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I am a mother of two. I was vaccinated as a child and suffered no ill effects. I have already vaccinated my oldest child for all the recommended shots except the MMR and chickenpox. I will do the same for my second child who is due mid-February 2009.
I found out from reliable sources that the measles, mumps, rubella, or MMR vaccine was manufactured using an aborted fetus. The fetus was aborted for the purpose of making the vaccine. There are alternatives put out by Merck, the company that makes the MMR vaccine, for the measles and mumps which use chicken instead of human embryos. However, the only alternative for the rubella vaccine is available only in Europe and Japan. I have yet to vaccinate for measles and mumps because I have found that they will not be available until sometime in the spring of 2009. I hope that the rubella vaccine will be available in the United States soon.
The chickenpox vaccine, I have heard, besides having been manufactured using an aborted fetus, is not very effective and reduces and person's immunity to shingles when they become adults. For these reasons, I am not going to vaccinate my children for chickenpox and am hoping they will contract it as I did as a child...thru contact with another child who has chickenpox. It is realively mild if contracted when the child is not still an infant or not entering or close to entering adulthood.
I make sure my sources are reliable by asking people who I trust to tell the truth where they get their information.
I hope this information helps others in their decision to vaccinate or not.

Thank you,
Kathryn

posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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