Am I against vaccines in general?
No.
What I am against is not leaving parents a choice, and the ingredients used in these vaccines. It also stems from our government not being willing to start these shots at a later age, once the person's own immune system has had a chance to develop further on its own.
I'm not a doctor, I know.
However, my thoughts on this issue are based on personal experience, (is there a stronger teacher than experience?), as well as much reading. I have done, and continue with passion, to do research on this very topic. So long as I have children, I will follow up on the ingredients used in these shots, etc. I owe that to my kids.
(And by the way, many of the books I've read on this issue are written by doctors themselves. Pedicatricians, family doctors, psychiatrists in the field of special education...it's not all just "online info" that many regard as unreliable.)
Back to why I started this post.
I found this article and it just reminded me of how scary it's becoming, between the medical field and our government "mandating" so much of our children and their bodies.
NJ weighs new vaccine rules for kids
Children in New Jersey would be the first to need flu
and pneumonia vaccinations to attend preschool or a licensed day care under a
proposal that brought angry parents to a public hearing Friday.
But about 30 people at the public hearing said the
state should not require more vaccinations for young children when studies about
safety are weak or flawed, and there is limited information about how they might
interact.
"We're pumping toxins into our children's bodies," said Sue
Collins, co-founder of the New Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice in
Vaccination. "The government refuses to recognize the correlation between more
vaccines and more disabilities."
Key point there: pumping toxins into our children's bodies.
Thankfully I am not a resident of NJ. But it's only a matter of time that it begins in one state, and then the others are following behind trying to enforce the same rules.
Is my state next? Is yours?
2 comments:
I do live in New Jersey.
The even more scarier thing here, right now, is that they are thinking of mandating that all 11 year old girls receive that HPV vaccine (yes, the one that prevents you from getting a "sexually transmitted disease.") I have an 11 year old girl in the house. She is too young....too young....for the idea that this vaccine can aid in promiscuous behavior by eliminating one of its natural consequences.
Oh wow, Barb. I couldn't agree with you more. I don't have an 11 year old daughter, but I do have nieces that age. It scares me to think of how the advertising for this vaccine alone is influencing them. My sister and I discus this often.
People are often surprised when I share with them that a big part of my considering homeschooling is due to vaccinations. I don't think I am willing to put my child in a Catholic school at the cost of "having" to vaccinate them. I know I can file an exemption for the public schools. I don't know if I am willing to go that route, either. So yes, I am considering homeschooling, in part, because of the what I feel is best for my child's health. Does that really sound crazy?
People of my parents' generation (born in 1938) are often shocked at the number of shots given to such young babies. I was born in 1980, and it's a tremendous increase even since then.
Sorry to ramble on.
I wasn 't sure-do you homeschool?
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