Mandatory Vaccine for Children

Immunization is requiring in the United State for every school and job, especially jobs in the medical field. It is required for every child to get vaccine shots since they were little to prevent nasty disease like Hepatitis, Polio, and Pneumonococcal infection, etc. But is vaccination needed for children to get into school or is it really the parents’ choice?
I think it is the parents’ choice to have their kids vaccinate. A lot of parents are against to have their children vaccinated because some of them are worried that their children will develop reactions or infections from the vaccine. Of course the reaction are very rare and most of the time the vaccines prevent illness rather than causing illness. Some parents are against the vaccinations because of certain religions. For example, Jehovah’s witnesses are absolutely against vaccination because they believe that the vaccines are from animal’s blood injected into human so it is considering drinking blood. Even though we know these reasons are not true but it is their beliefs. So if vaccination is required for school then these children can not go to school. America would have many kids that would be home school or not get educated at all. I think vaccination should be everyone’s freedom because it is their own children’s health; they will decide which is good for their children and have the right to believe in what they believed. These children couldn’t get the vaccines but they are not going to cause other kids to get ill because other kids are already been vaccinated so why is it such a big deal to require every kids to have vaccine shots? This doesn’t mention that vaccination shot are expensive and most of the health insurance plans don’t cover immunization shots. Some people couldn’t afford for their kids to go get these kinds of shot so their kids couldn’t go to school either? These parents should have freedom to decide for their kids, not the governments.

Source: http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/Publications/Children/Vaccine.html

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