Soloist:
I can speak for several churches, mostly from the west coast,
but my statements basically line up with general views of the north west American churches of the conservative slant.
i appreciate your overall response above, this part reflects RZehr’s OP and his additional posts, he with young children.
altho i’m still surprised “HPV and Cancer link” was new to him. reports and effects (push to vaccinate withoout regard to individual lives, religious beliefs, etc.) have been around for years.
i asked my daughter about her experience with their pediatrician, she said he became aggressive and angry that she chose to pass on this one vaccine. 5 years ago? i’d read about it before it came up.
i do not see analogies to measles (or child mutilation measures) as valid.
measles is highly contagious for everyone, no personal contact of any kind needed. as are other childhood-centric diseases.
i’m dismayed how U.S. legal citizens are required to have so many vaccines, with all formal records, documents, etc., yet hoards of fully undocumented folks are allowed entry - with corresponding outbreaks of measles, even TB. reports are deliberately tampered with to a great extent, keeping the public as uninformed as possible (wrt both disease and crime).
my 16 year old grdaughter has had so many required/recommended vaccines from birth, i couldn’t count, including for COVID, the idea her family would not have a say in this particular one, without pressure to comply, is a bit much.
i must have been about 4 when the polio vaccine became available.
i was so young, but i remember my mother’s excitement. she couldn’t get all of us in line fast enough!
those mysterious pink-stained sugar cubes. we weren’t allowed much sugar, so, memorable! exotic. lol
i had more than one type of measles, mumps, chicken pox. HORRIBLE memories.
there were other awful diseases around .. whooping cough, scarlet fever, and more.
being a parent in those days was terrifying. death lurking ..
my children had chicken pox, were spared the others.
my grdaughter didn’t have chicken pox.
she has had so many vaccinations! like a pin cushion. what is right??!
all things considered, knowing my family as i do, i’m glad her parents have chosen to pass on Gardasil.
as others are saying regarding this topic, that doesn’t mean “forever,” “no matter circumstances.”
for the present. for the precious present.