[Claud]

I guess Jenny McCarthy’s name is a nice insult to throw out there to take the place of logic. Nice.

I choose to believe my own common sense and (incidentally) the CDC which admits that every vaccine carries a risk of complication and side effect.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm

Vaccines are not a panacea. They are not magically immune from risks and complications. They are not all for deadly diseases. And they do not necessarily confer immunity equally. They do not all have the same effect on everyone.

And because of all that it is IMPERATIVE that parents have the final say on whether to administer them or not.

But my mistake I guess...I was born in a free country and I mistakenly keep thinking it should still be that way.

[Hawthorn]

>> every vaccine carries a risk of complication and side effect <<

Of course. Any well-informed person knows that.

But the statistics are something like the following:

One out of about every 500,000 children who receive the measles vaccine will suffer death or brain damage as a result.

But on the other hand, one out of about every 1000 children who get measles will suffer death or brain damage.

Do you want your child to be one in 500,000? Or one in 1000?