{"id":9131,"date":"2018-11-19T15:18:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9131"},"modified":"2019-04-18T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T22:37:44","slug":"3-ethical-reasons-for-vaccinating-your-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9131","title":{"rendered":"3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>The Conversation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Joel Michael Reynolds <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/87fcfe6ec2b34ca8900f4e7bc1e5cf81\">billboards are popping up<\/a> suggesting that vaccines can kill children, when the science behind vaccination is crystal clear \u2013 vaccinations are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25086160\">extremely safe<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers who study the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Values-and-Vaccine-Refusal-Hard-Questions-in-Ethics-Epistemology-and\/Navin\/p\/book\/9781138790650\">beliefs of anti-vaxxers<\/a> have found <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/anti-vaccination-beliefs-dont-follow-the-usual-political-polarization-81001\">many different reasons<\/a>, not just religious or political, as to why some parents refuse to get their children vaccinated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=igbI6WoAAAAJ\">bioethicist<\/a>  who investigates how societal values impact medicine, I consider such  decisions to be downright indefensible. And here are three reasons why.  . . [<a rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/background\/\/procedures\/other004.aspx\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conversation Joel Michael Reynolds Across the country, billboards are popping up suggesting that vaccines can kill children, when the science behind vaccination is crystal clear \u2013 vaccinations are extremely safe. Researchers who study the beliefs of anti-vaxxers have found many different reasons, not just religious or political, as to why some parents refuse to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9131\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,3303],"tags":[3671],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethical-commentary","category-vaccinations","tag-joel-michael-reynolds"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9131\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Conversation Joel Michael Reynolds Across the country, billboards are popping up suggesting that vaccines can kill children, when the science behind vaccination is crystal clear \u2013 vaccinations are extremely safe. 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