Debate: Making Vaccination Mandatory for All Children

New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Accessed 29 March 2014
Debate: Making Vaccination Mandatory for All Children
23 March 2014
An outbreak of measles in Manhattan showed that even doctors had overlooked the disease as childhood vaccination became widespread. But over the last decade more people have objected to immunization. Along with the religious exemptions that almost all states allow, 19 states allow exemptions for philosophical reasons. But are broader outbreaks like those in Britain evidence that parents should no longer be allowed to get any exemption from having their children immunized?