I have maintained that not vaccinating children is akin to child abuse. Here’s taking it one step further:
Respectful Insolence and Kevin, M.D., characterize parents who refuse to vaccinate their children as guilty of child neglect. I’ll go one step further. These parents’ selfish decisions are hurting more than their own children. By defeating one of the core missions of public health — that of conferring herd immunity from easily preventable communicable diseases — these parents are harming entire populations. They are hurting other people’s children. To put it coarsely but accurately, they are enemies of the people.
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