So we've all talked about it in a few other threads, and I know lots of people on here both Left and Right agree vaccinations are not only good but necessary for a modern society. Some have even said they should be mandatory, not giving them to kids for example is a form of neglect.

 

Well California is proposing legislation that would do away with exemptions. So essentially you will now have mandatory forced inoculation by the state. http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_274...nation-law

Great who doesn't want healthy kids right?

 

But what about the precedent this is setting, or maybe the precedent already exist and it's an issue we need to debate, does the State have the authority to mandate parents regardless of their input have a medical procedure or treatment for their children? That leads to the question who is the final authority of a child, the Parent or the State? Who should be the final authority? I don't think this is a party issue either, I'm seeing just as many Republicans as Democrats support mandatory vaccinations. But to me, the idea that the State is the final authority on my child's health care, that to me is 100 times more dangerous then some parents opting out of a vaccination.

 

History has proven the power you give to the State will always grow, it will always expand and it will never be returned.

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