Vaccination

“Weighing ethical concerns about the use of fetal-derived tissue to develop medicines against the public health risk of refusing vaccines.” - The Dispatch

“It’s too early to know exactly how vaccinations are going to play out in the church, but I don’t think you have to be an inveterate skeptic to imagine it’s more likely to bring division than unity.

“Some people ignore the overwhelming evidence and still believe the connection [to autism] exist because it was given credence in 1998 by the publication of a fraudulent research paper in the British medical journal The Lancet.

“[S]everal outbreaks over the past few years have begun in religious communities with poor vaccination rates. The current measles outbreak in New York, for example, has been linked to vaccine refusal among ultra-Orthodox Jewish families in Rockland County. Prior to that, an unvaccinated Ohio Amish community saw a massive measles outbreak in 2014.

“The anti-vaccination movement is a social movement … is dangerous and fueled by misinformation. And it’s also growing.” - RNS

“The diseases they fight are worse than you remember. The people who oppose them are a bigger risk than you realize.” CT

Measles outbreak tied to Texas megachurch sickens 21

Statement from the church: Free vaccination clinics will be on campus