Aborted fetal tissue and cultured diseases pumped into a two week old baby who hasn't fully developed their immune system yet?
I don't know about you, but when I've looked at each of my babies at two weeks old and how completely helpless they are, choosing between them and a vial of poison which most likely wouldn't prevent the diseases they are never exposed to anyway, the choice wasn't that hard.
I don't think any amount of "breaking news" from our biased media with multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies backing them, will reverse my opinion on this issue. I feel sorry for Dr. Andrew Wakefield (and the rest of us) because the huge amount of corruption out there prevents us from really knowing if his research was actually fraudulent or if this is all a witch-hunt to ensure we keep spending millions of dollars on vaccines.
Cervical cancer in nine year olds? Don't need a vaccine for that. Childhood chicken pox? We all survived. Measles? Children recover pretty well.
The vaccine-autism link didn't start with Wakefield and it won't end with him.
http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2011/01/round-20-in-destroy-andrew-wakefield.html
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Don't get me started. It is a joke when people say that "science" is the only truth people will believe in. People believe whatever they want. People WANT to believe that vaccines are safe and they WANT to believe that no one is motivated by money or greed when it comes to putting children at risk. Question the system and you find the system fight against you with anything BUT logic.. By the way, I'm really looking forward to a doctor-free delivery--and the MMR will not touch this child.
Thanks for the venting opportunity! ;)
Preach it, sista! lol!
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/I'm surprised about your view on measles... I could see the controversy on the cervical cancer vaccine, but... So are you saying you think there definitely is a link between vaccines and autism, or you don't want to give your kids vaccines just because? - Allison
Allison,
What I'm saying is, even if it was proved definitively that there wasn't a link between vaccines and autism, many are still cultured by using aborted fetal tissue (a typical pediatrician does NOT tell you that when you bring your kid in, nor can they tell you which ones are and which ones aren't if you ask).
That, and the fact that I don't trust the drug industry in general, which is an industry that makes billions of dollars a year by selling vaccines, to be completely benevolent and straight-forward 100% of the time when it comes to their bread and butter. Those two factors combined (regardless of autism) leads me to feel that altogether I would rather avoid them unless they become absolutely necessary (for example my kid gets a rusty nail embedded in his foot, or we travel to a third world country--and even then I would still refuse the ones cultured from aborted fetal tissue).
Personally, I don't think the claims are bogus. The gov't is paying out on lawsuits where parents have claimed that their child became autistic (or previous unknown problems became life changing after a shot was administered) because of vaccines. If they are paying people off that, in a small way admits they understand there is a connection. Or at least that there could be.
I just don't think it's as simple as people want to believe. Vaccines aren't 100% effective, sometimes they DO cause harm, the industry that produces them ISN'T squeaky clean, and many of the diseases they are meant to prevent aren't as serious as we are led to believe (under most circumstances).
The whooping cough vaccine was repeatedly pushed on me by our last pediatrician. When I inquired further he informed me that it was going around in the schools and there was a pretty good number of kids getting it. This is a joke! All kids are vaccinated to attend school! These kids should've been inoculated.
Also, he grudgingly admitted that unless I had a few day old newborn and wasn't breastfeeding, it wasn't really dangerous.
Really? Then why do my kids need the vaccine so bad?
Did you know they vaccinate all newborn babies for Hep. B? Hours after birth. I've had to decline it everytime or it would've been administered. Most people don't know enough to say one way or the other. It's just common practice and the nurse walks in with her syringe.
Hep B is a sexually transmitted disease. Is my newborn baby going to have this? No. Not unless I do, and I can easily tell them, NO, I do not have Hep B. But they don't care, they just give it to every baby. Unless you specifically tell them not to.
Do we really know all the unintended effects that one little thing could have on an hours old baby?
I don't mean to go on and on. But we did research this quite a bit after Ezra was born. We just went along with Sadie b/c that's what they expect and want most people to do.
I don't think there's any harm in people questioning and forming their own opinions. Especially in an environment where the norm is rarely questioned and people involved are making mega bucks for it.
Also, we did take Jude in a couple years ago for a tetanus shot. He rammed his head into a large piece of molding and needed some stitches too.
I was completely SHOCKED and INFURIATED when I learned afterward that they are now combining all kinds of vaccines and "preventative" crap into ONE tetanus shot.
So I signed a paper and agreed to give my son a tetanus shot, and they in a very sneaky way managed to slip him a drug cocktail without me being any the wiser. The doctor informed me after it was already done.
Doctors make money, drug companies make money, parents are sheep, and kids get experimented on.
It still makes me angry thinking about that.
Incredibly delayed reaction: I don't know... With the Hepatitis B thing in particular, not all mothers would admit or even know if they had it, but they should be up front about everything they're doing.
I'm not saying it's wrong of you to ask questions about procedures like that and in general, but I still don't see why you wouldn't want to take advantage of the fact that you live in a modern, first world country that has easy vaccines for diseases that may not be fatal in *all* cases, but can be serious. Like if one of your kids came down with one of these preventable diseases that became serious, would you still feel good about your decision?
After that study came out saying the measles/mumps vaccine was bad, there was an epidemic of cases reported in the UK. That just seems completely unnecessary to me!
I just saw your last comment.
If we were sending our kids to public school, I would probably get them vaccinated. Albeit on a delayed schedule and making sure none of the vaccines we'd use were cultured using aborted fetal tissue.
Or, like I said before, if we were going someplace where the likelihood of contracting one of those illnesses was higher.
If my kids got one of them now, and died, yeah, I would feel pretty bad. But the chances of that happening are tiny.
And even if it did happen now (they got one), I'm not pregnant (sometimes measles can harm a fetus), and we don't have any newborns or immuno compromised kids. 99% chance they would recover fine, even Violet.
And the benefit would be a life long resistance, something a vaccine can't bestow.
Maybe you can have your baby die in your arms like I did from measles because I chose not to vaccinate him. Where did my baby get measles from? My oldest child, who was also not vaccinated. I respect your opinion but regret my (former) opinion every day.
Anonymous,
I'm truly sorry for the loss of your baby. I never said in any of my posts that measles or (any other disease) was completely harmless. But it is a fact that the fatality rate is not very high for measles unless you're a newborn baby or your immune system is compromised.
There are many mothers out there who regret their decision to vaccinate after watching their vibrant children suddenly descend into autism or other negative health related side effects.
It's a fine line to walk, we know the risk to contract the diseases is still there (albeit lower in the US), but do we choose the evil we know or the possibility of something evil? Since all our children have been very healthy and robust, we chose to not vaccinate.
I don't know you (I don't think), but I can't imagine suffering through the loss of a child and my heart goes out to you.
Sara
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