Parents, by law, have the power to choose what is best for their own children. The proposition of making vaccinations mandatory, regardless of individual health, beliefs, or views, takes this choice and destroys it completely. This decision to not be vaccinated needs to be a protected one. Mandatory vaccines strip children and parents of their own right to choose based on their opinions and values. When the government takes personal decisions, like individual body health, and makes it a matter of law, that decision loses its intimacy. With mandatory vaccinations, forcing all children in the United States to abide by these health standards dissolves the opinions and views involved. Physician and former politician Ron Paul stated, “Intimately personal medical decisions should not be made by the government… Freedom over one’s physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give the government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.” Freedom is as right that we all possess, and freedom to choose what we put in our bodies is undoubtedly included.
Additionally, when the majority of children in America are taken into consideration, individual juvenile body systems fight off harmful things all on its own. Very few children would catch the diseases that they are being vaccinated against, so, in the eyes of many, natural immunity, or natural infection, is a better option in comparison to unnecessary vaccinations. Natural infection, “often provides more complete immunity than a series of vaccinations” (Mayo). Most argue that children are better off just fighting infection on their own, and most are correct.
​Furthermore, despite studies after studies on vaccinations and their supposed safety, some medical professionals and parents believe that some vaccinations cause other ailments, like diabetes and autism, and rightfully so. The theory that all vaccinations are perfectly safe is, as previously stated, just a theory.  Not enough information is available to the public to fully prove that vaccinations only help, not hurt. Dr. Sears, an American pediatrician, stated, “Some physicians believe that thimerosal, an organic mercury compound found in trace amounts in one flu vaccine for children and other vaccines for adults, is linked to autism.” Theories leave room for error, so the possibility of other problems related to vaccinations is perfectly plausible and a valid fear to possess.