Do You Think Childhood Vaccinations Should Be Compulsory?

[BellyBelly]

I personally think compulsory vaccination is a huge violation of human rights. We have choice, we deserve them. Who knows what they are going to put in those vaccines, and they already have loads of problems with quality testing and assurance - imagine if that flu vaccine that was giving babies all those convulsions etc happened to all our babies on a mass scale? This is just so so so very wrong. I'll be fighting this one thick and thin.

[miss.cinders]

I personally think compulsory vaccination is a huge violation of human rights. We have choice, we deserve them. Who knows what they are going to put in those vaccines, and they already have loads of problems with quality testing and assurance - imagine if that flu vaccine that was giving babies all those convulsions etc happened to all our babies on a mass scale? This is just so so so very wrong. I'll be fighting this one thick and thin.

Couldn't have said it better myslef. 100% agree.

[Bathsheba]

Interesting comment Epacris I like hearing lots of viewpoints! Oh and BTW i prefer wearing seat belts too LOL that was just part of an analogy to explain how something can have incidences of tragedy after use but is statistically safer for the majority. But i still don't think it would be wise to legislate for compulsory vaccination although the word "compulsory" when used by the government is sometimes pretty flexible in reality. It is "compulsory" for a child to attend school.... but we all know that lots of families home school for instance. People hate the word "compulsory"... it just gets everyone's hackles up.... like any strongly emotion laden word does... I reckon it should be compulsory to avoid using the word "compulsory" when referring to the general public! Unless you are living in a dictatorship there are usually ways and means around things to accomodate common sense.