Posted on 02/03/2015 8:15:43 AM PST by Biggirl
Dr. Ben Carson, a likely 2016 GOP presidential contenders, believes there should be no “philosophical” or “religious” exemptions for vaccinations. “Although I strongly believe in individual rights and the rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit, I also recognize that public health and public safety are extremely important in our society,” Carson told The Hill.
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Better start rounding up the Amish. We can get to everybody else later.
Christie’s reply was better - not all vaccinations come with the same public health benefit and parents should be informed accordingly.
And he drives the final nail in the coffin that is his 2016 nomination hopes
If Dr. Carson were serious, he should've run for HOR or US Senate in this last election/
Government is force.
How much force should the government apply to you and your children to enforce this?
Fines?
Jail time?
Removal of children from “uncaring”, “neglectful” households?
Forcible vaccination at gun point?
Summary execution of non-compliant parents?
You tell me...
I’m afraid I have to agree.
I don’t know enough to make an educated statement.
I can, however, say that a man who uses the point of a gun and the Federal law behind it to force a person to receive a shot does not believe in individual freedom or rights.
Aside from one speech, Carson has shown me nothing to get excited about.
Maybe he should stop acting like a doctor and more like a politician and suck-up to the right?
Aside from one speech, Carson has shown me nothing to get excited about.
Agree
The fact that an ostensibly conservative and Christian candidate could say this and also be a homeschool hero is stunning.
If true, there would be little or no meaningful free exercise of religion.
You cannot refuse an injection by a third party?
Health insurance is mandatory and now any injection that science can statistically defend as improving public health cannot be individually resisted.
I hope he re-thinks this.
Why can’t the government make a convincing public case rather than using force in the manner prescribed?
It is stunning that we are even having this conversation.
Wow!
That he has his head in rectal defilade regarding the 2nd Amendment was sufficient for me to cross him off my list of persons of interest...
Time to move on from Dr. Ben...Brilliant surgeon...Presidential timber? Not so much...
“I’m afraid I have to agree.”
If so, google Dr. Sherry Tenpenny
Ah, the “public good!” Isn’t that the reasoning that has brought us Obamacare, Michelle’s lunch program and gun control?
When the “public good” is defined by anyone except the common sense of the individual and the infallible Word of his Creator; evil insues. The laws of the United States have always been based on Scripture...until recent times.
Dr. Carson has taken the first step away from those values and I suspect it won’t be the last one.
Quote from Carson:
“Certain communicable diseases have been largely eradicated by immunization policies in this country and we should not allow those diseases to return by foregoing safe immunization programs, for philosophical, religious or other reasons when we have the means to eradicate them.”
Paul’s comments, on the other hand, are all over the place.
He’s for vaccines, they are great he says, and I am sure he believes that and knows how important vaccinations are and have been to our country and all mankind.
Yet Paul tries to play both sides of the fence because he knows a lot of his supporters are of the loony liberal persuasion so he comes across as incoherent.
But the list of mandatory vaccines should be pared down to the absolute minimum.
Even Benjamin Franklin regretted until the end of his life not having his son vaccinated for smallpox and who later died of the same.
Which begs a question.
Would YOU rather have your children take a chance on a complication from a vaccine,
OR would your rather put flowers on their little graves for the next 40 years because they died of a preventable epidemic?
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