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In reply to the discussion: Yes, Virginia there ARE Two Sides to Vaccines [View all]Demeter
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WOMEN don't have large families because they don't want them. It's dangerous for their health and welfare, and modern science, funded by WOMEN philanthropists, provided birth control that is safer than childbirth--even today with all the high-tech interventions available in the operating theatre.
Women had large families because their only other option was joining the convent. Several of the girls among the 17 children my great-grandmother bore chose to join convents. They did NOT want to endure what their mother did.
correction: there was a third option: death. in childbirth. or in a dirty abortion.
Vaccination had NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING to do with the size of a family, and still doesn't.
But fear of losing the only child one has does have something to do with the anti-vaccination people's motivation.
Given the level of lying that goes on in public discourse from public officials who should know better, many people have no reason to believe anything they are told.