By TVC Exec Director Andrea Lafferty: Merck, the giant drug company, has come under fire in recent weeks over its lobbying efforts to have their drug, Gardasil, forced upon public school girls throughout the nation. Merck, the giant drug company, has come under fire in recent weeks over its lobbying efforts to have their drug, Gardasil, forced upon public school girls throughout the nation. TVC is calling upon the Department of Justice to investigate the behind-the-scenes scheming that Merck has done to influence the votes of state legislators to push mandates of this drug on girls. If this isn’t the sort of activity which interstate commerce regulation and federal racketeering statutes were designed to prohibit -- what is?
The public outcry has gotten so loud that Merck announced on Feb. 20 that it would stop its lobbying campaign to persuade state legislatures to mandate this HPV vaccine for all girls as young as nine years old. It was doing much of its lobbying through an organization called Women in Government. This decision to stop lobbying for mandating this vaccine is clearly intended to put off any possible investigation of the company or the drug itself. How many politicians were influenced by political contributions by Merck? How much money has Merck dropped into the political campaigns of politicians – both Republican and Democrat – in order to buy favor in state legislatures? Clearly, having a drug mandated for grade school girls is a gold mine for Merck, who will reap billions in profits each year. [Read More]
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