Texas almost mandated an HPV vaccine before politics got in the way. Now, the state has one of the country’s highest rates of cervical cancer.

The state’s approach stands in stark contrast to that of Australia, where leaders have successfully pushed a nationwide program that has made a sizable dent in cervical cancer rates. In 2007, two governments set into motion a massive public health experiment. One was the state of Texas, where lawmakers rejected a mandate to vaccinate adolescent […]