Seeking non-vaccine mom
Are you among the small but growing number of parents who have decided to not have their children vaccinated against diseases? We'd like to hear from you. The first hour of Tuesday's radio show is devoted to this subject.
WYPR-FM, 88.1
Tuesday, April 1
Noon-1:00
Generations have been vaccinated for measles, mumps, and polio. Now a small but growing number of parents are questioning the safety of vaccines and refusing to have their children inoculated. Medical professionals see this as a risk to public health. We’ll discuss the fear of vaccines with Saad Omer, of the Johns-Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dr. Neal Halsey, a pediatrician at Bloomberg, and Dr. Tim Doran, Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at GBMC.
Generations have been vaccinated for measles, mumps, and polio. Now a small but growing number of parents are questioning the safety of vaccines and refusing to have their children inoculated. Medical professionals see this as a risk to public health. We’ll discuss the fear of vaccines with Saad Omer, of the Johns-Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dr. Neal Halsey, a pediatrician at Bloomberg, and Dr. Tim Doran, Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at GBMC.
Contact the show's producer, Marcus Charleston, at 410-235-1191, or send us an e-mail at midday@wypr.org

Comments
If any of these parents do call into your show, you should also get their addresses so you can get the police to go and arrest them for child abuse. Anyone who seriously believes that vaccines do more harm than good is definitely not playing with a full deck
Posted by: Steve | March 29, 2008 10:42 AM
Who would be willing to publicly announce that they are not only threatening the health of their own children by failing to vaccinate, but also are placing the entire community in danger? A parent who fails to vaccinate is the moral equivalent of a parent who allows their children to play in the middle of the road, not only threatening the health of their own child, but also others. It's clearly child abuse.
Posted by: Bryan | March 29, 2008 11:02 AM
Most parents who choose not to vaccinate do so with the best information they can gather. Most of the parents I know who have chosen not to vaccinate (yes, myself included), do not do so lightly. I have read more articles on vaccination than most doctors. I spent months researching vaccines, reading everything I could possibly find on them. I've looked at the CDCs parent pages, I've read their MMMR (monthly morbidity and mortality report), and I've read most of the Pink Book, a CDC publication on vaccines, reactions, and the diseases they supposedly prevent. Have you done so?
If you have, and you have chosen to vaccinate your children after having done so, congratulations. With all of the information I have gathered I have come to a different conclusion. Vaccinating or not vaccinating is a paren'ts right to choose. Medical decisions should always be made after much thought and consideration. Not all vaccines are OK for every child, and pretending that they are helps no one.
Posted by: emily | March 30, 2008 10:30 AM