Vaccination Argumentative Essay

In a world where disease and infection outbreaks scare the world, why shouldn’t people look for a way to completely eliminate those diseases. People have been trying to attain immunity for hundreds of years. One popular and deadly virus smallpox had its first vaccine developed in 1798 (“A Brief History of Vaccination”). Vaccines have only grown and expanded since 1798, and they have done wonders for the world. Unfortunately, for all of the good things that vaccines have done, there are people that think that getting vaccinations can cause more bad than good. People can argue for either getting vaccinated, or not getting vaccinated. Those against vaccinations believe that they shouldn’t have to get vaccines, think vaccines can cause autism, aren’t as important as other health services, and don’t prevent people from contracting diseases or infections they were vaccinated for. It is okay if someone does not want to get vaccinated, people are not forced to get vaccinations. If a person does not want to get vaccinated, or they don’t want their children to be vaccinated, there are a few exemptions. Every state has medical exemptions from vaccination. There are currently 47 states that allow religious exemptions from vaccinations, and of those 47, 18 states have exemptions based on philosophical …show more content…
There is data to back up that claim with reports from California and New York. In New York, the percentage of preschoolers found to have autism tripled from 1992 and 1999. In California, there was a 634 percent increase in autism cases from 1987 to 2002 (Glazer). One of the first reports that connected the MMR vaccine and autism came from a 1998 experiment by Andrew Wakefield and published in the Lancet. With that report coming out, the media spread it around along with their own headlines