Minimum 150 words per post. Learners must make at least two posts by 11:59 PM on Sundays that directly respond to other posts.
1. This post should be addressed to Cindy Hurt
Having children comes with different kinds of responsibilities. One thing parents have to do is get their children vaccinated. There are still many parents that refuse to let their children have shots. Meanwhile, the number of diseases are rising because of children not vaccinated. I personally feel like they should be made to get the immunizations. Innocent lives are being put at risk. I hear the excuse that autism is caused by vaccines. According to Kirkland (2012), millions of federal dollars were spent on research to see if there was a link between shots and autism. Scientist seemed convinced there was not a connection between the two. However, to this day some people still use that as an excuse not to get them.
Children should have the immunizations before they go to school or college. People hide behind religious exemptions to keep from getting shots. I feel like it is overused and there should be no exemption. I used to be in charge with keeping up with immunizations for a university, and the religious exemption came into play a lot. Sometimes I felt like they just did not want to do it. According to Grey (2014), people are still arguing over whether the first amendment should be used to protect student’s religious rights on exemptions. I can see where people argue over religion in schools, but I do not understand how people want to get out of shots and insurance by taking a religious exemption.
Influenza shots are not mandatory at this point, but I feel like they could be in the future. According to Kamradt-Scott (2012), influenza has been around for centuries and is not going anywhere. It does not matter how old a person is. They can still be infected. Hospitals and doctor’s offices make it mandatory for there employees. Doctors highly suggest their patients get them.
2. This post should be addressed to Michael Brewer:
We as parents have human rights to exercise freedom of conscience and informed consent to medical risks taking on our minor children, and children do have the civil right to school education.There are risks in vaccines that are being borne equally by all, the laws with vaccines are without a flexible medical, religious and conscientious belief exemptions are oppressive, inhumane and a violation of one’s civil and human rights.
As research has shown, vaccines are basically pharmaceutical products that can carry a risk of injury or death.In some children there are genetic, biological and environmental high risks factors that make some more susceptible to vaccine harm, this was acknowledged by Congress in 1986, in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act to shield manufacturers from a civil liability.There is no way for the parent, or the doctors to know who will be injured due to the long standing gaps in science today.
Freedom of Speech and Press,in the Constitution gives anyone the right to exercise freedom of conscience and religious beliefs, this even includes rather to take a vaccine or not because of the medical risks or injuries it could cause to the person, this has been a centerpiece of the ethical practice of modern medicine.
In 1905 the Supreme Court affirmed the constitutional authority of the state legislatures to require smallpox vaccination during “an epidemic of disease,” the Court sent out a warning against that vaccine to mandate it should not go beyond “what was reasonably required for the safety of the public” and would lead to an “injustice, oppression or absurd consequence” or be “cruel and inhuman to the last degree.”
A century later, after Supreme Court had done there thing, the mandate for one dose of smallpox vaccine has been replaced by a federal directive that children get 69 doses of 16 vaccines on the day of birth, with 49 dosed of 14 vaccine will be given by the time the child is 6 years old.State legislatures have mandated multiple doses of at least 10 of these vaccines for children, but many of them are for diseases that may or may not have a high complication and mortality rate like smallpox, not wide spread, or are not transmitted in a public setting.
New vaccines are being developed and mandated every day.Vaccine mandates are still lacking on informed consent protections that should be repealed.
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