Childhood Vaccines: Anti-vax V Science?

[TruTexan]

I like this signature line on one of the member's of our site.............................Are you Educated or Indoctrinated????
Debate debate debate coming.


I do have a question to those that choose NOT to vaccinate your children....


Would you put YOUR child in a room of with smallpox, measles, mumps, rubella, or any other diseases you can be vaccinated for?
Why not? Apparently, you don't think they can die from them? hmmmm......
something to ponder isn't it? But when you choose NOT to vaccinate you are putting your children at high risk, along with general public, to spread disease when you contract it because you choose NOT to vaccinate. Just my opinion and I choose to have one very loudly when it comes to this topic.
If you say NO, you wouldn't choose to put your child at risk in a room of those type diseases, then why do you choose to PUT others at risk because your child isn't vaccinated? SMDH

[MsTinkerbelly]

When i was a child, i had friend with a Mother in an iron lung from contracting Polio, as well as a teacher who used crutches and leg braces. Those things burned deeply into my childhood memories, and made me grateful that we no longer lived in the past.

I honestly can't understand anyone that would put their children at risk for disfigurement, sterility (mumps in males), death, pain, etc... However i do get the American outlook that laws apply to everyone but them, and it can't possibly happen to me/mine.

[Corkey]

I had the mumps, I had chicken pox, I was vaccinated against measels, and polio, but not German measels. When you* the parent do not vaccinate your child and allow them into the world you are placing other kids at risk, and you don't have a right to do that. As the saying goes, your rights end at the beginning of another's nose. Diseases don't discriminate, they will attack anyone who isn't vaccinated, most are highly contagious, so when you put others at risk you are, in my view, committing an assault. I am allergic to many medicines, there are many kids who because their immune systems are compromised either by cancer or some other disease, you are putting them at risk. There is no credible science that says these vaccinations cause any autism on any spectrum. Notice the word credible. So when ones parental fear over giving their kid a scientifically proven credible effective vaccine interfears with other peoples right at a healthy life, then their fear is a cop out.
My .10 adjusted for inflation.

[cricket26]

Immunizations, like any medication, can cause side effects. However, a decision not to immunize a child also involves risk. It is a decision to put
the child and others who come into contact with him or her at risk of contracting a disease that could be dangerous or deadly. Consider measles. One out of 17 children with measles gets pneumonia. For every 1,000 children who get the disease, one or two will die from it. Thanks to vaccines, we have few cases of measles in the U.S. today. However, the disease is extremely contagious, and each year dozens of cases are imported from abroad into the U.S., threatening the health of people who have not been vaccinated and those for whom the vaccine was not effective. Unvaccinated children are also at risk from meningitis (swelling of the lining of the brain) caused by Hib (a severe bacterial infection), bloodstream infections caused by pneumococcus, deafness caused by mumps, and liver cancer caused by hepatitis B virus.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/dow.../f_vacsafe.pdf

[Allison W]

I just found this while poking around at random on the Intarwebs, but, relevant.

[TruTexan]

what they say is right for me and mine. I don't have any reason NOT to vaccinate a child. And I personally wouldn't put MY child at risk or anyone elses for that matter.