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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI Don’t Vaccinate My Child 'Cause It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back
Yes, it IS The Onion.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-dont-vaccinate-my-child-because-its-my-right-to,37839/
As a mother, I put my parenting decisions above all else. Nobody knows my son better than me, and the choices I make about how to care for him are no ones business but my own. So, when other people tell me how they think I should be raising my child, I simply cant tolerate it. Regardless of what anyone else thinks, I fully stand behind my choices as a mom, including my choice not to vaccinate my son, because it is my fundamental right as a parent to decide which eradicated diseases come roaring back.
The decision to cause a full-blown, multi-state pandemic of a virus that was effectively eliminated from the national population generations ago is my choice alone, and regardless of your personal convictions, that right should never be taken away from a childs parent. Never.
Say what you will about me, but Ive read the information out there and weighed every option, so I am confident in my choice to revive a debilitating illness that was long ago declared dead and let it spread like wildfire from school to school, town to town, and state to state, until it reaches every corner of the country. Leaving such a momentous decision to someone you havent even met and who doesnt care about your child personallynow thats absurd! Maybe I choose to bring back the mumps. Or maybe its diphtheria. Or maybe its some other potentially fatal disease that can easily pass among those too young or too medically unfit to be vaccinated themselves. But whichever highly communicable and formerly wiped-out disease that I opt to resurrect with a vengeance, it is a highly personal decision that only I and my family have the liberty to make.
The bottom line is that Im this childs mother, and I know whats best. End of story. Politicians, pharmaceutical companiesthey dont know the specific circumstances that made me decide to breathe new life into a viral infection that scientists and the nation at large celebrated stamping out roughly a century ago. It seems like all they care about is following unexamined old rules, injecting chemicals into our kids, preventing ghastly illnesses that used to ravage millions and have since been erased from storming back and wreaking mass havoc on a national scale, and making a buck. Should we really be listening to them and not our own hearts?
The decision to cause a full-blown, multi-state pandemic of a virus that was effectively eliminated from the national population generations ago is my choice alone, and regardless of your personal convictions, that right should never be taken away from a childs parent. Never.
Say what you will about me, but Ive read the information out there and weighed every option, so I am confident in my choice to revive a debilitating illness that was long ago declared dead and let it spread like wildfire from school to school, town to town, and state to state, until it reaches every corner of the country. Leaving such a momentous decision to someone you havent even met and who doesnt care about your child personallynow thats absurd! Maybe I choose to bring back the mumps. Or maybe its diphtheria. Or maybe its some other potentially fatal disease that can easily pass among those too young or too medically unfit to be vaccinated themselves. But whichever highly communicable and formerly wiped-out disease that I opt to resurrect with a vengeance, it is a highly personal decision that only I and my family have the liberty to make.
The bottom line is that Im this childs mother, and I know whats best. End of story. Politicians, pharmaceutical companiesthey dont know the specific circumstances that made me decide to breathe new life into a viral infection that scientists and the nation at large celebrated stamping out roughly a century ago. It seems like all they care about is following unexamined old rules, injecting chemicals into our kids, preventing ghastly illnesses that used to ravage millions and have since been erased from storming back and wreaking mass havoc on a national scale, and making a buck. Should we really be listening to them and not our own hearts?
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I Don’t Vaccinate My Child 'Cause It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jan 2015
OP
Sometimes satire hits the nail more squarely on the head than serious analysis.
Maedhros
Jan 2015
#2
was there a memo or something? i wonder why so many of these threads today in quick succession.
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#13
Probably because there is a pretty bad outbreak of Measles that is currently ongoing, and getting...
Humanist_Activist
Jan 2015
#14
I know this is an obvious troll account, but what's scary is people actually believe what you...
Humanist_Activist
Jan 2015
#17
trotsky
(49,533 posts)1. As only the Onion can.
LOL!
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)2. Sometimes satire hits the nail more squarely on the head than serious analysis.
Bravo, Onion.
flying rabbit
(4,632 posts)3. Misplaced anger and outrage
because I only read the title and skimmed the post. The humanity!
Danascot
(4,690 posts)4. Relevant
FSogol
(45,481 posts)5. K & R. n/t
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)6. This one is all-too accurate of so many of those in the anti-vaccine movement.
And it's funny!
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)7. "Look, I’ve done the research on these issues..."
Look, Ive done the research on these issues, Ive read the statistics, and Ive carefully considered the costs and benefits, and theres simply no question in my mind that inciting a nationwide health emergency by unleashing a disease that can kill 20 percent or more of its victims is the right one for my child.
People need to respect that and move on.
People need to respect that and move on.
Rec'd
Solly Mack
(90,763 posts)8. K&R
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)9. Kick!
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)10. Vaccines. And now my kids don't die...
Disclaimers:
"Use of vaccines without proper birth control can lead to explosive population growth causing severe environmental degradation, mass death from famine and heightened incidents of armed conflict due to limited resources"
"Do not take vaccines if you've chosen to die from the mumps"
Sid
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greatauntoftriplets
(175,733 posts)12. Hilarious!
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)13. was there a memo or something? i wonder why so many of these threads today in quick succession.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)14. Probably because there is a pretty bad outbreak of Measles that is currently ongoing, and getting...
worse.
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)15. Thanks for the information.
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Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)17. I know this is an obvious troll account, but what's scary is people actually believe what you...
posted.