this is my contention card. I am basically fighting against having compulsory vaccines. If you were the affirmative, how would you attack my case?
CON 1) Vaccines are harmful and do not work
Michael Willrich, Associate Professor of History at Brandeis University, “‘The Least Vaccinated of Any Civilized Country’: Personal Liberty and Public Health in the Progressive Era,” Jounal of Policy History, 20.1, 2008, p. 78
Americans had many objections to compulsory vaccination. The procedure carried well-known health risks—including pain, sickness, disabled arms, and, in a cluster of well-publicized cases, death. A vocal minority in the medical profession disputed the efficacy of vaccination, favoring sanitation as the sounder policy. To its critics, such as the radical New York lawyer Harry Weinberger, compulsory vaccination was an unconstitutional act of "medical oppression."5 On the basis of questionable scientific claims, made by self-interested physicians and vaccine manufacturers, the state invaded fundamental rights of parental authority, bodily autonomy, and individual conscience. Another critic commented, "The law under which [the vaccinators] operate should carry a clause providing that all sections of the Constitution guaranteeing the security of person or property are hereby repealed."6
CON 1) Vaccines are harmful and do not work
Michael Willrich, Associate Professor of History at Brandeis University, “‘The Least Vaccinated of Any Civilized Country’: Personal Liberty and Public Health in the Progressive Era,” Jounal of Policy History, 20.1, 2008, p. 78
Americans had many objections to compulsory vaccination. The procedure carried well-known health risks—including pain, sickness, disabled arms, and, in a cluster of well-publicized cases, death. A vocal minority in the medical profession disputed the efficacy of vaccination, favoring sanitation as the sounder policy. To its critics, such as the radical New York lawyer Harry Weinberger, compulsory vaccination was an unconstitutional act of "medical oppression."5 On the basis of questionable scientific claims, made by self-interested physicians and vaccine manufacturers, the state invaded fundamental rights of parental authority, bodily autonomy, and individual conscience. Another critic commented, "The law under which [the vaccinators] operate should carry a clause providing that all sections of the Constitution guaranteeing the security of person or property are hereby repealed."6