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Crazy that anti-vax has even a fig leaf of personal liberty as a defense. Yes, you do have the right to make your own choices and you can be a negligent parent in 1000 different ways.

But this isn't even close to a personal freedom issue. You being a dumb piece of shit is a direct threat to the rest of society. YOU don't get to make the personal choice to kill MY child.

It should be simple for these serious diseases: unless you have a certified medical issue preventing it, you have to get the shot. Fuck any objection (personal, religious, whatever...). If there's some negative side effect or a bad vaccine batch, you get generously compensated for our collective societal fault in harming you.

Strap them down and jab them, let them bitch and moan about everyone's children being alive and healthy later.

She's figuring out why families 200 years ago had a dozen kids.

People like this should be treated the same as parents who drive their kids without car seats and seat belts.

What a shitty mother. I feel sorry for her other children.

That's a 20% mortality rate. If vaccines had anywhere near that level of mortality risk, all the streets of every city in the world would be absolutely fucking littered with bodies. You have to be one dumb motherfucker to think this is some kind of vindication for your antivax position.

Wild that you're just allowed to be a child murderer if you claim the magic voices in your head say it's okay. You'd think that the surviving kids would be saved from this kind of fucked up ideology, but in the U.S. we have concluded that it's more important for people to be delusional.

The denial after the fact is a necessary coping mechanism. Otherwise, they will suffer from the guilt of killing their child.

Which they absolutely did.

Mine got the shots. They are ALL fine. And alive I might add. Fucking ghoulish cunts, protect your kids dammit.

Poor child.

There was another story the other day of a father whose unvaccinated daughter died of measles, and he said he was still glad she didn't get the vaccine because he didn't trust what's in it to be safe. These people's minds are not functioning rationally.

The most generous way I can look at this is to say she's in denial. Five unvaccinated children with one dead. Apparently a 20% fatality rate (in her family) is not enough of a reason to get the vaccine.

In other words, irresponsible parents who should not raise kids in the first place.

Woman who doesn’t use conventional birth control is shocked to discover this one weird trick.

These fucking people are ghouls.

Edit: Christ, those times when I fail as a parent, all I need to do is read about this kinda bullshit. Holy hell. I cannot contemplate this attitude to the preventable death of one of my kids.

She probably claims to be "pro-life" too

... This isn't an onion article. That's horrifying.

Parents like these deserve a bolt right between the eyes.

Pretty sure vaccines make measles more than 80% survivable so she’s missing out

Murderer.

I work with a guy who is an extreme germ, a phobia. He always wears latex gloves even when he eats his food but yet he refused to get the Covid vaccine him and his wife are not even 30 yet and they have nine kids. I believe four of them have some sort immune deficiency problem, as well as one or two with a learning disability yet it’s all part of God‘s plan FYI he is also a big-time Mormon.

Wow how selfish can you be? What a horrible mom

From there, the interview took a turn. The mother said that after the death, her other four children developed the disease. It "must have been petrifying," CHD's director of programming, Polly Tommey, who was leading the interview, said. "Yeah, it was. It was hard," the mother replied. But then, the family had the children treated by an alternative practitioner, Ben Edwards, who has grown popular in their West Texas community amid the ongoing measles outbreak. Edwards administers unproven treatments, including cod liver oil and the steroid budesonide, which is used to treat asthma and Crohn's disease.

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Most children do recover from measles, regardless of whether they're given cod liver oil. The fatality rate of measles is nearly 1 to 3 in 1,000 children, who die with respiratory (e.g., pneumonia) or neurological complications from the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"i don't even like my kids"

Welcome to the new America. It breaks my heart.

Mother of child that died of measles in the USA in 2025 is anti-vax. Insert Pikachu

I will skip this particular circle jerk where we all say vaccines are amazing together in a big ring. :)

I dont feel any anger of someone decides to not vaccinate. Its their decision.

I remember how sad I was to see my infant cousin die from sids. My poor aunt never recovered from the anti depression drugs. Meanwhile this pos is going w/e. Treating human like a turd.I feel sorry for the other kids. They watched their sibling die and know for sure mom will do the same for them.