Pro-Family Groups Pressure Merck to Stop Lobbing Lawmakers

Merck & Co. announced that it will back off efforts to persuade state lawmakers to turn 6th grade girls into guinea pigs who receive 3 doses of Gardasil—Merck’s HPV vaccine. In addition to Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry’s Executive Order mandating the vaccine, bills requiring the vaccine for school attendance have popped up in 20 state legislatures—but not one has passed yet.