The Importance Of Vaccination Should Be Mandatory

As we know, no matter what the topic not everyone always agrees. Some parents refuse to have their children vaccinated. Many parents hear awful stories about children who have been vaccinated. The parents then automatically assume vaccinations will do nothing but harm their children. Many do not do the research to find that most of this harm hasn’t been proven to be an effect from the vaccinations. They also do not realize how rarely these harmful situations occur. It has been said that when you contract a disease naturally it gives that person a lifelong immunity, unlike vaccinations (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). This may be true, but sometimes when a person contracts the disease naturally it could be deadly, and they could spread …show more content…
I would have to agree, because even parents who have their children vaccinated can not protect their children one hundred percent from those who are not being vaccinated. It is not right to make other children and adults sick, because of another parent’s poor decision not to vaccinate their child. I believe vaccines should be mandatory, because it is a parent’s choice to vaccinate their children. This doesn’t give children an option, and some parents don’t care enough to research and see how not vaccinating their children could really harm them (Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society). If it was mandatory for everyone to be vaccinated, we would most likely see another drastic decline in the number of people effected by these deadly diseases. After many years it is very likely these diseases would all together disappear. All fifty states require vaccinations for children entering public schools even though no mandatory federal vaccination laws exist. This may lead you to believe every student in a public school has been vaccinated, but that is not true. All fifty states issue medical exemptions, forty-eight states, excluding Mississippi and West Virginia, permit religious exemptions, and nineteen states allow an exemption for philosophical reasons. With that being said, it is pretty easy for many parents to send their children to school un-vaccinated (Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society). I respect people’s beliefs, but when it comes to my family and I’s health I strongly believe vaccinations should be mandatory. I do believe children with other medical issues whose immune systems will not react right should be exempt from the mandating until they are healthy again. Chemotherapy is an example of a sickness that may not react right to the vaccinations (Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society). This biggest problem for getting vaccines mandated is that many believe