{"id":8094,"date":"2015-02-04T21:02:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T21:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2015-02-04T21:02:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T21:02:44","slug":"americans-love-freedom-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8094","title":{"rendered":"Americans love freedom, but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>A growing battle over mandatory vaccinations for public school children is turning into a culture war of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>Libertarian-leaning Republicans suggest that requiring vaccinations against communicable diseases impinges on parental rights to <em>choose<\/em> whether their children should be vaccinated. The main medical enemy is measles.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/mr-pauls-and-mr-christies-irresponsible-comments-about-measles-vaccinations\/2015\/02\/03\/b269c9da-abc1-11e4-9c91-e9d2f9fde644_story.html<\/p>\n<p>Have those who contend the issue is choice actually considered some of the consequences of their request for greater latitude on this matter?<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post editorial takes aim at U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., for their irresponsible comments regarding vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>They both should know better than to mutter what they&#8217;ve said about the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Especially, Dr. Paul, an\u00a0ophthalmologist by training. As a medical doctor, he ought to be acutely sensitive to the value of vaccines as guardians of the public health. But he isn&#8217;t. He&#8217;s instead a politician pandering to one of the bases of his party in his budding quest to win the Republican Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>As the Post opined: &#8220;Both the governor and senator seem to be suggesting that it is fine for parents to avoid vaccinations for their children. But is this really a matter of individual rights? Liberty does not confer the right to endanger others \u2014 whether at a school or Disneyland or anywhere else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Measles cases are on the increase, endangering children and those who come in contact with them. Protecting the public health ought to be one\u00a0of those areas where government involvement shouldn&#8217;t be challenged.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it is being challenged by politicians who should know better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing battle over mandatory vaccinations for public school children is turning into a culture war of sorts. Libertarian-leaning Republicans suggest that requiring vaccinations against communicable diseases impinges on parental rights to choose whether their children should be vaccinated. The main medical enemy is measles. http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/mr-pauls-and-mr-christies-irresponsible-comments-about-measles-vaccinations\/2015\/02\/03\/b269c9da-abc1-11e4-9c91-e9d2f9fde644_story.html Have those who contend the issue is choice actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8094\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Americans love freedom, but &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,14],"tags":[73,965,2782,2976,3769,3822,3910,5085],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-chris-christie","tag-libertarianism","tag-measles","tag-public-health","tag-rand-paul","tag-republican-party-nomination","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}