Rally in Cumberland over HPV vaccine mandate

Parents and students gather in Cumberland Monday. Holding signs and voicing frustration over the recent hpv vaccine mandate for all students entering 7th grade. Parents are concerned there's a lack of research and information about the side effects of this vaccine.
Parents like Michelle Rennick, she tells us her daughter got the shot 5 years ago, and it's been a living hell ever since.
 
"A few days after she got the vaccine she woke up and she couldn't stand. That was the beginning of a big down hill battle. If I had known I would have never gotten this vaccine for my child," says Rennick.
 
The Director of the State Department of health says, based on information from the CDC, the serious side effects include, nausea, headaches and fainting. Not those experienced by Michelle Rennick's daughter.
 
 
"Our overall numbers have shown with the 67 million doses that have been given, thankfully those type of reactions are not common at all,"says Dr. Nicole Alexander Scott, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health.
 
Side effects aren't the only problem for parents, they feel like their parental rights are being stripped away.
 
"It should be a parent's choice, once they do their homework it should be up to us whether we want that to enter our child's body and risk the outcome," Says a concerned parent.

Doctor Scott says, this vaccine can prevent children from getting cancer later in life, and the timing of this shot is crucial.

"one of two reasons for giving the vaccine at 11–12 years of age is because the immune system of a child at that age is more responsive and it makes the vaccine even that more effective,"adds Doctor Scott