Vaccine Laws Pros And Cons

In the first article I read listed the vaccine laws for all fifty states, and the pros and cons of making it mandatory for every to get certain vaccines. Some of the pros where saving parents money in the long run if the child contracts an illness, there is a vaccine for, they protect unborn children is a mother has gotten these vaccines, and they can save children’s lives. Come of the cons are there are ingredients that are morally wrong in some cultures, the Sid effects of these vaccines can have serious of fatal side effects, and some vaccines have harmful ingredients. There is a lot of concern among parents and schools because if student are going to school with another student who is not vaccinated there can be an outbreak of a certain …show more content…
The federal government requires students entering a public school are required to have vaccines, witch vaccines are up to the state to decide. However, they cannot force everyone to get a vaccine, because it would be an infringement of one’s constitutional rights. There are laws in place stating there are three acceptations to getting a vaccine. All fifty state allow medical exemptions forty eight states allow religious exemptions from getting a vaccine and nineteen states allow philosophical exemptions from getting a vaccine. So here lies the problem, can we force a person to get a vaccine if they are allergic to the ingredients, or it is against their religion if it affects the safety of others? This article goes into both sides of this issue, even giving the laws set in place about this topic. This article gives the pros of making it mandatory for everyone to get vaccines, and it shows the cons to forcing people into getting vaccinations. With this information we can then look at the different state. Some states do not have exemption from these vaccinations. If the school were in one of these states, then yes, they could make it mandatory for all students to get the flu …show more content…
In this article it explains how a student cannot be denied a public education because they did not get a shot. The only way a student would not be allowed to go to school for not getting a shot is if their reasoning doses not fall under one of the exemptions in that state allows. Many schools say that it is mandatory for all students to have certain vaccines, but this is not true. This concerns people because parents want their school to be a safe place and if there is an outbreak of an illness due to lack of vaccinations, it causes a very big problem for the School. The Enrichment public school cannot keep students out jest because they do not have vaccination, because all fifty states has at least one exemption from getting theses vaccinations. Therefore what this school is doing is against the law. To go even deeper to try and understand what some of the state requirements for vaccinations where I decided to look up that vaccination laws for Pennsylvania. There were two articles that I thought has very important information. This first one was what vaccinations were required, how many doses of that vaccination, and what ages these doses were to be administered. By twelfth grade a child will have had vaccinations for twelve different illnesses, the does are any were from one to four, total vaccinations around twenty five. In Pennsylvania the only two exemptions are medical, and religious. So if a student