Vaccinating Children Argumentative Essay

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Throughout time, there have been millions of different controversial topics. However, one of the most popular topics today has affected millions of children, or so they say. Should you or should you not encourage vaccinating children? Should you chance your children getting a deadly disease or should you chance the terrible illness of Autism? Over the years, there have been huge debates on whether or not vaccinations play a role in Autism. Autism is a mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people. Autism rates in developing countries have risen drastically in the past 20 years (CDCP,2018) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 68 children have been identified with ASD. ASD is about 4.5 times more common among boys (CDCP,2018). There are two different arguments over this controversial topic. Generally speaking, the parents that are for vaccinating their children believe that …show more content…

A 2013 CDC study added to previous research showing that vaccines do not cause ASD (CDCP, 2015). According to the article, this study looked at the number of antigens from vaccines during the first two years of life. Antigens are substances in vaccines that cause the body’s immune system to produce disease-fighting antibodies. People all over the world were curious to know the answer, just like many are today. The results from this study showed the total amount of antigen from vaccines received was the same between children with ASD and those that did not have ASD. This study showed that there was no link between vaccines and Autism. According to Gid M-K, hundreds of studies were done all over the world involving literally millions of children, to see whether there was any association whatsoever between autism and routine childhood immunizations. It turned out, of course, that there was no connection. (M-K,

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