{"id":19546,"date":"2015-02-06T09:40:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19546"},"modified":"2015-02-06T09:40:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:40:34","slug":"should-we-insist-on-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/02\/06\/should-we-insist-on-vaccinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Should We Insist on Vaccinations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Clark started a conversation on this topic with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sarah.clark.3114\/posts\/10153047704458704\" title=\"Sarah Clark's post\" target=\"_blank\">post on her Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My response to the question she posed was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDon&#8217;t mistake the anti-abortionists&#8217; highjacking of a legitimate technique for illegitimate purposes as deligitimizing the technique for legitimate purposes.<\/p>\n<p>If a woman decides to have an abortion, that does not endanger me, my relatives, or society as a whole. In this case, I have no right to tell the woman what she should or shouldn&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p>If a parent decides not to vaccinate a child, then that does threaten me, my family, and society as a whole. If the author of the article has proof, as he suggests he does, that the technique he suggests does work, then I would support it. If the technique does not work well enough, then I would suggest going back to a policy that I think we used to have. If you want to send your child to a public school, then you have to provide evidence of the required immunizations.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not want to have your child vaccinated, then find some other way to provide for the child&#8217;s education.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In continuation of the conversation, Sarah posted two very useful links.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/eohhs\/docs\/dph\/cdc\/immunization\/guidelines-vaccine-exclusions-school.pdf\" title=\"Massachusetts guidelines\" target=\"_blank\"> Massachusetts Department Of Public Health &#8211; Immunization Exemptions and Vaccine Preventable Disease Exclusion Guidelines in School Settings<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vaccines.procon.org\/view.resource.php?resourceID=003597\" title=\"State by state policies\" target=\"_blank\">State Vaccination Exemptions for Children Entering Public Schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Clark started a conversation on this topic with a post on her Facebook page. My response to the question she posed was: Don&#8217;t mistake the anti-abortionists&#8217; highjacking of a legitimate technique for illegitimate purposes as deligitimizing the technique for legitimate purposes. If a woman decides to have an abortion, that does not endanger me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19547,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19546\/revisions\/19547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}