It is ironic that anti-vaxxers dismiss discussion of the very real risks of disability and death from vaccine-preventable diseases while hysterically hyping the minor side effects of vaccines as being intolerably dangerous and wildly exaggerating the 1 in a million chance of a serious side effect.
Measles eradication is within our reach. But anti-vaxxers who would rather children die than receive a vaccine threaten that eradication. And make no mistake about it: the first anti-vaxxers' motivation for opposing smallpox vaccination was that preventing deadly illness goes against the will of God. They no longer claim to represent the will of God--nowadays, they are more likely to claim that preventing deadly disease is "unnatural" (because they worship Gaia instead of God now)--but the fact that they want children to die is unchanged.
Are you sure you're an exDem? LOL
Your argument sounds like that of the judge who overturned Prop 8 in California by claiming that Religion provided no rational basis for choice and as such all votes or groups premised upon such were irrelevant to the decision he made against the will of the people.
Since when does ANYONE have to justify to self-appointed betters why they choose what they choose. AND where do you get off with your vitriolic hatred on the as you call them "anti-vaxxers". Get a life -Individual Freedom & Liberty is what the issue is here; regardless, how the mob that actually wishes to dismiss discussion and impose what it 'feels' is best on individuals... Individuals do NOT have to justify God-given rights to ANYONE.