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Originally Posted by Gideon
Vaccinations are a good example.
Many people are choosing not to vaccinate their children. And this is, of course, resulting with increased cases of measles, etc. Now should the parents be allowed NOT to vaccinate? What about the rights of the children not to suffer some disease because of stupid decisions by their parents?
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Worse, the mother was never vaccinnated, so infants too young to be immunized are not getting any antibodies from being in vitro (nor any the next two years that would normally come from breast feeding, even if they aren't switched to formula at birth).
The mother had no ill effects from lack of immunization - but lived in a community of 90+% that had been vaccinated, so was never exposed to many childhood diseases that killed and maimed many in prior generations. Their kids, however, don't live in a highly vaccinated society and are exposed much more in their early years due to the prevalence of day care from infancy. Add in an influx of disease from illegal immigrants and you end up with infants dying of whooping cough again (already happening -- childhood diseases are hitting infants who should have immunity from their mothers, but don't, as the mother has no antibodies, either).