The recent measles outbreak, centered around California and spreading along the west coast , has brought up the topic of a parent’s choice of vaccinating or not vaccinating one’s children. A recent infection spread through Disneyland pushed the infected total to 170 in the United States, but the cause has been accredited to the anti-vaccines movement.
The movement followed a study published in The Lancelet, by Dr. Andrew Wakefield  (who was later found to have falsified the evidence ), which claims that vaccines cause autism. Those in the movement also claim that it is their own personal right to decide whether they vaccinate their children or not. Other reasons in the movement have been scientifically disproved. [TS-VCSC-Content-Flip flip_style=”style1″ flip_effect_style1=”horizontal” flip_effect_style2=”ts-flip-right” flip_effect_speed=”medium” flip_size_auto=”true” flip_size=”200″ front_html=”false” back_html=”false” back_content=”“When it’s a public health care concern and when dozens of kids are getting this thing that we created a vaccine to prevent and some parents are too ignorant to give their kids vaccines, I think that’s wrong.”
” read_more_link=”false” read_more_txt=”Read More” read_more_target=”_parent” front_icon_replace=”true” front_image=”271927″ front_image_full=”true” front_icon_size=”512″ flip_border_thick=”1″ front_icon_frame_thick=”1″ front_padding=”false” front_icon_padding=”0″ front_icon_color=”#cccccc” front_icon_frame_color=”#000000″ flip_border_color_front=”#dddddd” back_color=”#ffffff” back_color_title=”#ffffff” back_background=”#1f8218″ flip_border_color_back=”#dddddd” read_more_color=”#000000″ read_more_background=”#dddddd” animations=”false” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ back_title=”Chase Ford, Sophomore” front_color=”#000000″ front_color_title=”#000000″ front_background=”#ffffff”][TS-VCSC-Content-Flip flip_style=”style1″ flip_effect_style1=”horizontal” flip_effect_style2=”ts-flip-right” flip_effect_speed=”medium” flip_size_auto=”true” flip_size=”200″ front_html=”false” back_html=”false” back_content=”“I know that people think that there’s the religious right not to vaccinate, but it’s also their responsibility to keep the public safe. If you don’t want to interfere with vaccinations and your child being given a vaccination, you need to figure out an alternative to keep them from getting sick and other people from getting sick.”
” read_more_link=”false” read_more_txt=”Read More” read_more_target=”_parent” front_icon_replace=”true” front_image=”271926″ front_image_full=”true” front_icon_size=”70″ flip_border_thick=”1″ front_icon_frame_thick=”1″ front_padding=”false” front_icon_padding=”0″ front_icon_color=”#cccccc” front_icon_frame_color=”#000000″ flip_border_color_front=”#dddddd” back_color=”#ffffff” back_color_title=”#ffffff” back_background=”#1f8218″ flip_border_color_back=”#dddddd” read_more_color=”#000000″ read_more_background=”#dddddd” animations=”false” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ back_title=”Ilinca Popescu, Freshman” front_color=”#000000″ front_color_title=”#000000″ front_background=”#ffffff”][TS-VCSC-Content-Flip flip_style=”style1″ flip_effect_style1=”horizontal” flip_effect_style2=”ts-flip-right” flip_effect_speed=”medium” flip_size_auto=”true” flip_size=”200″ front_html=”false” back_html=”false” back_content=”“It’s more of a sacrifice for the common good, like to vaccinate your own child, and it’s beneficial to the whole community, whereas if you don’t, it could harm other people, like the measles outbreak.”” read_more_link=”false” read_more_txt=”Read More” read_more_target=”_parent” front_icon_replace=”true” front_image=”271928″ front_image_full=”true” front_icon_size=”70″ flip_border_thick=”1″ front_icon_frame_thick=”1″ front_padding=”false” front_icon_padding=”0″ front_icon_color=”#cccccc” front_icon_frame_color=”#000000″ flip_border_color_front=”#dddddd” back_color=”#ffffff” back_color_title=”#ffffff” back_background=”#1f8218″ flip_border_color_back=”#dddddd” read_more_color=”#000000″ read_more_background=”#dddddd” animations=”false” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ front_color=”#000000″ front_color_title=”#000000″ front_background=”#ffffff” back_title=”Brandon Goins, Junior”][TS-VCSC-Content-Flip flip_style=”style1″ flip_effect_style1=”horizontal” flip_effect_style2=”ts-flip-right” flip_effect_speed=”medium” flip_size_auto=”true” flip_size=”200″ front_html=”false” back_title=”Clarissa Curry, Senior” back_html=”false” back_content=”“I believe people should have the right to or to not vaccinate their children. My parents chose to vaccinate me later than what some doctors would consider advisable, but I do think that as a general rule, unless there’s some major health issue, that parents should choose to vaccinate their children.”
” read_more_link=”false” read_more_txt=”Read More” read_more_target=”_parent” front_icon_replace=”true” front_image=”271929″ front_image_full=”true” front_icon_size=”70″ flip_border_thick=”1″ front_icon_frame_thick=”1″ front_padding=”false” front_icon_padding=”0″ front_icon_frame_color=”#000000″ flip_border_color_front=”#dddddd” back_color=”#ffffff” back_color_title=”#ffffff” back_background=”#1f8218″ flip_border_color_back=”#dddddd” read_more_color=”#000000″ read_more_background=”#dddddd” animations=”false” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″]By Kristine Cho
Should it be okay for parents to not to vaccinate their children? What do you think?