Should Immunizations be compulsory?

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Yeah I will admit I did word that badly.

Vaccinations are one thing that I am all for. I have step family who don't vaccinate their kids. Yet I heard their mum say to one of the kids "Don't drink coke zero, it will give you cancer". I kid you not, she seriously believed that.

Vaccinations are a luxury we are lucky to have in the western world. The fact that diseases like polio have been wiped out because of them should be proof enough that they work. I cannot understand why people are so skeptical of them when the science makes it clear.

The way I see it, they are heavily needed. There are people out there with weakened immune systems, due to disease or other factors that stop the immunization working for them. My friends niece is one of them. The only way for them to be able to live a normal life and not have to worry about these diseases is herd immunity. If everyone else is immune and won't get it, they can't pass it on to the people who are vulnerable.

Then there are some of the arguments against them which make me want to slam my head against a brick wall.
Vaccines can cause autism
The idea of this came from a group of parents. Not doctors, parents. It wasn't a scientific study. It was a group of parents wanting to link two things together. Autism shows itself generally around the time when kids are first vaccinated. That is coincidence. There has been scientific study after study to prove a link and there has been one which found a link. The author of this study was found to have falsified information and that it was not true.

Besides, what is worse, your kid having autism, or dying from a preventable disease?

Aluminum in vaccines is dangerous
There is more aluminum in breast milk than there is in vaccines.

Natural infection is better than vaccination.
No it isn't. Natural infection relies on the victim (because anyone who gets these preventable diseases really is a victim of their parents) surviving the infection. Vaccination doesn't.

I am glad to see doctors are now refusing to treat patients who aren't vaccinated. As much as I feel sorry for the children, it is their parents who are to blame for it. Hopefully it gets people to do the right thing.