Our bodies have the innate ability to heal themselves. God designed us this way. Our immune systems are made to fight off infections and build up a defense so that if that invader is ever introduced again, we will be able to attack it before it harms us. But our bodies were not made in a laboratory or a controlled environment and are not designed to react to manufactured versions of disease. I'm just more apt to trust my body to do what God designed it to do, rather than trust an injected substance to save me from a disease.
Many vaccines contain mercury as a preservative.
They are now administering the killed injected Polio virus instead of the live oral vaccine as they had in past years because some children actually contracted Polio from the vaccine. Something that my husband and I tried to keep in mind is that we can re-think this whole thing when our daughter is two. But I know it is OUR first priority. The Issue of Our Times Peggy O'Mara, Ed. A very fair and balanced look at the Immunization Debate.