At an event in Sheldon, Iowa on Monday night Bachmann took a question from a supporter about her previous remarks concerning the Gardasil vaccine.
The supporter, Julie Weppler, has a daughter named Jessica who is unable to attend school because of various physical ailments. Weppler thanked Bachmann for bringing the issue to national attention.
“Parents have to make that decision for their kids because it isn’t the schools that are going to follow up with Jessica,” Bachmann said. “It isn’t the schools that live with Jessica every day. It’s Jessica who’s having to have her body live with the ravages of this vaccine.”
Bachmann continued on to decry Perry’s former chief of staff, Mike Toomey, who lobbied for Merck, the company that produces the vaccine. “And that’s a very big issue, and we can’t sacrifice the health of even one child on the altar (for) profits for some big drug company,” she said.
