Rick Perry Declares ‘I Hate Cancer’ While Gutting Cancer Screening Funding For Nearly 180,000 Women

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Upon entering the race for the GOP presidential bid, Texas Gov. Rick Perry immediately got walloped for his executive order to have girls vaccinated against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), “the most common sexually transmitted virus in the United States” that can lead to cervical cancer. Fending off competitor Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) misguided attacks against the HPV vaccine at a GOP debate last month, Perry defended himself with, “I hate cancer.” “Cervical cancer is caused by HPV. We wanted to bring that to the attention of these ten of thousands of young people in our state,” he said. “At the end of the day, I will always err on the side of saving lives.”

However, Perry’s actions in Texas tell a different story. This summer, he signed a budget into law that eviscerates state support for cervical cancer screenings by gutting family planning funding by nearly 66 percent. The move, he brags, nearly defunds Planned Parenthood — a women’s health organization that “provides four times more cervical cancer screenings every year in Texas than abortions”:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/10/17/345392/rick-perry-declares-i-hate-cancer-while-gutting-cancer-screening-funding-for-nearly-180000-women/