Generally, people don't avoid vaccination out of malice or negligence, they do so out of fear and ignorance. If we start separating children from parents who aren't vaccinating that will just increase the fear and uncertainty. Instead of using the extreme tactics of fascist regimes, we should continue efforts to educate and continue efforts to pass no-exemption laws that will result in fines.
Most parents who don't vaccinate simply got the wrong information on the internet, it would be a severe overreaction to remove their children from their custody.
Like, y'all understand that sometimes a long and arduous process of education and careful passage of laws is actually better than some extreme worst case scenario bullshit right?
Where do you draw the line though? At what level of neglect and endangerment do you as the government step in and keep the parent from killing their kids. Or alternatively, how do you act when their abuse and neglect killed their children.
This isn't some absurd hypothetical, parents have been and still are being arrested and tried because they put their children in danger medically.
Parents sometimes don't vaccinate because of fear and ignorance.
They also sometimes don't seek to treat their kid's cancer because of fear and ignorance.
Or get their child HIV antivirals because of fear and ignorance.
I don't doubt for one second that all of the parents love their children and wish the best for them, but that doesn't mean their actions didn't put their kids in direct danger and end their lives in the process.
It's not something that can be solved by fines or even education. The more you try to educate someone who is deeply entrenched in their beleifs, the
more they choose to believe it, even when confronted with evidence, which has been shown by multiple studies.
