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Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

I do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?

We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this has consequences, and the consequences of not vaccinating your children are not only just that those children are exposed to illnesses; it's that everyone else they go to school with and they hang around with are, too.

In some areas, immunity has been eroded so much that the child who's not vaccinated is now actually more vulnerable to the complications of infectious diseases.

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.