The idea behind vaccines is admirable, and were there NO risk for possible long-term physical, mental, or neurological injury, I might be supportive of vaccines. No matter how admirable the idea, there are toxins that can cause injurious reactions in some people including babies and children...and there's no telling who it will injure, and the trusting parents are co-victims who have to live with the knowledge that they allowed their child to be harmed. Pharma companies are never liable, and neither are the doctors...only the trusting parents who've only done what they were told.
Either choice is a gamble. Study the diseases...those that the vaccines are supposed to prevent, and study the vaccines...there are plenty of adverse effects that happen but are denied by the doctors. Weigh the risks knowing that both options could lead to suffering. Your child may not be immediately or visibly affected...but other children have been. Is it fair to make every parent take that chance with their child? There's no test or guarantee. Parents sign a waiver to take all responsibility for vaccine injury...so why are we stigmatized for deciding that it should not be our responsibility if our child is injured by vaccines and instead choose not to take that chance? I know that I should be thinking of all the children who can't be vaccinated, but who's to say that mine won't react negatively? When (if) he does react, will that be so important anymore? Will I feel ok that he was injured so that others can be safe? As long as I did what was best for everyone else, it won't matter that I allowed my child to be harmed...? NO. I would hate myself. I would blame myself for the rest of my life. I would regret my decision every time I look at my child suffering for the rest of his life. Because a week or two of suffering from measles or rubella might have been prevented. Because the flu has gone from being something everyone gets every couple of years to something that apparently threatens to kill the entire population every year. Because chickenpox is so terrible to a minority of children, and a major irritation to most that it must never be seen again...while the vaccine can cause shingles to present in children who were never naturally immunized through virus contraction rather than vaccine. Because we no longer allow our immune systems to naturally handle exactly what it was created/evolved to do. The immune system was never evolved/ created to survive neurotoxins like mercury and aluminum...we will not evolve/adapt to handle these...we will just continue to become more chronically ill as our generations progress.
Weigh the risks. Do your own research. Talk to toxicologists, naturopaths, and your family doctor. Look at who has the most to gain from chronically sick kids.

Jenny

I once thought that, but there are issues - several - with flu vaccine, and there are issues with the culture. The culture is coercive, slightly different in the UK of course but still coercive (and deceitful). The problem with flu vaccine, apart from its excipients and adjuvants, is (1) that most years they don't even anticipate the right strains of the virus and most flu type illnesses are not virus strain, (2) they aren't very effective even with the right strain with the elderly, (3) the mortality rates from flu are a complete fiction, (4) the adverse effects are under-researched. On top of that it is the same persuaders and the same arguments.

I believe, if we are going to re-habilitate vaccines at all, we are going to have have a much harder headed assessment of their benefits and risks, there has to be a very different and less cavalier approach from the agencies, the agencies have to be disentangled from the manufacturers, and on the basis of primum non nocere the vaccines have to be administered in a spirit of caution and be far fewer in number.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/01/sir-liams-skeleton-the-uk-department-of-health-fabricates-flu-deaths-to-boost-vaccination.html

But everyone must realize that there cannot be a vaccine which is non-neurotoxic. It is NOT just the metals and chemicals used to preserve and adjuvant the vaccine (though even at that, people should be aware that there is no way to take the aluminum out and still have a viable vaccine: not recommending it, just saying). The very nature of a vaccine is to be a serum which provokes an inflammatory response from the immune system of the person vaccinated. Without the inflammatory response, no antibodies would be created. But when you provoke inflammation, you not only harness the wind, but you reap the whirlwind with tragic frequency. The immune system can often become so inflamed (encephalitis) that it causes permanent brain damage (autism, behavioral and learning disorders, seizure disorders) or it may sensitize the immune system to substances resembling vaccine ingredients, creating autoimmune diseases of every kind. Everyone should be antivaccine. Coulter said that every single person born since WWII who had ever gotten the DPT (virtually everyone) had suffered vaccine encephalitis. There are treatments available for every vaccine-preventable disease (antibiotics in some cases, vitamin C and A therapy, herbal and homeopathic remedies, the avoidance of fever reducers). These treatments are safe, vaccines are not, and cannot by their very nature be. Everyone must be completely aware that he is risking the life and health of the person vaccinated, and only if he's sure the disease vaccinated for is a very real and extremely dangerous threat for that person at that time, should he even consider taking the risk.

Thanks for speaking out (including Robert Scott Bell's interview) and for putting the above so well into words!

I'm getting a tattoo that says "Anti-Vaxxer" and wear it as a badge of honor!