Persuasive Speech On Vaccination

The future, what do you think when you hear the word future. As you now enter the final two years of your high school education, the pressures of determining what career you wish to pursue now hang in the balance of every decision you make. These decisions seem like the most difficult questions you will ever have to answer but I would like to turn your attention further into your future. Imagine your first child has just been delivered, beaming with joy your now willing to do anything to protect them. Without hesitation you ensure your child is vaccinated against all the terrible diseases that could potentially harm them. Now imagine the person sitting next to you has also delivered their first child but unlike you they decide against vaccinating

their bundle of joy, as a result both of your children fall victim to a deadly illness.

Good morning/afternoon Mrs Arnold, Miss Shiels and fellow classmates today I wish to instill upon you the many confronting and despondent factors that accompany the child vaccination debate in Australia.

Before I go any further I must inform you all that I strongly oppose the choice of not vaccinating and thus I will be providing the many arguments that reinforce the benefits of vaccinating the youth of Australia.

As I initiate my first argument I would like to address the misleading claims made by those who oppose immunisation in Australia. While some people may debate that vaccination leads to forsaken side effects like the development of autism, many of the world’s leading researches have proven this to be insufficient. The introduction to this fictitious proposition came after Dr Wakefield, a financial investor in an alternative vaccine to the measles, mumps and rubella or MMR vaccine enticed the population of new parents to reconsider their decision. While not every immunisation is 100% guaranteed of having no side effects,the scientific research performed by the Cochrane Collaboration proved on numerous occasions that the MMR vaccine cannot lead to autism. So why are these preposterous claims still making headlines in our society. Dr Katie Atwell,, project and research officer of the WA Immunisation campaign states that a child’s “best defense against the epidemics that used to kill and/or permanently disable millions of children and adults” are these vaccine’s that are available to any newborn citizen of Australia. So please answer me this, why are parents still questioning whether or not to vaccinate and protect their

children?

“The air is something we all share… by not vaccinating your child, your putting your child and my child at risk”. Melbourne’s federal MP Adam Bandt has recently called for action after proliferate statistics show just how many parents are willing to put not only their own children but the entire population of youth in Australia under threat of apprehending detrimental illnesses. After the ‘no jab no pay’ scheme was introduced in April of 2015, parents who decide against vaccinating their children will no longer receive child-care tax benefits. With contrasting effect, parents are now hiding the truth about their children’s immunisation history, leaving us with the question is this an ethical or a safety concern? Further inquisitions find people are more willing to fight for their ‘ethical right’ to make a decision than they are to fight for their child’s general health and welfare. This is not the future we want for Australia’s children, We must vaccinate now or live with the increasing threat of antogonising diagnosis in our future.

Before I begin my final argument I want to ask you all a question, if you could have a successful life with glowing memories of sufficient family and friends would you voluntarily choose to make unnecessary pain a part of your future? When tragedy strikes, the community of Australia mourn together, the loss of a