- Question
- Are vaccines safe?
- Position‹3 of 3
We cannot say whether vaccines are safe
This position frames vaccine safety as uncertain and a matter of parental choice. It argues that parents have a fundamental right to decide their child's welfare, that vaccine-hesitant families are unfairly stigmatised, and that withholding vaccines from some in a trial raises ethical questions.
Supporting arguments · 3
- Parents should choose whether to immunise their childCompulsory immunisation leads to concerns about freedom of choice and personal autonomy.
- Witholding vaccines from some for a trial is unethicalWe cannot know if vaccines are safe because the only way to test it would be through randomized control trials, which are deemed unethical.
- Vaccine hesitant parents are alienated by society