Vaccination worries

[EnergyhealerMum]

Yet another friend asked me today for any information/advice about vaccinations. Her local school is trying to tell her that her daughter will not be allowed at the local school unless she is fully vaccinated. She says the whole thing is a local powerplay by the local church and the GP and the school's headmaster, who are all friends and very controlling. This is abominable bullying. There is, thankfully, no law in this country to allow schools to do this. I suggested she contact her local LEA, and gave her some information from "The Informed Parent" - an organisation that gathers and shares information about vaccinations - including some that the medical world does not always share with parents. Any other suggestions for her?

I feel that vaccinations should be every parent's choice. We have to live with the results when they go wrong. I researched vaccinations very carefully before I made the decision about my son. I am qualified as a midwife, as well as now working as a complementary energy therapist, so I feel I looked at both sides, but I decided against vaccination. There is just too much risk involved if you look at all the evidence. I have plenty of information if anyone would like a copy, including an article by a GP entitled "Why my Daughter Will NOT be having the MMR vaccination." It makes VERY interesting reading. One really good way to protect children is to use homoeopathy. It can be used prophylactically - like vaccinations, only completely safe - or if children do become ill.

The headline recently about the possibility of children having to be vaccinated before they are allowed to go to school sent shivers down my spine. What kind of totalitarian state is Britain becoming? I can hear the pharmaceutical companies rubbing their hands in glee at the profits they will make. This is the government "trying a policy out" on us to see how we react. Any parents who want to maintain their right to decide - please write to your MP condemning this idea. It is surely our right as parents to make such decisions for our children.

If vacs were made compulsory, I would consider emigrating rather than force on to my ds. Total disgrace!!

Another case of following blindly in the footsteps of the USA... Most states try to prevent unvaccinated children from starting school, and some go as far as treating refusal to vaccinate as a social services issue. Very scary if that is the way this country is going. There is a book by Stephanie Cage MD, an American paediatrician, which gives a very balanced view of the pros and cons, including lots of info the medical establishment here won't give.

So if you emigate, don't go to US, or to France for that matter, I think vaccination is compulsory there, too. Japan withdrew MMR in favour of single vaccines.

I don't agree with vaccination policy in the UK at all and I do think that there are conflicts of interest. There have been many vaccination threads on MN over the years I've been here, and actually my first post on here was to start a thread about it which got a little heated

I have aired my view here many a time....but needless to say that I am completely opposed to any kind of coercion on the matter.

I have a big issue with the whole concept of vaccinating toddlers with the main idea of not so much protecting them from disease, as protecting entirely different segments of the population. And the argument that it's difficult to vaccinate pre-teens has now gone out of the window with the introduction of the HPV vaccine.