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Rick Perry: “And at the end of the day, this was about trying to stop a cancer and giving the parental option to opt out of that. And…”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
And at the end of the day, this was about trying to stop a cancer and giving the parental option to opt out of that. And at the end of the day -- you may criticize me about the way that I went about it, but at the end of the day, I am always going to err on the side of life.
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Rick Perry

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Perry defends his executive order on the HPV vaccine, emphasizing the importance of preventing cancer and allowing parental choice.

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