Would you refuse to vaccinate your child?

Question

(or do you already refuse?)
If you found out that certain vaccines actually are harmful and have irreversible effects, for example I read that the poolio vac. is linked to autism. Not only that! this article informed me of how this same vac. is what cause the AIDS outbreak in Africa back in the days, apparently the monkey they used to make the vac. had some blood that was "bad" and it backfired on humanity. How sad.

Answer 1

It is generally illegal to refuse basic vaccinations for a child.

Modern vaccination policies only allow exemptions for people who have compromised immune systems, allergies to the components used in vaccinations or strongly-held objections

Your child will not be able to go to a public school if he/she is not vaccinated.

Answer 2

I can't believe some of these answers and these people who are trying to make you feel bad for asking the question. First of all, the government does NOT always know what is best (remember when they required a vaccine for Rotovirus and it wound up killing and making lots of kids ill? They later removed the Rotovirus vaccine from the public. There was also a time not many years ago when they gave a oral polio vaccine that infact was still a live virus & ould be passed on to older people who naturally had aquired polio - essentially giving them the disease again!).. Second, it is NOT illegal for you to refuse immunizations for your child, nor can he/she be kept out of school for not having them. If you refuse them, you would just have to have a notorized waiver from your state saying you waive vacines for religious, physical or moral objections (& that waiver states you accept the risks associated with refusing vacines).

That said, I feel most vaccines are really safe and the benefits outweigh the risks. I do not think there really is a correlation between vaccines & autism as once thought. If there is/was, it had to do with the preservative of the vaccine and it has since been replaced with something else.
I know several people who do not vaccinate at all or selectively vaccinate, this includes a doctors three children. EVERYTHING has a risk, but I believe the vaccine risks are relatively small.
I did do delayed vaccination with my children and for good reason. Nowdays, when you give birth, they want to shoot your newborn up with Hepatitis B vaccine before it even leaves the hospital. The problem with that is that a newborn has a very immature immune system and they infject it in the leg and send it home. Guess what happens to a baby after a immunization shot? It develops pain, swelling and a FEVER! Well, I was Hepatitis B negative. You know how a kid would contract Hep. B? Either from sex or IV drug use. There are few things in life I can guarantee but my newborn not having sex or using drugs is one of them. Since I'm, Hep.B negative I knew I wouldn't pass along the virus via breastmilk, I waited until both kids were 3 months old to start the vaccine (it's a 3 series shot). That way, if they developed a problem, there body was more capable to fight off infection or I could safely give them Tylenol for pain and fever.
Also, I've known people to refuse the chickenpox vaccine because natural immunity from getting the outbreak lasts a life time whereas the shot may not last longer than 10 years (I'm not saying that is fact, I'm saying lots of research is showing that's the case - I'm not 100% sure). Anyway, chicken pox is s lot harder to deal with as an adult or teen so many people want their 4 yr old to get it and be forever immune naturally.

So I don't know what else to tell you except please don't really take medical advice from people on here. A lot of what I read on this site is just peoples misinformed opinions.I even have a medical degree but you don't know me or what I'm saying is true (it is, but you have no way of knowing that). The best advice I can give you is to ask your medical professional or pediatrician the pros and cons of vaccinating and do scientific research on real medical websites or on a college campus and decide what is best for you and your child.

Answer 3

I like other parents also put ALL of my trust in the government. hen I started researching on my own. Dont listen to others, do your OWN research. Its YOUR children and only YOU can protect your own child. The CDC is ran by corporations that sell drugs for profit. In the buisness world, Money is all that matters.

http://www.cdcfoundation.org/partners/corporations/index.aspx


In 2004 An AUTISM A.L.E.R.T. has been sent to pediatricians by several organizations including the CDC
and the American Academy of Pediatrics:

1 out of 6 children are diagnosed with a developmental disorder
and/or behavioral problem and that 1 in 166 children are diagnosed with an autism spectrum
disorder.

http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/health/Autism%20downloads/AutismAlarm.pdf


1 out of 6 children in the USA, I would say this is a crisis.



This graph shows the decline in five infectious diseases from 1900 up until 1965, also indicating the years when various vaccines were introduced into public use.

http://www.healthsentinel.com/graphs.php?id=14&event=graphs_print_list_item


Mumps Epidemic Hits Iowa in 2006.

83% who contacted mumps had been Vaccinated.

Iowa's public health department reports that the vaccination records of 163 mumps patients have been investigated.

Of those patients, more than two-thirds (68%) had gotten two doses of the MMR vaccine, 13% had gotten one dose, 5% had gotten no doses, and 15% had uncertain vaccine status, states the CDC.

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/120/113902.htm

Answer 4

First of all, the supposed "link" between the polio vaccine and autism is nothing more than a biased study done by crazed parents. I don't know what article you read, but vaccines aren't made by monkeys. You cannot get AIDS from vaccines. The so-called "live" polio virus vaccine is not really live. It is irradiated, so no...you will not get polio from the vaccine. Anyone that tells you that is wrong. I am so angry that a parent would not only do that to there child, but also put my child at risk of catching a preventable illness due to their own pseudo-intellectual beliefs. No vaccine has irreversible effects. I would like to know who's feeding you that line of crap.

Answer 5

Ok, I want to congratulate you on opening your eyes and questioning things!! I don't think all vaccines are bad, but most are not good and still have mercury in them and a preservative called thimerosal that is harmful. Go to the link below to stay informed, and there are links to find out what the laws are in your state. This is a site that provides articles from renowned papers and magazines across the country so it's not just some conspiracy theorist that writes this stuff. Most states have informed consent and you can simply say that it is against your personal beliefs. Some states require religious beliefs to be exempt from vaccines.
My advice to all the people who answered this who want to blindly believe what we're told and not ever question anything is to FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL!!!! The pharmecuetical companies are making millions on vaccines. If they weren't harmful, why are the pharm companies lobbying the government to ban civil lawsuits against negative effects? That is just d*&mn fishy to me.

Oh, and most diseases they vaccinate for are treatable and not deadly anyway.

Answer 6

Not just the polio vaccine rather a chemical they use that is a preservative that causes autism in all vaccines. Yes, it is very sad but it's worse to have these diseases. If a few children did not get vaccinated it would not be a problem but if everyone stopped getting vaccines we would have an epidimic of all sorts of diseases. You have to weigh the odds.

Answer 7

One. The link between the MMR vaccination and autism is tenuous at best. It is possible to have the single vaccinations if so so wish.

Try this link. The information in it is supplied by the British Department of Health, so it does depend on how much you trust governments.

Answer 8

I've had to make this decision twice. Researched it and came to the conclusion that the risk of the vaccine being harmful is alot less than the risk of the disease being harmful if the child might catch it. If everyone stopped vaccinating their children we'd have to deal with our kids getting ill and dying from alot of 'preventable' diseases, like measles, polio etc. Epidemics start when people stop vaccinating children from these easily spreadable diseases. There is no 100% proof that the vaccines are harmful but we know the diseases are, the statistics are defiantly in the favor of vaccinating our kids. It is a personal choice but i had both my kids vaccinated, they had no side affects and now we have peace of mind that they cant get one of these horrid diseases.

Answer 9

the pro's of the vaccine outweigh the cons. ...it is scary though because you want to do what's best for your child.

btw..polo is harmful and irreversible.

it's the children that don't get vaccinated that bring dangerous illness into classrooms. i work at a hospital and just last week a class was exposed to a very dangerous/deadly virus from a child that came here from another country (wasn't vaccinated)....the kids that were vaccinated are fine..the ones that weren't.....

there's always a risk. i had the same thoughts/worries 16 years ago. i had both my daughters vaccinated.

Answer 10

I refused to vaccinate my son because he had really bad asthma as an infant.

He then became "behind" on his vaccinations & but his doc was a great lady who totally understood the situation.

As for polio vaccine, only have you child injected with the dead/killed virus. You child will still have immunity without the chance of possible infection. Never take the ingestible one!

Answer 11

Since the benefits of having your child vaccinated FAR outweigh the risks, yes, I do (and will continue to) have my child immunized. Certain illnesses can actually kill a child if they contract them.

Having an epidural could have left me with a limp, partially paralyzed or fully paralyzed for the rest of my life, but I had one becuase the risks of something like that happening are miniscule...just as the risks of autism, AIDS, etc. are miniscule.