I think the YouTube video jab is unfair. At present my children are all vaccinated with what's legally required in my state, but I do have an interest in non-conventional and alternative medicines. That interest started as a response to how hard contraception is pushed as a matter of public health policy and by individual doctors, which …
I think the YouTube video jab is unfair. At present my children are all vaccinated with what's legally required in my state, but I do have an interest in non-conventional and alternative medicines. That interest started as a response to how hard contraception is pushed as a matter of public health policy and by individual doctors, which is probably pretty familiar to most practicing Catholic women. It isn't hard to go from that and wonder what else they might be wrong about.
The public health response to Covid also jarred a lot of people out of complacency. I'd love to just be able to trust everything the CDC says, or that doctors say, but I can't unknow what I have learned, and that's going to affect my decision making. If they use more force, I get more suspicious.
It was literally the reason given to me by an acquaintance; her reason for not vaccinating her children was that she didn’t like what was in them based on a YouTube video she had seen. I asked if she claimed the religious objection because of fetal stem cell lines from aborted fetuses, and she said, “no, I just don’t like what’s in them.” And I think that’s why some states are trying to eliminate the religious exemption, because it’s being abused.
If I don’t like what’s in a food product, I choose not to eat that food product. Maybe I could come up with a more eloquent way to say “I don’t like what’s in it,” but it seems silly or foolish to willingly consume something that has ingredients I deem to be harmful or suspicious. It is a shame we don’t have a pharmaceutical industry (or an actual food industry, but off topic…) that isn’t more transparent and forthcoming about the ingredients of their products.
I agree that the term “religious exemption” is sometimes misleading or inappropriate which is why I believe “conscience exemption” might be a more fitting category name. After all, one mustn’t be religious to object to fetal cell line use in vaccine derivation…
I think the YouTube video jab is unfair. At present my children are all vaccinated with what's legally required in my state, but I do have an interest in non-conventional and alternative medicines. That interest started as a response to how hard contraception is pushed as a matter of public health policy and by individual doctors, which is probably pretty familiar to most practicing Catholic women. It isn't hard to go from that and wonder what else they might be wrong about.
The public health response to Covid also jarred a lot of people out of complacency. I'd love to just be able to trust everything the CDC says, or that doctors say, but I can't unknow what I have learned, and that's going to affect my decision making. If they use more force, I get more suspicious.
It was literally the reason given to me by an acquaintance; her reason for not vaccinating her children was that she didn’t like what was in them based on a YouTube video she had seen. I asked if she claimed the religious objection because of fetal stem cell lines from aborted fetuses, and she said, “no, I just don’t like what’s in them.” And I think that’s why some states are trying to eliminate the religious exemption, because it’s being abused.
If I don’t like what’s in a food product, I choose not to eat that food product. Maybe I could come up with a more eloquent way to say “I don’t like what’s in it,” but it seems silly or foolish to willingly consume something that has ingredients I deem to be harmful or suspicious. It is a shame we don’t have a pharmaceutical industry (or an actual food industry, but off topic…) that isn’t more transparent and forthcoming about the ingredients of their products.
I agree that the term “religious exemption” is sometimes misleading or inappropriate which is why I believe “conscience exemption” might be a more fitting category name. After all, one mustn’t be religious to object to fetal cell line use in vaccine derivation…