILLION Merck could earn annually from Gardasil, says one drug industry analyst.

Just a reminder, more than 6 million women contract HPV annually, but a woman's immune system is often strong enough to clear up this infection on its own and it's virtually 100 percent avoidable without a vaccine.

Kaiser Network.org February 1, 2007

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Posted On Feb 03, 2007
If I had a daughter the age they require for the vaccine, I would move or home school my child.  There is absolutely no way (over my dead body) I would allow anyone to inject her with this poison.  

 

 
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Posted On Feb 03, 2007
I am spreading the word that School Districts cannot impose their belief onto any parents.  You do NOT have to have your children vaccinated in order to go to a public school!  On the back of your registration form, or some schools have a separate form you check the box that vaccinations are against your religious beliefs.  They have to notify you if there is an outbreak at the school and you may be required to have your child on independent study until the outbreak is over.  This has been in place for years.  I have been a registrar for years.


Unicorn
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Posted On Feb 03, 2007
Besides that, what right does our government have to ASSUME that young women will be immoral, which is the ONLY way to contract HPV!  Thanks for the vote of confidence!


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Posted On Feb 04, 2007
I have known for many years that vaccines were the greatest scourge to ever hit the planet. Vaccinating your children is a physiological curse bringing about arthritis, cancer, brain damage, and a host of sufferings. I call them, the work of the Devil.  So when 25 years ago the West Virginia authorities threatened to take our children because we were unfit parents who did not vaccinate, we packed up our house and moved to Virginia where the only document necessary to avoid vaccines is to sign a waiver. By the way, West Virginia and Mississippi are the only two states where there are virtually no means for exemption.


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Posted On Feb 05, 2007
I agree 100%. I will pull my daughter out of school if they try to force them to get that poison.

 
 
 
Posted On Feb 02, 2007
It's now a done deal in Texas -- just saw this news article:

Texas Gov. orders anti-cancer vaccine

By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON, Associated Press Writer 

Bypassing the Legislature altogether, Republican Gov. Rick Perry issued an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.

By employing an executive order, Perry sidestepped opposition in the Legislature from conservatives and parents' rights groups who fear such a requirement would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way Texans raise their children.

Beginning in September 2008, girls entering the sixth grade — meaning, generally, girls ages 11 and 12 — will have to receive Gardasil, Merck & Co.'s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV.

Perry, a conservative Christian who opposes abortion and stem-cell research using embryonic cells, counts on the religious right for his political base. But he has said the cervical cancer vaccine is no different from the one that protects children against polio.

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   I'd like to add that the polio vaccine isn't protecting anyone! Remember when Salk was practically canonized for "curing" polio? In reality, all they did was change the definition of polio to make it look like it had been "cured". The people who are getting polio now are the ones receiving the vaccine for it. Check out this site:
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/polio1.html


 
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Posted On Feb 02, 2007
I'm ashamed to say that I always supported Rick Perry. I'm from Texas and I used to think he was a decent governor until this. To not take a controversial issue like this to be debated, especially when media outlets were just about to report that the safety of this drug is still yet to be determined, well that's just a cryin' shame. (as we say in Texas) But to know that Perry also has several ties to Merk, well then his actions aren't just a cryin shame, but a lyin' shame.


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Posted On Feb 02, 2007
Hello Ajax,

I'm Aunty Doris.  Thank you for  bringing this article to everyones attention.  I read the full article several hours ago and hoped that it would not be a done deal.  Guess I was wrong.  I had posted my comment a short while ago.

Thanks again.


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Posted On Feb 03, 2007
The very God-like position that Gov. Perry has taken is deplorable in that he has undermined the parenting authority for all children in that state, whose future wellness will hence be compromised. People who play God by mandating vaccines have eroded and are eroding freedom of choice for parents and children alike.  The asssumption is that one size fits all, and that they are "The Deciders".  And what about the boys and men who help spread the virus?  Will they too succumb to such bullying?  Follow the money...that's the real story.  Pharm companies don't sell to people who are well, and who take responsibility for their own wellness.  Once again, scare tactics under the guise of "prevention" trumps freedom of information and truth.  A very frightening state of affairs, I must say.


Russ Bianchi
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Posted On Feb 03, 2007
I hope Gov. Rick Perry's DAUGHTER(s) (if he has any) or niece(s) or grand-daughter(s) or other females in his immediate family and among his immediate staff and campaign supporters are the FIRST in line for these DANGEROUS and UNNECESSARY drugs.  Yeah right....and I have a bridge to sell you also...


Andee
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Posted On Feb 04, 2007
Isn't this closely related to Communism...we are told what to do or else we we can't do something...............yes, you can do something!  Pull your child out of these awful schools, get an attorney if you can afford one, you do have legal rights and they cannot vaccinate against your will a minor child. 

I too hope the Governor has young girls in his midst that will be forced into this fraudulent vaccine as so many other have been fraudulent.

Remember the flu epidemic that killed so many in America, what 60 plus ago...that was started by our own government..........what do you want to bet they are behind Aids and the bird flu too.


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Posted On Feb 05, 2007
I find it absolutely amazing that the Gov. A devout conservative christian, has the audacity to push this bill through without allowing the legislature to give it an up or down vote. I find highly suspect that some his backers are from the Merck corp. To hell with what is good for the people of Texas.

I guess Jesus is very important to him, except when campaign contributions are at risk.


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Posted On Feb 06, 2007
This free e-book from the International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) is now available to anyone who wants to read about the dangers of vaccines and pediatric medical practices. This e-book is titled "The Terror of Pediatric Medicine" and as Mark Sircus Ac, OMD said "by the time you finish reading this book, you will understand the title."
This is an updated version of his remarkable and widely distributed mini-book: "Cry of the Heart" and how today's practices in pediatric medicine are putting our children in harm's way to an extent deplorable in today's changing world. Its crucial to stay fully informed as the vaccine schedules increase the numbers of recommended vaccines, and as attempts are made to literally force them on all children. The new book covers in-depth the vaccine controversy, pediatric dentistry, oncology as well as childhood psychiatry and psychology. The book format is in beautiful html and offers us hope and solutions for a world of medicine gone mad and is especially timely considering the recent information on the state legislators, backed heavily by the pharmaceutical companies and political groups, who are attempting and suceeding in making mandatory the new and unproven HPV vaccine against cervical cancer for all girls at age 11.
Link to the free e-book download: http://www.imva.info/books.shtml

 
 
 
Posted On Feb 02, 2007
Thank goodness my children are in their mid-to upper thirtys.  As a certified organic consumer in everyway, I would be a stress-out-parent.  I do feel great compassion for those parents who have younger children and may be forced to have their children (child) be injected with this dangerous drug.   I am a certified vegan and live a healthy life style, and so do my children.  We are very upset with all conventional means, and hope, some day soon, a group of people will do something about this corruption.

Dr. Mercola, have you ever thought about running for office?  Even on a local level? 

 
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Posted On Feb 03, 2007
It's Official, the UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMOR, with no empirical data to back it up, to DRAFT Dr. Joseph Mercola For US President started here!!!

Bumper Sticker?  MERCOLA: A Weapon Of Indisputable Truth


Andee
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Posted On Feb 04, 2007
Yep, Dr. should run for President or find a way to become our Surgeon General..then maybe Americans could feel a whole lot safer and a heck of a lot more respected for being human!

Apathetic Americans are sealing our doom...it is those that read this fine man's articles that should be out spreading the word to read, read and read more.............we are on our way to certain doom.....if we don't get off our backsides and start fighting the government and big Rx companies with a passion that is unequaled..then there are about fifty other missions for us to take on...has anyone heard that the government is to serve us, not we serve them...how many realize the latter is where we are at?

 
 
 
Posted On Feb 03, 2007
I had a feeling when I first started seeing the TV ads about HPV (the "Tell someone" campaign) and saw Merck's name on the screen, that a push for an HPV vaccine couldn't be far behind.  I have to thank one of my college economics professors (a Libertarian), who used to always tell us, "Always ask yourself, 'Who benefits?'" 

Ever since then, whenever I hear or read the words "Due to a recent study..." (or something along those lines), I ask, "Who paid for the study?"

 
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Posted On Feb 04, 2007
Of course, we with a brain and we that keep up with this fine Dr., know whom paid for these studies and that makes them biased or is the word I am looking for fraudulent?



 
 
 
Posted On Feb 03, 2007
How sad that a relatively conservative governor has chosen this route. I suppose his lead will be followed by other states.

This reminds me of when my high school girls were in sixth grade. They attended the most religiously conservative school possible in SC and yet they were required to get a series of 3 hepatitis shots--the kind of hepatitis that is transmitted primarily by sexual conduct. I couldn't believe the incongruity of learning strong moral values in Bible class and yet this same school requiring the hepatitis vaccine. I'm pretty sure my girls were the only ones who did not visit the trailer sent form the health department to the campus of the school. Several students from those years subsequently developed "epilepsy." The level of ignorance is just astounding to me even in an educated and very religious community.

 
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Posted On Feb 03, 2007
Mom-o-6,

Ignorance is the one thing that prospers on both sides of the aisle…it is completely bi-partisan.

 
 
 
 
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