I will most likely receive a lot of backlash from this.
I am not a parent. I am not pregnant.
I say this from the perspective of a care taker. I say this from the perspective of a woman with a college degree.
We are all biased.
I currently work with a child who is diagnosed with a variety of exceptionalities. One diagnosis is vaccine injury. This diagnosis was made by reputable doctors at John Hopkins.
I am not anti-vaccine. I am not pro-vaccine. I am a person who acknowledges that vaccines can cause injury.
Did you know there is actually a law called the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
"This historic law acknowledged that vaccine injuries and deaths are real and that the vaccine injured and their families should be financially supported and that vaccine safety protections were needed in the mass vaccination system. The law set up a federal vaccine injury compensation program as well as included legal requirements for vaccine providers to:
- give parents vaccine benefit and risk information before their children are vaccinated;
- keep written records of vaccine manufacturer names and lot numbers for each vaccination given;
- enter serious health problems following vaccination into a child’s permanent medical record; and
- report serious health problems following vaccination to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).·
The law preserved the right for vaccine injured persons to bring a lawsuit in the court system if federal compensation is denied or is not sufficient. By 2012, the U.S. Court of Claims had awarded nearly $2.5 billion dollars to vaccine victims for their catastrophic vaccine injuries, although two out of three applicants have been denied compensation. ” - http://www.nvic.org/injury-compensation/origihanlaw.aspx
The CDC even recognizes that vaccines can be harmful.
As a future parent, I intend to be educated on the choices that I make for my children. I intend to know the risk factors before I choose to vaccinate. I intend to take into account my family history, my own history, and many other factors before I subject my child to any kind of medical intervention.
I encourage you to be informed. Do some research. But also be aware that research can be one sided. I am personally biased towards acknowledging that vaccine injury exists and can be devastating. Understand that research must be paid for. Who pays for the research can have a large impact on the research outcome or what is reported. Generally, pharmacology puts large amount of money into vaccine research. If someone has money invested into something, they generally don’t want it to be disproved. So see if you can find some private third party research on this topic. Then make an INFORMED decision.
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