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 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - As lawmakers prepare to debate an override of the governor's order that schoolgirls be inoculated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, a group of legislators wants the state to produce a brochure about the vaccine.
"We want families to know the facts," said state Rep. Dennis Bonnen, a Republican. "No one here is against a family studying the facts for themselves and deciding this is the right thing to do. ... What we don't want to do is tell them that we know better than them."
Bonnen is co-sponsoring a bill that would direct the state to produce and distribute informational materials about vaccines against the human papillomavirus, or HPV. The brochure would be distributed at doctor's offices, health clinics and hospitals.
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