Resolved: The United States Federal Government should enforce mandatory vaccinations.

I will be refutting these by areas that I'm believeing that these are. ===Rebuttals===Now as we begin here I have to prove that through Animal Testing we would be providing the Greatest Utility in this case and henceforth win the debate on these grounds, because if the ultamate utility isn't achieved then we will have more pain than pleasure and thus harming humanity which will ultamately lead to our downfall and depletion of human progress. First let's look at the benefits that these animal tests have provided humans. If we can look at the past 100 years we can see that almost all of the medical break throughs have actually came directly from Animal tests. [1] There have been tests of which the dog's pancrease was removed and insulin was discovered this way. Now we save tons of diabetic patient lives each year. We have also used animals to test for polio and this has effectively helped bring down those numbers from 350,000 in 1988 to a mere 233 in 2012. [2] There's also progress and come close to vaccines and treatments on a long chain of other illnesses it has helped with that I don't have time to go into detail with them all, but to list a few: Hep B, Hep C, polio, Brain Injuries, Breast Cancer, TB, Leukemia, Cardic Valve Subsitutes, and several others. [2][3]Let's move on to animals and how they actually benefit from this. Now I would like to clarify to the voters here. I'm not the anti-PETA guy who thinks that we should put lipstick on a bunny to see if it makes it bullet proof, but more of a reasonable expierements over these vacines and such. First we have to look at some of the cures that actually came from testing on animals and the animal diseases that had vacines for them. There has been a countless list, but just to name a few: Rabbies, CPV, Feline Hep, Distemper, Antrax, and Feline Leukemia. [2] We can see that in this case countless millions upon millions of animals lives would have been lost if it wasn't for animal testing. As for the number of research subjects it is just over 26 million total. We consume more than 1800 more animals than test subjects. [4] We cannot deem this unethical without attacking eating meat amongst other things. Thus, animal testing is not only completely moral, but it increases and maximizes the utility of all animals used in testing to create the vaccines, meaning that my opponent's DA can be flown in my favor. My opponent's quotation from the youtube video doesn't appear to actually be from the video as it is more about having a healthy eating lifestyle and obesity than anything else. Please throw it out of the debate as a response. Not saving livesMy opponent states that the disease is caused by sin. He has yet to actually show scientific proof of this and even if we accepted that it is Biblical, he has yet to show actual verses. Even if a cure for cancer has been found and not yet released, it has nothing to do with this debate as there are plenty of known vaccines out there that benefit the public. These are what the debate is about, not the ones withheld from the public. EconomicsMy opponent has dropped this argument, please extend this across. Ethic of CareThis argument has been dropped by my opponent, please extend it across. With that I thank you and urge you to vote Pro! SourcesSource 2 from last round. (. http://www.cdc.gov...)1. AnimalResearch. info, "Diseases & Research," animalresearch. info (accessed Oct. 15, 2013)2. Elizabeth Fisher, "Why We Should Accept Animal Testing," huffingtonpost. co. uk, July 17, 20133. California Biomedical Research Association, "CBRA Fact Sheet: Why Are Animals Necessary in Biomedical Research? ," ca-biomed. org (accessed Oct. 15, 2013)4. Tom Holder, "Animal Research Is an Ethical and Vital Tool to Fight Disease," blogs. law. harvard. edu, Jan. 14, 2013