A group of families in the Dallas area has banded together to fight Texas Governor Rick Perry's executive order to force all school kids entering the sixth grade in 2008 to be required to get the HPV vaccinations.

The parents filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Texas Governor Rick Perry's executive order. First, the lawsuit challenges Perry's authority to have issued the order on his own merit. Secondly, the lawsuit requests that all state funds be blocked until the contested situation is resolved

The drug manufacturer of the controversial Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine, Merck & Co., Inc., announced Tuesday that they will stop their push to lobby the U.S. to make it a requirement for schoolgirls aged 9 and older.

Merck made the decision to reconsider their lobbying efforts after the outrage by many parents and conservative groups to the recent decision of Texas Governor Rick Perry. The Texas governor had mandated that the vaccine would be required for all school-aged girls entering the sixth grade in 2008 in his state

Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry signed an executive order on Friday to require all middle school girls entering 6th grade (aged 11 and 12) in Texas to receive the new HPV (sexually transmitted disease) vaccination. The vaccination claims to prevent the disease, which can cause cervical cancer.

Perry claims that authorizing this HPV vaccine is no different than past legislation that requires all children to have the polio vaccine, according to CNN

Beginning September 2008, all schoolgirls in Texas would be required to get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. The order was passed Friday by Republican Gov. Rick Perry thus making Texas the first state to pass such an order amid criticism by conservatives and parents.

The anti-supporters of the vaccination program in Legislation fear such a requirement would forgive premarital sex and interfere with the ethics and morals of the children

The American Cancer Society released new guidelines for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which do not include a recommendation for vaccinations over age 18.

The ACS recommendations called for girls aged 11 to 12 to be routinely vaccinated. Girls as young as 9 can be vaccinated as well. The guidelines also said that women ages 13 to 18 should also receive a follow up vaccine if they were never vaccinated for did not get all three shots