I'm not asking whether you agree or disagree w/ vaccinations, but do you think the government should be able to force people to receive them?
Should the govt. have the power to decide what goes into your body? Or should this be a personal decision? I know there is a medical and religious excuse to opt out of getting vaccinated (at least there is for now), but I wonder what you all think.
2006-07-03 16:24:23 · 6 answers · asked by Andrea 4 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
No they should not. America was known for it's peoples freedoms. They are shrinking more and more every day. I don't want the government telling me I have to put something in my body if I don't want to.
2006-07-03 16:28:37 · answer #1 · answered by anonymousenlightenedgirl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they should. Looking at it from a population-wellfare kind of view, the govt. needs to make sure all of the people are safe or at least somewhat protected against diseases that could turn into epidemics and eventually wipe out everyone. Not only that, but some people don't have enough sense or education to know how important it is to be vaccinated. The govt. needs to look out for those people even if there is a minority who thinks vaccines are overrated or whatnot. The govt. has to choose what to do based on the wellfare of the majority, not the naive idealism of some.
2006-07-03 16:30:41 · answer #2 · answered by Dulie Woolie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It already is mandated.
Probably, yes, we should. This is an interesting argument, and it is going to heat up more soon. If you are sexually active, you already have the Human Papilloma Virus. They detect its activity in a Pap smear. You don't need a pap smear when you're a virgin. About the only way you don't get it is virgin marrying virgin. This virus causes a tremendous increase in the cervical cancer rate. They have a vaccine for it now, and you're about to see the fight begin.
I am going to take my daughter (16 and not sexually active) and my son (13 and also not sexually active) in to get the vaccine. They may not sleep around, given their personalities I doubt they will, but even if they stay virgins until they are married (possible but not statistically likely) their partner would in all likelihood be carrying the virus from a previous sexual encounter. I'm protecting my kids, not the other people they will be with. My daughter will be forever protected from HPV even if her future husband carries it.
We need, as a society, to mandate the HPV. I don't want my daughter getting cervical cancer because her future husband once had sex with a girlfriend who had sex with a boy who had sex with.....you get the idea. The idea has been brought up to make it mandatory for 5th graders, to get it before they start sexual activity and wipe out HPV. It worked for smallpox, polio, yadda, yadda, yadda. Vaccination works, that simple, sure there are the weird exceptions and disasters. Mandate it for HPV too.
2006-07-03 16:36:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question. I think that if the vaccination is against something that could potentially spread and infect/kill others - then, yes, I believe it should be mandated. It becomes an issue of what is best for the majority. I would not make it a 'federal' law but a State law, though.
Bottomline, if the illness is potentially a killer by spreading thru air/etc...then YES
2006-07-03 16:29:55 · answer #4 · answered by CJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
with the diseases plaguing every places in the world especially in the 3rd world countries, i think it is the time that government should seriously mandate vaccination.
2006-07-03 16:34:17 · answer #5 · answered by kbraner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, absolutely not.
2006-07-03 16:29:24 · answer #6 · answered by Spike Spiegel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋