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There’s a proposal in the UK to “encourage” more parents to have their children vaccinated.  They intend to use the stick approach rather than the carrot – for example one of the “punishments” that parents who don’t allow their child to receive the vaccines will be that their child won’t be allowed to enter school.  Another proposed “punishment” is that they will be financially penalized.  What kind of crazy idea is that?  Isn’t the UK a democracy?  Or should that be democrazy? 

There is so much talk about these vaccines not being as safe to all children as they were initially thought.  Some of this is supported by research.  There is no research that says the vaccinations are guaranteed 100% safe to all children, and that’s why parents are becoming more wary about letting their children have these vaccines. 

If there’s any possibility that a child may be adversely affected by some chemicals that are injected in order to combat other heath issues, shouldn’t that be the parent’s decision?  Isn’t it the child’s parent who will have to live with not only the fact that their child has a health problem that was possibly caused from a vaccination, but also that they were the ones who made the decision to vaccinate?  At least if the worst happens, they know they made their decision based on the facts available and it was their decision.  With the proposed UK approach, parents will have to live with the results of a decision made not on their research, but also on what will happen to them if they choose to ignore what the Government decides.

I may be wrong but my idea of a free choice country is not one where the Government makes decisions that are better left to the parents who are raising the children.