I understand the fears. But vaccinating children should be compulsory

FULL STORY by Suzanne Moore: The GUARDIAN…..

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I feel that we must prevent disease where we can, and that vaccination should be compulsory or we will slip backwards. Why are we not choosing to prevent deaths from cervical cancer? Partly, again, because of this fear of vaccines, and partly because parents don’t want to imagine their teenage daughters as sexually active. Would they rather imagine them dead?

Part of the conversation around parental choice is symptomatic of a wider disease in our society: atomisation. The anti-vax lobby, in their purity, care about their own individual children, not our children in the plural, and not the children of the most marginalised groups, who are the most likely to get ill.