Should childhood vaccines be required by law?

January 28th, 2010 admin

A couple of years ago there was a poll in Parenting Magazine that asked readers, “Should childhood vaccines be required by law?” About 2000 readers responded and 63% said yes while just 37% said no. There’s another poll, much like this one but posted about a year later, at Edutopia and in this poll the no


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