Mill's Vaccination Case

“Ninety percent of the 1,552 parents surveyed online said they strongly agree that getting vaccines, like MMR, Varicella, Meningococcal Conjugate, and HPV, can protect their children from diseases, but also said that they believe those same vaccines could have serious adverse effects. Indeed, 11.5% had refused at least one physician-recommended for their child or children” ( par. 2).

I believe that practices should NOT be allowed to dismiss patients because they choose not to vaccinate their children. I believe THAT IT IS A PARENT’S RIGHT TO DO WHAT THEY FEEL IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THEIR CHILDREN REGARDLESS TO HOW OTHERS AGREE/DISAGREE. A PRACTICE SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO TELL A PARENT “WELL IF YOU WILL NOT HAVE your baby VACCINATED in MY PRACTICE THAN I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE TO YOU.” The biggest key is education, EDUCATION, EDUCATION AND TO GET TO THE ROOT AND EDUCATE ON THE FEAR, and MYTH AS TO WHY THE PARENT(S) REFUSES VACCINATION. It may be time-consuming but educate the family on each vaccine, what it protects against….. that mother is not realizing that vaccinating that young child is preventing

Most parents trust their pediatrician or family doctor more than anyone when it comes to the health of their child. However, many parents are beginning to question their doctor’s advice when it comes to vaccinating their children. After countless accusations of harmful effects of childhood vaccinations, some parents have decided to stop having their child vaccinated, putting not only their child, but the entire human population in danger.

In the United States, the law states that vaccinations are required for children entering school unless they have a valid reason that prevents them from receiving the vaccinations. Starting when children are born, they begin the regimen of vaccinations that continue throughout their adolescent years and adulthood. Each year children receive a variation of shots to protect them from the illnesses they will encounter in the world, especially once they attend school. The most common reasons parents forego getting their children vaccinated are religious beliefs, medical exemptions, and personal beliefs. Due to the rising number of parents declining to get their children vaccinated, the number of outbreaks of preventable diseases has increased. The question is now should parents/guardians be forced to vaccinate their children?

I agree with you as MA we have to respect the parents wishes regardless of what we think is right or wrong. Vaccination is a tough subject a lot of people believe there child could get a disease from vaccines. Some people just don't believe in vaccinating their children its their choose and we cant do anything to change their mind except give them information on vaccines so they can make a educated decision. I believe parents want for their kids to be protected from certain bacterial infections specially young children.

Is it ethical to allow parents to be exempt from vaccinating their children before they begin attending school due to their religious or personal beliefs? Childhood vaccinations have been around since the 1977 Childhood Immunization Initiative. It is important to have your child vaccinated for both the benefit of your child and your surrounding community. Vaccinations help prevent the spread of diseases that can lead to hospitalizations and sometimes even death. In the United States, only medical exemptions are allowed throughout all 50 states. Exemptions that are religious or personal vary from state to state. These exemptions are given due to the fact that individuals have a constitutional right to exercise such beliefs. An important fact to keep in mind is that many cases of diseases like measles, smallpox, and polio have been prevented from turning into an outbreak because a majority of the population in the United States is immune to them. If it were not for this majority, diseases would be spreading rapidly. We have progressed as a society to protect each other’s health and allowing an alarming number of individuals to opt out of getting these vaccinations will cause a serious threat to our society. Is it ethical to allow people to put the lives of others in danger?

Parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children for many reasons. Some claim vaccinations to be unsafe, while others claim it is against their religious beliefs. Whatever the reason, there are many serious consequences of

The lives of other would be put on the line as well it's not only your kids you have to think about sometimes. These diseases spread very easily and your kid going unprotected to a place full of other people like a school is very dangerous because with one person having the disease if no one is protected everyone at the school or at least a couple hundred could come sick. A parent can be in control of how they raise their children and what they do and don’t decide to do with their children , but when it comes to measures of that sort when your child's life could potentially be in danger it should be a requirement that parents have to vaccinate their children. Now if there is a good enough reason like the child is allergic to the vaccine then there should be an attempt to find an alternative method that can be taken to still have the child protected from the disease and while still not spreading the

It’s nobodies business whether or not my child gets vaccinated: Parents who fail to vaccinate their kids may be jeopardising the health of other children who are unable to get vaccinated yet.

It is important to respect parent autonomy in medicine, however it is also important to support decisions that are made for the best interest of the public. When unvaccinated children become ill, but not severe enough to miss school and they attend school; they are creating an environment where the pathogen can develop several different strains when they come in contact with other children that have been vaccinated. Not only can replication take place in these situations, but also children who may have a compromised immune system are in danger as well as children who are too young for vaccinations. Scenario’s like these are the makings of an epidemics in the United States as well as the world. It is hard to make a decision on an important matter

The Centers for Disease Control estimated that 732,000 American children were saved from death and 322 million cases of childhood illnesses were prevented between 1994 and 2014 due to vaccination (CDC). Yet why are parents fighting vaccination in their children? The use of vaccination can be traced back to early 1000 AD in China. Approximately 800 years later United States President James Madison created the National Vaccine Agency. By 1879 the Anti-Vaccination Society of America was founded. Since then, the war for mandatory child vaccination has fiercely played out in the United States court system. The battles were mostly focused on the idea that the government should not have the power to force or control what citizens do to their bodies,

The ethics of vaccination is a very important topic to discuss because vaccinations and increase it morbidity and mortality it even wiped out many infectious diseases in the past like the small pox. , measles, whooping cough and human papilloma virus. It not only protects the person being immunizations are the only type of medical interventions that has eliminated a disease successfully, they are among the most efficacious and cost-effective of global medical interventions, immunizations have saved millions of people lives and also prevented an immunized it also protects their community, this is because if most of their community is immunized, then the infectious disease has nowhere to grow (Ulmer & Liu 2002). So when a child or adult refuses to take vaccines it not only but them at risk it also puts others at risk making it difficult to

One day, a parent may make the choice to not to vaccinate their child. Regardless of the reason, this poses a severe threat to their child, not just medically but socially too. This also puts the public’s health at risk. A doctor may feel that they are being put into an ethically moral gray area when having to make a decision about what to do in this situation. According to the Hippocratic Oath, a doctor wants to do what’s within the best interest for the child and the public. Although it may be going against the autonomy of a parent if said family chooses not to vaccinate their child, doctors have a right for dismissal. This right ensure that he/she will do what’s ethically right for everyone involved, even if it may be against the

Parental permission must be sought before children receive medical interventions, including immunizations. The child should be the primary focus when faced with a decision to immunize a child. Making medical care choices for a child by parents is allowed unless those choices place their child at substantial risk of serious harm. Parental increasing refusal of allowing immunizations to their children in the United States has seen the re-emergence of measles (de St. Maurice & Edwards, 2016).

In 1963 the Noble Peace Prize winning virologist John F. Enders finally licensed his vaccine for measles. Prior to this vaccine the United States alone reported 4 million cases of the measles each year. With more scientific discoveries the measles vaccine today has evolved to include immunity against rubella and mumps along with protecting millions against illness each year. However, vaccination is a word surrounded by controversy in today’s parenting world and the Measles Mumps and Rubella vaccine (MMR) can be distinguished as possibly the most controversial vaccine of our time. Controversial because of the fear that many have that it causes autism along with other hazards. This fear has clouded