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PUBLIC HEALTH

Mandatory vaccinations of children for public school is a governmental overreach. The rational most cited being a public health issue and getting vaccinations will protect students from contracting potentially serious diseases. But there is a missing logical step in this supposition. If one kid is not vaccinated and contracts measles, the other kids with the vaccination would not be affected. It should be the parents choice over all vaccinations, the family unit should be the decider of the risk reward/factor not government. A private school would be justified in requiring vaccinations because people would be free to attend somewhere else, but this is not the case with the government monopoly on public schools. This is yet another petty issue that could easily be resolved with school choice vouchers. The latest progressive feel good phenomenon, coming out of Rick Perry's office of all places, is the HPV vaccination requirement, which is no doubt supported by scientific rationally minded women's groups (an oxymoron?). If 400 people died of cervical cancer in the state of Texas last year, then with the new requirement, 500 lives will be saved in 2030. The fiat power of government that can perpetrate mandatory vaccinations, is the same fiat power that perpetrated Tuskegee. Yes one can sign a waiver to get out of the requirement on philosophical or religious grounds in some cases, but is this the real reason for existence of the state?