Vaccines and rights?

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I'm confused about some of the arguments for not getting vaccines, and Id actually really appreciate any help on trying to figure it out. 
If you don't get vaccines and insist that it's your right to do so and that if they become mandatory you'll find ways to get out of it, then why don't you see that that's what's going on with abortion? Except if you don't vaccinate you'll actually be affecting a large majority of people and risking your children's lives?

It just befuddles me. The people want to ban abortion but then turn around and say that a mandatory vaccination (Which vaccines exist to protect people) is against their beliefs. 
One is a personal thing that doesn't affect anyone and the other is preventing large scale outbursts of sickness. 
Ahhhh I just don't understand the thought process. It's just aggravating. 
"Oh it's not right to force me to vaccinate my children" but then they also go "it's completely okay to take away women's rights to safe abortions". I don't understand it. Maybe I'm thinkin too far into it...but I just don't understand how someone can be so double sided. 
I'm for mandatory vaccines by the way. The only reason that people in the US can afford not to get them is because everyone who has gotten them is saving their hide. 
I'm also pro choice. The two go against one another? I don't think so when your decision to not vaccinate could lead to the death of my baby. Whereas abortion only affects the woman involved.

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I get what you're saying about the link between abortion and vaccines. I'm pro-vaccine, Pro-choice, but anti-mandatory vaccines. I can't speak for anyone else, but my thoughts on it go something like this:

Yes, there is proven benefit to having a very large majority of the population vaccinated (herd-immunity) however, making them mandatory sets a precedent that could be used to make other medical procedures mandatory that infringe on the rights of others. In the past, even as recent as 2013, people have used the threat of mandatory medical procedures against others as a way to forcibly sterilize them. 
Something like this, which has roots in a beautiful idea for the greater good, opens us up to a slippery slope of misuse that quite frankly, I feel can't be trusted. But again, that's just me.

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Oh man! 2 debates in one!😂

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O think the difference is the decision to vaccinate or not has an effect on the rest of society.

I think the negative effects of not vaccinating (measles is making a comeback, a disease that was virtually eradicated) are too heavy to weigh against the slight infringement of rights that mandatory vaccination would be.

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If kids can't take peanut butter to school why can they take mumps whopping cough and everything else? In the state where I live you can't enlist in school unless you're vaccinated and now they're changing it to unless your vaccinated OR have a note from your doctor saying you're against it!

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Someone who is against abortion would argue that abortion is "killing" the fetus. They believe that the death of the child has more affect (both on the child's life and the world as a whole) than their decision not to vaccinate.
Also, not all people who are against abortion are also against vaccinations. Not all people who are for vaccinations are for abortions.

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What about the vaccines that contain aborted fetal cells?? Just further lumping the two arguments together.

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I'm pro choice, pro vaccine, but anti mandatory vaccine. I think better education about vaccinations would help. I just don't think the government should have any say about people's bodies

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I'm not super involved in the vaccine debate but I think it'd be fantastic if women would vaccinate their kids before tossing them into school and stuff. Anyone who's seen my comments already knows my stance on abortion. (Pro choice). 
Mandatory vaccines, I'm guessing that means you'll be fined for not getting them? 
Anyways, I think that if people don't want to be forced to vaccinate then people shouldn't be forced to keep a fetus as well. It's no fun being stripped of your rights.

I didn't do a wonderful job on this topic😂 but Shannon had a really good comment that I agree with.

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I am pro-vaccine, but anti-mandatory vaccine. The risks of NOT vaccinating far outweigh the very slim possibility of experiencing a complication from a vaccine. However, I don't feel it's the government's place to FORCE anyone to place a substance into their body against their will.

I don't really see the correlation between vaccines and abortion. Vaccination is a medical issue. Abortion (in my opinion) is more of a moral issue (in most cases).

Those of us who think you should vaccinate your kids can't force you to do so. Those of us who don't agree with abortion can't force you to not have one. Neither are legally mandatory.

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Vaccinations and abortions! 
Heavy.

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