A measles outbreak in Texas traces to a congregation of a megachurch whose leader,
Kenneth Copeland, reportedly has warned followers away from vaccines, advocating for faith healing and pushing the debunked notion that vaccines cause autism. One of Copeland’s churches, Eagle Mountain International Church in North Texas, is the epicenter of the
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As a mother of a child with autism (possibly two, youngest is getting tested next month) the whole anti-vaccine movement makes me RAGE-Y. The fact that people still believe that vaccines cause autism when it has been debunked over and over again is ridiculous. The fact that people willfully ignore the fact that refusing to get your child vaccinated not only puts their life in danger but endangers others by risking bringing back diseases that were all but wiped out by these vaccines? RAAAAAGE.
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And as the parent of a child also on the spectrum, Autism isn't deadly. Measles, etc., definitely can be.
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Because basically, these people are saying that they'd rather risk their child dying of a horrible disease than risk them having autism. That is so incredibly offensive and idiotic.
Of course, most of the times these people genuinely believe that it won't happen to them and choose to ignore the scientific evidence that vaccines are the only reason we've beaten back so many diseases that used to wipe out large groups of people. And they choose to ignore the fact that getting your child vaccinated does not just benefit your child and not getting your child vaccinated does not just put your child at risk, but puts the general population and those who can not get vaccines due to being too young or too old or other various conditions, at risk.
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