[NVIC] Vaccination Ethics

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BL Fisher Note:

When it happens to your child, the risks are 100 percent. Doctors are

fallible and there are no guarantees.

Therefore, the only " ethical " thing to do when a medical intervention like

vaccination carries with it a risk of injury or death, is to allow

individuals the right to informed consent to taking the risk for themselves

or their children. Those who do not want to take the risk of being injured

or dying from an infectious disease, have the right to risk becoming injured

or dying from vaccination. Those who do not want to take the risk of being

injured or dying from a vaccination, have the right to risk becoming injured

or dying from an infectious disease.

The vaccinated should have nothing to fear from the unvaccinated IF the

vaccines work as well as doctors maintain they do. The only " free riders " in

America are those who force their beliefs on others in an effort to destroy

the spirit and intent of the US Constitution, which first and foremost seeks

to protect minorities from being abused by the majority.

We should all be worried whenever anyone tries to demonize and target

minorities who hold different beliefs from the majority in an attempt to pit

citizen against citizen. The first step toward totalitarianism is to target

the minority in question as a threat to the public health and welfare. The

second step is to encourage citizens to identify and round up fellow

citizens who belong to the minority and destroy them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/magazine/19wwln_ethicist.html?ex=114110280

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The NY Times

February 19, 2006

The Ethicist

Vaccination Verdict

By RANDY COHEN

I am a teacher. I have friends who refuse to vaccinate their children for

fear of supposed side effects. Some have talked about getting faked doctors'

forms that say their children have been vaccinated so they can attend public

school. As someone legally and morally charged with the safety of children,

I plan to report them to their respective school districts if they do so.

Isn't this my duty? Anonymous, San Francisco

Reporting these counterfeits is something you may do but not something you

must do. Similarly, you have a professional obligation to reproach a student

in your own class who hands you a phony-baloney absence note. ( " Please

excuse me. . .I mean my son. . .for missing yesterday's quiz. I was — darn

it — he was feeling icky. " ) But you need not scour the city for bogus notes.

You would have a duty to report those unvaccinated children who pose a

serious imminent health threat, but that is not the case here, as long as

their numbers remain low. Dr. Serena Yoon explains: " Of course, it's better

to vaccinate everyone, but technically, you don't have to vaccinate everyone

to prevent disease. " If the vast majority of students are vaccinated, the

school population is protected.

This is not to defend the deceitful parents. They are contemplating the

obvious ethical transgression of filing false documents and, equally

dubious, are being alarmists. While vaccination is not without risk, the

consensus within the medical establishment is that the far greater risk is

to leave children unvaccinated. It further discredits these parents that

they propose to become free riders, reaping the benefits of vaccination but

letting everyone else's kids bear the (admittedly slight) risk.

What's more, these folks have executed the rare triple play of being

deceitful, alarmist and boneheaded: California will waive the immunization

requirement if a parent is convinced it is harmful or contrary to his

beliefs.

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