Check out the video - Frank Kloucek on video talking about Ridgefield
My friend Todd Epp has Frank Kloucek on Video over at SD Watch talking about his pursuit of the SDFU on the Ridgefield matter.
It's about health, not potential promiscuity.
As the only South Dakota blogger out with 5 daughters, I feel I need to weigh in on the whole discussion that's occurring with regards to the HPV vaccine, and Governor Rounds' proposal to make it available. My family (including my three oldest girls) watched my mom, their grandmother, succumb slowly and painfully to cancer which spread throughout her body. If a similar fate from a different type of cancer was preventable through a simple shot, why wouldn't anyone advocate for it? At the age most of my kids are going to be getting it, they're still playing with barbies, and negative influences such as most of the programming on MTV, and other assorted trashy television is verboten in my house. All they're going to know about this vaccination is that it's a shot, just like for teatnus or measles. They'll go "Ow, I don't want a shot," and that will be it. Just another mark on their vaccination record. One check box for DPT, one for HPV, and so on...
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He is the best representative the Farmers Union has ever had.
Has one of these programs every been challenged in court?
The mushroom checkoff program was ruled impermissible compelled speech while the beef program was considered government speech and thus not violative of the first amendment as compelled speech. There is little difference between the two programs though the government was able to convince the the court that the money was used to fund a number of projects in addition to advertising (though I think this claim is a bit over-stated).