With having children comes the responsibility to make decisions for them with their best interest in mind. The larger and one of the first decisions parents have to make is whether or not they want their newly born infant to be vaccinated. Right after the baby is born, it gets taken to the nursery to get checked out and by the end of that very day their child either receives their first set of shots or the parents chose to opt out of it. If the parents opt out of having their child receive vaccinations and immunizations, they open the doors to quite a lot of complications and risks for not only for their child’s whole life, but also the lives of other children and adults and their own future children. No parent wants to lose their child and
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Before the rubella vaccine was created, there was a world-wide outbreak of German measles that resulted in 11,000 babies dying and 20,000 babies being born with birth defects. With the increase of vaccinating children for rubella, also known as German measles, the risk has decreased tremendously for a pregnant woman to pass it along to their unborn fetus or their newly born child. Birth defects such as deafness, blindness, heart problems, liver and spleen damage, and mental disabilities that come with the virus are no longer even seen in the United States, all by just a vaccination (Pro & Con Arguments:”Should Any Vaccines Be Required for Children?).
Vaccines are in the end a product, just like mostly anything else in the world, and with products the main goal is to sell as many as possible to receive the largest profit off of it. With that in mind, pharmaceutical companies are thought of by parents to not be trusted because they are not looking solely at the children’s health and safety, but more along the lines of what they are going to gain by releasing the vaccine (Pro & Con Arguments: “Should Any Vaccines Be Required for …show more content…
A few ingredients found in vaccinations are Thimerosal, Formaldehyde, Aluminum, Gelatin, and Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). Thimerosal has mercury in it, and is thought of to have connections to autism. Formaldehyde is thought of to have connections to certain cancers. Aluminum is thought of to be linked to brain and bone diseases and could damage kidneys. Gelatin and Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is used to increase the shelf life of vaccinations and could cause serious allergic reactions. “Gelatin is the single largest identifiable source of severe allergic reactions from vaccines” (What Goes Into A Vaccine). According to the CDC, even though all of the previous ingredients are harmful, they are only harmful in large doses and no vaccines have a harmful amount in them (What Are The Reasons To Vaccinate My
Before the rubella vaccine was created, there was a world-wide outbreak of German measles that resulted in 11,000 babies dying and 20,000 babies being born with birth defects. With the increase of vaccinating children for rubella, also known as German measles, the risk has decreased tremendously for a pregnant woman to pass it along to their unborn fetus or their newly born child. Birth defects such as deafness, blindness, heart problems, liver and spleen damage, and mental disabilities that come with the virus are no longer even seen in the United States, all by just a vaccination (Pro & Con Arguments:”Should Any Vaccines Be Required for Children?).
Vaccines are in the end a product, just like mostly anything else in the world, and with products the main goal is to sell as many as possible to receive the largest profit off of it. With that in mind, pharmaceutical companies are thought of by parents to not be trusted because they are not looking solely at the children’s health and safety, but more along the lines of what they are going to gain by releasing the vaccine (Pro & Con Arguments: “Should Any Vaccines Be Required for …show more content…
A few ingredients found in vaccinations are Thimerosal, Formaldehyde, Aluminum, Gelatin, and Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). Thimerosal has mercury in it, and is thought of to have connections to autism. Formaldehyde is thought of to have connections to certain cancers. Aluminum is thought of to be linked to brain and bone diseases and could damage kidneys. Gelatin and Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is used to increase the shelf life of vaccinations and could cause serious allergic reactions. “Gelatin is the single largest identifiable source of severe allergic reactions from vaccines” (What Goes Into A Vaccine). According to the CDC, even though all of the previous ingredients are harmful, they are only harmful in large doses and no vaccines have a harmful amount in them (What Are The Reasons To Vaccinate My