Measles is an illness that was virtually eradicated by medical advances to prevent it’s contraction. Parents who chose not to vaccinate their children are functioning off of deeply flawed logic.
They believe in a correlation between the rise in autism and the frequency of vaccinations is proof of one causing the other. This is claim is not supported by any scientific research. Similarities in lines on a graph do not mean that they are at all related.
But even if you could humor the possibility of vaccines causing autism, the choice to not vaccinate is still preposterous. Autism hinders a child’s life, diseases can end them. Can a parent really be so afraid of having a disabled child that they would be willing to risk that baby’s life?
This issue is not protected by a parent’s right to control their child. We don’t allow a parent to beat, hurt, maim abuse or assault their children and that is because the rights of a parent end with the endangerment of their children.
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