How do you feel about families depriving their children of vacincations based on religious reasons?

Question

Children need to be in good health, families depriving them of that is pure selfish without any consciences and super ego's.

Answer 1

I say those parents are evil. A true loving christian parent would do everything they can to keep their children healthy.God made it our responsibility to take care of our children. That is my opinion (as a Christian) about the topic.

Answer 2

I was born before any vaccines were available. I had the measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis (whooping cough), and chicken pox. They were miserable. I remember at age 6 getting the polio vaccine and a few years later getting a small pox vaccination. I was very thankful when my children were born, that the vaccines were available and they didn't have to suffer through those illnesses. In fact by the time my youngest was of an age to get the smallpox vaccine it was no longer required because the disease had been eradicated worldwide. Just think, if the same diligence was applied to the other diseases we could also eradicate them. People who don't have their children vaccinated are endangering not only their own children but unborn children as well. If a pregnant woman gets exposed to rubella in the first trimester her child will be severely affected.

Answer 3

Religious beliefs need to be respected.

However, I'm not sure of what religion that favours a passive form of potential murder as a guarantee into the afterlife.

Children do have rights. They have the right to be alive, to an opinion, to have adults listen, to choose their own religion, to privacy, and to the best health possible.

I have read of an argument that arose where a doctor was faced with a critically ill child under the age of 10. The parents of the child were refusing a life saving blood transfusion, stating it was against their religion.

The doctor responded "It's against my religion to let the child die."

All people need to be respected, however, if a child becomes ill do to the decision of the parents. The parentscan be seen as being in violation of keeping their children safe.

If they are aware of that, then they have the choice to take advantage or not of inoculations or otherwise. And, I believe there are forms that must be filled in as to ensure the doctor isn't held accountable.

Answer 4

It's not deprivation. They are doing what they believe is best for their children. Most of the people who make the choice not to vaccinate believe that vaccines cause things like autism. Besides that, most US parents have not seen those diseases in action so they don't realize how horrible they can be. And there's the belief that vaccinated diseases are eradicated for the most part in the US so why would they need to vaccinate? It's not abuse and it's not selfish. It's simply a different point of view. I have a friend who will not vaccinate any of her children because she believes vaccines (MMR more specifically) caused autism in her oldest child. It's her right to make that choice.


EDIT: wow, I just went back through and read the answers. People want to federally mandate something like this? What's next? If a child is *recommended* to have surgery that isn't necessary but *could* be helpful should the government be allowed to mandate that as well? What about medications? Should the gov't be allowed to mandate those as well? After all, isn't a vaccine a medication? My my, what a slippery slope we are on.

Answer 5

I've been recently thinking about this not so much for religion but health purposes. There has been a lot of talk about how vaccinations may possibly cause autism. I think that some of the vaccines dosages are given on a cookie cutter basis (meaning that all children receive the same amount of dosages) although all kids are not the same weight, height etc. Also some of the vaccines are not needed in children. For example Hepatitis B is a sexually transmitted disease. Why are children getting vaccinated for that at a couple of months old?

I'm just skeptical I guess about whats in them and do our children really NEED them or is this something that can be done in a natural way.

Answer 6

well lets see....what exactly are in these vaccines?

Vaccine Ingredients

Heavy metals like mercury and aluminum

Pus from sores of diseased animals

Horse Serum

Calf Serum

Fecal Matter

Urine

Macerated Cancer Cells

Sweepings from diseased children

Other Vaccine Ingredients:

Formaldehyde (a carcinogen) - used in embalming fluids

Phenol (also a carcinogen) - may cause paralysis, convulsions, coma, and necrosis and gangrene

Lactalbumin hydrolysate - emulsifier

Aluminum phosphate - aluminum salt which is corrosive to tissues

Retro-virus (SV-40) - contaminant virus of some polio vaccines

Antibiotics - (i.e., neomycin tm) for infection

Chick Embryo - growth medium for virus

Sodium Phosphate - a buffering salt

Foreign animal tissues containing genetic material (DNA/RNA) - from growth medium

Answer 7

Vaccinations are good but how many is to much? Do you really want your kid to get injected 10 plus times with a mix of things that could have adverse reactions on them in the long run? I would just sticks with the most esstential vaccines.

Answer 8

If adults want to sacrifice themselves and their health for religious reasons, fine. But to turn a child into a martyr for their faith when the child is too young to know whether they will follow that path or not is going too far!

Answer 9

not necessarily, as there are some considerable health risks involved in vaccinations (some of which are legally mandated, but entirely unnecessary). Right now opting out for philosophical reasons (i.e. concern for the health risks to your children) is not allowed by law, so people contrive religious exemptions so that they don't have to subject their children to risky vaccines (i.e vaccines that contain mercury and other toxic substances)

Answer 10

I'm totally against the government interfering in parents raising their children, except where lives are at stake. I think that if one denies their child medical attention, they should loose custody.Mercury based shots cause autism.

Answer 11

they are NUTS.the parents probably had these vaccinations .why should they deprive their children the greatest gift of all.
LIFE.they are ignorant,selfish and not very good parents by my standards.