"Where parental consent is required, health workers should allow older children and adolescents to provide assent to the vaccination," the document states.
Baum Hedlund attorneys and co-counsel, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman of Children’s Health Defense, filed the complaint on behalf of 22-year-old Ashley Dalton, who continues to suffer from a wide range of debilitating health issues years after receiving the Gardasil vaccine.
Birth rates in the U.S. started their decline in 2006 — the same year the CDC recommended every American girl between the ages of 9 and 26 get Merck’s Gardasil HPV vaccine.
