Argumentative Essay On Vaccines

Today’s vaccines have become much safer and reliable way to prevent many diseases, unlike before when people first started doing experiments on vaccines. Every parent has a choice to vaccinate their children or not. Parents should be required to vaccinate their children to protect them and other people around them. Vaccines have been protecting people for thousands of years now. Before we came up with vaccines people were dying from small pox, polio, aids and many more different diseases. These diseases are the reasons why scientist try so hard to make vaccines.
The American Academy of Pediatrics states that "most childhood vaccines are 90%-99% effective in preventing disease." Vaccines save 2.5 million children from preventable diseases every year, which equates to roughly 285 children saved every hour. Sometimes vaccines can cause serious or fatal side effects. All vaccines carry a risk of a life-threatening allergic reaction. This is why some parents are hesitate about getting the vaccine for their children. Vaccines may be linked to learning disabilities, asthma, autism, diabetes,

A few reasons why parents do not get a vaccine is because, many vaccines so soon will overwhelm to the baby's immune system, vaccines don't really work anyway—look at last year's flu vaccine, and Forcing people to vaccinate is a violation of their rights. (Haelle). Many people believe getting their child vaccinated will hurt them more them help them. They are not looking at the bigger picture. Parents that do not get their child vaccinated are hurting themselves because if a child gets the disease it will more than likely kill them. They are also hurting other kids that are not old enough to get the vaccine. If a child without the vaccine is sick and comes in to contact with a young baby that has not got their shot yet, the baby is going to be put in danger because they could possibly get the disease