Listening to Cathy Adams, President of Texas Eagle Forum being interviewed. Says they're using fear to market this brand new, unproven vaccine. Says Cervical cancer is down 74% (don't know what time frame she's using), so it's nuts to vaccinate against something that is being so drastically reduced. Also, this is a LIVE, genetically-altered virus. So they're injecting little girls with live cancer virus. That's nice. Let's see...she said this vaccine protects against only 4 of the 100+ strains of the disease. Therefore, kids will have a false sense of security after the injections. Makes sense. The governor's current and former personnel have lobby interests in this, and the true cost for the 3-shot regimen is closer to a thousand bucks per kid. This thing just gets uglier and uglier.

Then there's this story:

Furor on Rush to Require Cervical Cancer Vaccine

Racing to embrace a new vaccine, at least 20 states are considering mandatory inoculation of young girls against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.

But a roaring backlash has some health experts worried that the proponents, including the vaccine's maker, Merck, have pushed too far too fast, potentially undermining eventual prospects for the broadest possible immunization....

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/health/17vaccine.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1171936758-9a0mOhAKpAQDnaFly7+WBA

Do you really think this is about "protecting" the children?