Should parents be obliged to immunize their children against common childhood diseased Or do individuals have the right to choose not to immunize their children What is your view of this practice

Essay topics:

Should parents be obliged to immunize their children against common childhood diseased? Or do individuals have the right to choose not to immunize their children?

What is your view of this practice?

We have made tremendous achievements in the field of medicine, one of which is the invention of vaccines. But this discovery has been marred by controversy from the beginning. While some believe it should be mandatory to vaccinate all the kids against common deadly illnesses, others say that parents should be given a right to choose. I will discuss both sides of the arguments in this essay, although I personally am in favor of mandatory immunization.

Those who advocate for the parent’s right to choose has two main arguments. Firstly, parents should be allowed to make their own decisions. They say it’s a life changing matter and it would be better if it’s made through an informed consent after careful explanation. Many western countries follow this rule, which has unfortunately lead to a slight decline in vaccine uptake. Secondly, some people have religious reasons to refuse a vaccine. Certain vaccines use animal or human derivatives which has lead to concerns among conservative communities. For instance, Amish community has the lowest vaccination rates in the entire world which could be blamed on the lenient laws surrounding immunization.

As for the obligatory vaccination, I believe its many benefits clearly outweigh whatever infringement it causes on human freedom. First of all, mandatory immunization will greatly reduce the burden of preventable illnesses on the healthcare professionals, who in return will be able to focus more on the chronic diseases. This has been shown to work in countries like Japan, where they have successfully eliminated infectious diseases from their cities. Moreover, due to strong vaccination campaign we have been able to wipe some disease entirely, like Small Pox and Polio. Secondly, it benefits the children more than anybody else. Vaccines successfully prevent the severe forms of the diseases and allow children to have a healthy life. If it wasn’t for vaccines, we would never have been able to achieve such a high quality of life.

In conclusion, if parents are given the right to choose, they may decline vaccines for personal or religious reasons. Therefore I believe it’s important to have an obligatory vaccination program to reduce burden on hospitals and improve child health.

Votes
Average: 8.4 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'leaded', 'led'.
Suggestion: leaded; led
...llow this rule, which has unfortunately lead to a slight decline in vaccine uptake. ...
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Line 7, column 119, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, as for, for instance, in conclusion, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1909.0 1615.20841683 118% => OK
No of words: 359.0 315.596192385 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31754874652 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35284910392 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90045853968 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58495821727 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 606.6 506.74238477 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.4904463989 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.45 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.95 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.45 7.06120827912 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219919249077 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0600667013784 0.084324248473 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0534564796218 0.0667982634062 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121365204494 0.151304729494 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0408725345251 0.056905535591 72% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.0946893788 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.28 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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