About 4,500 children may develop serious adverse effects involving life-threatening conditions, hospitalization, permanent disability, or death each year from vaccines ("Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System," n.d.). This a very high number of serious adverse effects per year. It is hard to understand that even with this number so high, discussion of the possible requirement of all children to have vaccines are in debate. Vaccines should not be required for children because the government should not have the power to force certain medical choices, the FDA, CDC, and pharmaceutical companies should not be trusted with the manufacturing and regulation of vaccines, and dangerous ingredients are contained in vaccines.
The first issue presented by requirement of vaccines for all children is, the government should not have the power to command specific medical choices. For example, the co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, Barbara Low Fisher, said, "If the state can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biological products of known and unknown toxicity today, there will be no limits on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow" ("Barbara Speaks Out," n.d.). In short, medical decisions should be the legal guardians choice, not the government 's. …show more content…
The government would take every personal right we, the people, had if the choice to vaccinate became mandatory. Also, when money and mixed interests are involved, the result can never be trusted. And, dangerous ingredients are ever-present in vaccines. Should we let our children be exposed to potentially fatal
The first issue presented by requirement of vaccines for all children is, the government should not have the power to command specific medical choices. For example, the co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, Barbara Low Fisher, said, "If the state can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biological products of known and unknown toxicity today, there will be no limits on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow" ("Barbara Speaks Out," n.d.). In short, medical decisions should be the legal guardians choice, not the government 's. …show more content…
The government would take every personal right we, the people, had if the choice to vaccinate became mandatory. Also, when money and mixed interests are involved, the result can never be trusted. And, dangerous ingredients are ever-present in vaccines. Should we let our children be exposed to potentially fatal