Childhood Vaccines: Article Analysis

The article “California Set to Mandate Childhood Vaccines Amid Intense Fight” is an informational piece about how the state of California was getting ready to vote on SB 772, which was passed on June 30th, 2015. SB 772 is a California State Senate Bill that eliminated the ability of parents to opt out of getting their children vaccinated for religious or personal reasons. If parents don’t have their children get vaccinated they can’t go to public, charter, or private schools. Children who currently attend schools but are not vaccinated are allowed continue to go to school, but they must get vaccinated before kindergarten and seventh grade. The bill was spurred on by the measles outbreak in Disneyland, earlier this year. Opponents of the bill cite their constitutional freedoms and their children’s state constitutional right to a free education. …show more content…
Ms. Medina choose to write the article because it was and continues to be a very important issue in our country. Information was provided on both sides of the issue, however, much of the information on the anti-vaccine side of the issue was used to dispute and marginalize them. The article talks about a kid who can’t get vaccinations because of leukemia. While not talking about children that have gotten diseases from vaccinations. The author then paints vaccine opponents as people who declare mandatory vaccines are like the holocaust. At the same time, she also does not support her claim that “Medical studies that claim to show a link between vaccines and autism have been discredited or