Last updated on: 8/24/2016 10:34:11 AM PST
Should Any Vaccines Be Required for Children?
Pro (Yes)
Now Pro
"I've come to find out that without mandatory vaccines, that the vaccines that would in fact be issued would not be effective... it's dependent that you have mandatory vaccines so that every child is immune. Otherwise, not all children will be immune even though they receive a vaccine. So, in my opinion, this is a local issue. If it ends up to be a federal issue, I would come down on the side of science and I would probably require that vaccine. [The position change is] an evolution actually just in the last few months, just in the last month or so. I was always under the belief that requiring vaccines, 'Why require a vaccine? If I don't want my child to have a vaccine and you want yours to, let yours have the vaccine and they'll be immune.' ell, it turns out that that' not the case, and it may sound terribly uninformed on my part, but I didn' realize that."
Source: Taylor Dobbs, "n Reversal, Gov. Gary Johnson Now Supports Mandatory Vaccination," digital.vpr.net, Aug. 24, 2016
[Editor's Note: Johnson previously expressed a CON opinion on this question. Read Johnson's former position on mandatory vaccines for children.]
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Not Clearly Pro or Con
"The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and #vaccineswork. Let's protect all our kids."
Source: Hillary Clinton, Twitter post, twitter.com, Feb. 2, 2015
[Editor's Note: In 1993, Hillary Clinton, then First Lady, helped to launch the Childhood Immunization Initiative and the Vaccines for Children program, both aimed at providing low-cost or free vaccines to children. Hillary Clinton worked at The Clinton Foundation from 2013-2015, specifically focusing on the Too Small to Fail initiative, which promotes childhood vaccination among other advocacy efforts. While Clinton is clearly pro-vaccine, we were unable to determine from her statements whether she believes vaccination should be mandatory for children.]
Not Clearly Pro or Con
"According to the most recent review of vaccination policies across the globe, mandatory vaccination that doesn't allow for medical exemptions is practically unheard of. In most countries, people trust their regulatory agencies and have very high rates of vaccination through voluntary programs. In the US, however, regulatory agencies are routinely packed with corporate lobbyists and CEOs. So the foxes are guarding the chicken coop as usual in the US. So who wouldn't be skeptical? I think dropping vaccinations rates that can and must be fixed in order to get at the vaccination issue: the widespread distrust of the medical-industrial complex.
Vaccines in general have made a huge contribution to public health. Reducing or eliminating devastating diseases like smallpox and polio… Still, vaccines should be treated like any medical procedure–each one needs to be tested and regulated by parties that do not have a financial interest in them. In an age when industry lobbyists and CEOs are routinely appointed to key regulatory positions through the notorious revolving door, it's no wonder many Americans don’t trust the FDA to be an unbiased source of sound advice."
Source: Jill Stein, "I Am Jill Stein, Green Party Candidate for President, AMA!," reddit.com, May 11, 2016
Not Clearly Pro or Con
"Autism has become an epidemic. Twenty-five years ago, 35 years ago, you look at the statistics, not even close. It has gotten totally out of control.
I am totally in favor of vaccines. But I want smaller doses over a longer period of time... I had my children taken care of over a long period of time, over a two or three year period of time...
Just the other day, two years old, two and a half years old, a child, a beautiful child went to have the vaccine, and came back, and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic...
I'm in favor of vaccines, do them over a longer period of time, same amount."
Source: Washington Post, "Wednesday's GOP Debate Transcript, Annotated," washingtonpost.com, Sep. 16, 2015
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FORMER CANDIDATES
(Candidates who have withdrawn or who no longer meet our criteria appear below in black and white and in alphabetical order.)
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Withdrew on Mar. 15, 2016; no additional research done as of that date to determine candidate's position on this question.
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Failed to win the Democratic nomination on July 26, 2016; no additional research done as of that date to determine candidate’s position on this question.
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