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I have links to several legitimate sources that refute this post, if anyone has someone posting this nonsense in their newsfeed and needs them
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@Grace: That makes way more sense. I know when you google stuff like that you get a lot of really biased articles.
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@grizz: oh please post, just because I'm interested in actually being knowledgable about stuff.
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@Mrs. Sunshine: Amen to your post.
I just don't really understand how it's furthering the pro-life cause to refuse to vaccinate on the basis of how the vaccinations may have come to exist. I'm fairly certain that the fetuses weren't aborted for the sake of scientific research, so, really, the vaccinations are just the result of man using his/her God-given brain to make something good from something horribly sad. That seems extremely pro-life to me. (Perhaps I'm being entirely too simplistic in my thinking, but it seems logical to me.)
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Man alive...
There is a HUGE anti-vax community where I live and I swear half my facebook feed is very vocally anti-vax which drives me nuts. There is an actual nutrition counselor/healthy living blogger I follow who posted something very similar about how vaccines go against being a Christian. I am a Christian and extremely offended that someone would go so far as to say that life-saving science is against MY religion.
I have a high-tolerance for anti-vaxxers, I do. But when you tell me that I cannot love Jesus and vaccinate my child? I have a problem with that.
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To be honest the whole article made me want to puke, but the quote I can't get past is this one:
"Simple childhood illnesses are deceptively portrayed as deadly diseases."
Simple childhood illnesses?? Whooping cough, polio, meningitis, tetanus, diphtheria are SIMPLE CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES? It's not deceptive to portray these as deadly diseases because THEY ARE. I just can't even. -
Luckily this isn't such a big thing in the uk and I don't actually know anyone who is anti but it is still so infuriating. The worst argument for me is the 'I didn't vaccinate my kids and look how healthy they are' yes but the preemie next door might not be, or the boy with leukemia etc. Herd vaccination is the only way to protect our vulnerable members of society!
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@Snowdrop: anecdotal evidence is terrible. That's why there are highly scientific studies to show efficacy rates. Of course the likelihood of your child getting a dangerous illness will be minimal (although measles and pertussis are up there), so saying they're "healthy" is not decent evidence.
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Whaaaaat. So stupid.
@Mrs. Pen: Yes. I have a few of those people on my Facebook as well and it makes me so angry. I'm a Christian and I vaccinate my child...gasp!
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@Mrs. Pen: argh i think you might have miss read my comment! I was merely stating the most common anti-vac argument I hear and why it irritates me (because obviously I don't agree with it). Usually it isn't the unvaccinated child who suffers, it is the other members of society which that child might unwittingly infect who aren't, for what ever reason, able to cope with the disease.
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@Snowdrop: I was responding more toward your statement that anti-vaxxers try to use "my child is healthy" as plausible evidence
I didn't mean "you" as in YOU. But as a general term.
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@Mrs. Pen: ah ok I get you! couldn't bare to be potentially thought of as having hat view point haha
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yeah, i'm a christian, but there is no pastor propaganda and i certainly love jesus and give my kids vaccines. i couldn't get past the first paragraph and could barely skim to know this lady is crazy.
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I would de-friend anyone in my feed that posted this in a positive light. Luckily everyone I know is pro-vax, because this propaganda turns my stomach.
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I love Jesus and life saving Vaccines.
I don't love dumbasses like this woman.
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@MamaMoose: amen
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@MamaMoose: I love you!
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@Smurfette: @Leialou:
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I couldn't even finish the article. I tried, I really did, as I wanted to get to the comments, but alas, I have a very low tolerance for stupidity. What asinine arguments she makes; it certainly does not bode well for society that people actually believe this crap....and it's even scarier that people have shared it on FB...
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@ShootingStar: I don't usually delete someone for just one thing they post, but I'm deleting the people who shared this in a positive light. I just can't.
It also infuriates me that all the people who shared it go to church with us and don't vax their kids. I don't exactly feel safe putting him in the church nursery since we've got confirmed measles cases in our county.
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As a christian I must say......
this is the dumbest thing i've ever read!!!!! UGH! If someone posted that in my news feed I'd have a HARD time not commenting on it. Glad I haven't seen it around. I am surprised though that wv is one of two states who've done away with religious exemption if that is true.
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What @MamaMoose: said!
This lady is a lunatic. If the article didn't do it for you, take a look around her website. The "Meet Megan" section is a real doozy.
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I personally enjoyed all the contradictions in her about me section
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@Mrs. Jump Rope: lol!
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well, i was satisfied with her stupidity just from reading the comments here, but now, a few of you have said things that have made me go "hmmm" and now I want to go LOL at her. Off I go.
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I wonder if "God" supports a big ego, because this lady's is off the chart!
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Woof. I couldn't read past the third paragraph. I did make it though her birth post though. It was equally enlightening.
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Can we please refer to our husbands as man meat from now on?
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@Hoots: I have no idea why I clicked on that link. I regretted it almost immediately. It's too close to bedtime for me to get this pissed off.
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@Mrs. Jump Rope: Oh yes, chip-eating man meat.
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@MamaMoose: Thought you'd enjoy this one: http://www.livingwhole.org/this-mama-isnt-scared-of-the-shmeasle-measles/
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She is bat crap crazy. I believe that God gave us the knowledge and know-how to save lives with vaccines for a reason.
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@Mrs. Jump Rope: Doesn't everyone already?! I totes thought that was the norm!
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I wasn't going to click on the link, but then I did, because I like to punish myself, apparently.
@lawbee11: My favorite comment from the article you linked:
“Seriously, applying global statistics of developing countries to the United States is like doing an obesity campaign in Africa based on U.S statistics. Yes, it’s completely rational to compare the second fattest nation in the world to a starving country.”
Africa is not a country.
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@Pepper: snort.
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@Pepper: I saw that!!! Then she proceeded to say that she didn't call Africa a country.
....here's your sign
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@lawbee11: That article makes me ragey. But hey, at least she cited in this article, with the oh-so-up-to-date medical journals from 1971 and 1981.
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@lawbee11: maybe no one f'ing dies in America from measles because we have the f'ing MMR vaccine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the third strike against you for making me pissed off right before bed.
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@lawbee11: The dumb, it hurts.
If she had a child (or even knew a child) who was immunocompromised, I wonder if she would feel the same way? Yeah, *your* kid might not die from "schmeasle measles", but other children can. Ugh, I'm done!
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