There has always been a argument on whether you should or shouldn’t get vaccines. My stance on vaccines is that I am against it. Ever since I was younger I had never gotten vaccines because my mother didn’t believe in it. When it came to school my mom would have to get an affidavit request for exemption from immunization for reasons of conscience from the Texas Department of Health and Human Services to avoid getting shots that are required for school.

My mom said, “Vaccines have many chemicals in them that can cause various neurological issues. I feel that injecting these chemicals into our children can overload their bodies natural abilities and hinder their immune systems from developing properly. More studies are needed to prove that the chemicals used are not causing the many illnesses seen today.”

After getting vaccines there are side effects like life-threatening allergies, long-term seizures, comas and permanent brain damage. Most common side effects that are experienced from vaccines are muscle and joint pain, headaches, mild fever and shiver, etc. these are things I don’t want to experience and put myself at risk. It might be a low risk for the life threatening side effects but I refuse to take the risk because without getting vaccines I’m still at risk to get sick. I’ve gone 17 years without getting vaccines and I’m just as healthy as a kid with vaccines.

There are hundreds of kinds of diseases that don’t have vaccines or a cure so I would rather take the risk of not getting the vaccines and getting one of the side effects. The percent of the kids exempt from getting vaccines is 2.02% in Austin ISD. Many parents get their kids vaccines because of the requirement for vaccines at school and because of the pressure given by the doctors about vaccines.

The government shouldn’t intervene with a person’s medical choices. It should be the decision of the person or guardian to get toxic medicine into your body. Overall vaccines or not you’re still at risk for diseases and getting sick in hundreds of different ways so getting vaccinations is not a necessity, and is something you’re able to live without.