Making Vaccines Mandatory : Required Vaccinations For Children

CHILDHOOD vaccination should be mandatory for all children. Children who are not immunised should not be allowed to attend state funded schools and preschools because they’re risking the health of all kids. If you are vaccinated, you have a much lower chance of getting any disease for which you've been vaccinated. In a recent measles outbreak, 80% of the population was vaccinated and accounted for 3% of the measles cases; 20% was unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated and accounted for 97% of the cases. So why not vaccinate your child?

Vaccinations are one of the most successful medical advancements in health. Defined by the CDC, vaccine is “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease”. Vaccinations have successfully saved 5 million life years by controlling diseases such as poliomyelitis, measles, and tetanus. Thus, it is surprising to realize that mandating such an effective technology can cause so much controversy. This paper will examine the controversies around vaccine mandates and discuss approaches to understand the resistance against vaccinations.

The measles, diphtheria, the flu; all diseases. All are contagious and all can be deadly if untreated. When it comes to these types of diseases we are recommended to get a vaccination, but when it stops being recommended and the government makes it mandatory; people may see it as a sign that is necessary to get an immunization and others may see it as an issue to be forced to get immunizations. I believe that the government should be allowed to make us get mandatory immunization, because it helps protects the common good and prevents outbreaks.

There are many diseases that cause health problems or even death. There are things that can be done to help with disease. Some people choose to get the help and others do not because of their beliefs.

Vaccines should be required for the children as it can save children’s lives. As reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the period of 20 years, there were about 732 000 children’s lives have been saved after they received routine vaccinations (Bahar, 2014). Vaccine was prepared from the agent of the disease that had been weakened in order to give immunization for the patient. As the vaccine being injected to a person’s body, he or she will be immune from the related disease. By this way, it is for sure can save children’s live as the chance to be infected by the disease has been lowered. The action of giving vaccine had been done before the children started their school for primary protection. According to “How Vaccination

From 1994 to 2014 it was estimated that 732,000 American children were rescued from death by one small act (Vaccines). 322 Million cases of illnesses were prevented, because of a decision made by parents of small children. According to a United Nations Foundation partner organization, vaccines protect 2.5 million children from preventable diseases every year (Vaccines).

Vaccines are substances which stimulate antibodies to be produced and provide immunity to diseases, they are supposed to act as an antigen without giving the patient the actual disease; unfortunately the health risks associated with some of them make getting vaccines a much more complex decision. Within America, throughout the past hundred plus years, the idea of vaccinations have become increasingly popular, especially for children of very young ages. Recent studies have proven that some mandatory vaccines, especially when given in a short intervals, can lead to severe and chronic health problems. Since there have been so many studies proving that certain mandatory vaccines are severely harmful to one 's health, a question arises: why are those vaccines mandatory? In order to resolve this problem, there are two solutions: either pass a bill making all vaccines, that have been proven to have negative and chronic side effects, optional, and take other precautions in preventing outbreaks of diseases or make vaccines less harmful to our health. Either of these options would lead to a more healthy outcome in the long run, so for the most effective outcome, using both of these methods in conjunction would be the most beneficial.

Even though a safe and cost-effective vaccine is available, measles is one of the leading cause of death among young children.

One important reason why vaccines should be mandatory for all children is because vaccines save lives. The American Academy of Pediatrics declared that most childhood vaccines are 90-99 percent effective in preventing disease (The Benefits). Today, vaccines are the best weapons that we have as human beings against toxic and harmful diseases according to the US Food and Drug Administration. Some people believe that better cleanliness and sanitation will put a stop to the spreads of diseases, but as long as the germs that cause the disease still exist, the diseases

Life as we know it was just a dream for most families in the 19th and 20th centuries- they were consumed with fear of having family members die from awful diseases, while that is the last thing on most of the world’s minds now. Vaccines have transformed human life. Parents should vaccinate their children because it saves lives, the vaccines are safe, and the risks of not vaccinating can harm children more than the vaccines themselves.

“Childhood vaccines protect children from a variety of serious or potentially fatal diseases, including diphtheria, measles, meningitis, polio, tetanus and whooping cough. If these diseases seem uncommon — or even unheard of — it's usually because these vaccines are doing their job”(mayoclinic.org). For century’s diseases have ravaged the human population. To prevent these diseases doctors have discovered a way to prevent these diseases called vaccines. Some examples of these are the Polio, chicken pox, hepatitis A vaccines. However, in the past year one of the most recent arguments has been whether or not parents should vaccinate their children.

In 1796, Edward Jenner, a doctor living in Berkeley, England, injected an eight year old with a new concoction made of cow-pox lesions. James Phillips, the young boy, then became immune to the adverse effects of the Smallpox for the remainder of his life. Unaware at the time, Jenner conducted the world’s first vaccination, laying the groundwork for future innovations. Years later, accomplished scientists followed in Jenner’s footsteps, creating vaccines to combat everything from Measles to Polio to Tetanus. Despite the superior benefits of the new revelation, numerous parents still made the decision to not vaccinate their kids. A study conducted by CNN reveals that today, up to twenty eight

One of the most remarkable things about humanity is our ability to survive. Over the course of evolution, we have earned our immunity among microscopic bacteria, but there are some things that we can’t fight on our own. Through ingenious science, life saving vaccines were developed. Death and suffering from diseases like polio are now a thing of a past. Vaccinations should not be optional, because there is no evidence of any negative repercussions to vaccines. Everything they do is beneficial, and some groups of people in modern society see it as a way to suppress their rights as individuals. It is an unnecessary risk to leave children unvaccinated.

The first vaccination for smallpox was discovered in 1796 by Edward Jenner; since then there have been arguments over the morality, ethics, effectiveness, and safety of all vaccinations. A vaccination is a killed or weakened organism that is used to create immunity that protects you from a particular disease without causing the suffering from the disease itself. Immunizations have saved more than a billon lives and protected civilians in the United States from life threatening diseases. During the 20th century the life expectancy in the United States has increased largely due to immunizations and also reducing the mortality rate of infectious diseases (Healthy People 2020, 2014, p.1). In today’s society there has been skepticism among parents with vaccinating their children. Although there is no scientific discovery, parents have an idea that injecting a potential harmful substance may be linked to autism, SIDS, or other threatening side effects. Vaccinations are not mandatory in the United States, people have the right to choose, but outbreaks of preventable diseases will occur when numerous parents decide not to vaccinate their children. According to the CDC, vaccine-preventable diseases are still a threat to our society (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2016, p.1). Outbreaks of measles, mumps, and whopping cough have been reported since 2001 and continue to infect children in the U.S.

Advancement in the field of medicine especially public health has made it possible for physicians to come up with vaccines that can and have saved millions of children's lives. Diseases that can end life or injure children have been eliminated entirely, and others controlled to the extent that minimal deaths have been registered from those health problems. Recent reports from the center for disease control indicate that smallpox and polio have an incidence of zero since the year 2012. Also, they suggested that the mortality rate if measles has reduced by 74% which means that millions of children who could have died are now alive and well or at least free of measles, thanks to vaccination (Gholipour, 2014). The above statistic is for US only, but the results have been similar to other countries as well. Therefore, it is morally right for any parent to take the child for vaccination because in normal circumstances every parent felt happy and contented to know that their children are healthy and not at risk of getting sick. A small number