Do Do you think the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine should be compulsory and why?
No. The safety of the MMR still hasn’t been proven beyond doubt. If anyone disagrees, I suggest they talk to someone whose child was adversely affected by it. Mumps is not fatal, nor does it usually have any after-effects. Rubella isn’t a danger for children – it is dangerous for pregnant women to come into contact with, so there should be a way of protecting women of childbearing age without putting our children at potential risk of vaccine damage. Measles is the only illness of the three which could potentially be fatal. I spoke to a GP about this – she said that the only case of measles damage she had ever seen was encephalitis. The patient already had complex health problems at the time of the measles infection and so was at heightened risk of complications anyway. We don’t live in a dictatorship and so we shouldn’t be forced into any kind of vaccination programme without our full, informed consent. EDIT – Jake, we are not all zealots. Some of us actually know what we are talking a
