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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV:Denying children vaccination is a form a child abuse and should be illegal.

Vaccination saves lives. Parents who deny their children the right to vaccinations because of their superstitions or religious beliefs are harming their children and should be held legally responsible. Failing to vaccinate either your child and even yourself is irresponsible behavior and not only are you putting your child at risk, but you are also putting others around you at risk as well. Children who can't receive vaccinations and develop immunity to the diseases rely on the community to get vaccinated. Therefore, refusing to vaccinate your child is not only a form of child abuse, but it is also putting others at risk. It's not a personal choice issue. It's civic responsibility. Everyone should be vaccinated and everyone should be required to vaccinate their children.
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It should be a very weighty decision of when to force a medical procedure on a non-consenting person (in this case, the lack of consent from the surrogate decision maker).

The WHO estimates that worldwide the death toll from measles absent the vaccine would be in the same ball park as the current death toll from automobiles. Obviously, these are two different things but that gives you a perspective. Keep in mind that is only one disease, but that is also an estimate based on there being no vaccine, and not reduced vaccination rates. This is just to keep things in perspective.

The solution of mandatory vaccines answers a question that is a false dichotomy. Are there no measure which might accomplish the same thing with less drastic measures? There are lots of reasons to distrust medicine today, such as pharma reps and companies pressuring doctors to prescribe their brand names (thanks to pharmacies and the AMA selling prescription records and doctor's drug ID codes), to doctors guilds regulating who can perform what procedure based on revenue protectionism and not consumer protection. Furthermore, we are seeing courts actually forcing c-sections on VBACs (a forced surgery!) Is it a coincidence that people are distrusting medical professionals? Perhaps we should fix that before we make things worse by taking the aggressive, liberty infringing approach.

Remember that smoking hit an all-time low in the US this year, and that's without forcing medical procedures or treatments on anyone.