Persuasive Essay About Vaccinating Children

The ongoing controversy concerning vaccination for children has been going on for many years now, making it difficult for many parents to decide what is best for their children. Doctor’s tell parents that they are safe, but how much do parents really know about vaccination? A vaccine is a product that produces immunity from a disease and can be administered through needle injections, by mouth, or by aerosol (Vaccines.gov (n.d.) “Basics”). Another way to explain a vaccination is that it is a weak form of a bacterial introduced into a child’s body in order to introduce him/her to that the disease that contains that certain bacterium. So many parents think why would we want our children to be introduced to bacteria when we try to prevent them from contact with bacteria on daily basis? The decisions that parents make for their children in regards to vaccinating them are very important staple in child’s life. Vaccines are not 100% effective, therefore many parents argue why put children through the pain of vaccinating them when it there is possibility that it won’t even work. The biggest controversy about vaccines and their side effects, has been around MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and that they it causes autism. The original claim that MMR caused autism was in 1998, when Andrew Jeremy Wakefield, a British surgeon, …show more content…
However, many vaccines have already had problems and have been removed from the market ( Sarah The Healthy Home Economist (2010, May 25). “Six Reasons to say NO to Vaccination”). Other parents’ reason for the refusal of vaccinations, as well as the reason why some doctors are against it as well, is that even when children get vaccinated against a certain disease, there are still chances that they will still end up getting that certain virus. (Tenpenny S. (2011, January 8). “The Ten Reasons To Say No To