Wholly Healthy: Vaccines — Speaking the Truth in Love

There’s a lot of discussion these days about vaccines. Many parents still holding to debunked theories about a connection between vaccines and autism have refused to vaccinate their children. As of this writing, there is a growing epidemic of measles around the country, a disease that is not without serious consequences — including death.

This is unfortunate and unnecessary. Links between autism and vaccinations have been disproved. As Christians we have to model good thinking, and, in this case, it’s good thinking for parents to have their children receive vaccinations. This isn’t to deny that side effects and adverse reactions can occur! But, on the whole, vaccines are probably safer than the antibiotics we take so happily for every viral upper-respiratory infection.

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