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http://skepticalob.blogspot.com/2011/04/lets-sue-vaccine-rejectionists-for.html

Bioethicist Arthur Caplan  thinks it is time for vaccine rejectionists to put their money where their mouth is. They should be legally and financially responsible for the damage and death caused by their decisions.

    Anti-vaccine zealots say that whatever one's reason for opposing vaccination for themselves or their kids, America must respect their choice. They yell about freedom, individual rights and liberty. A lot of Americans apparently agree with this view...

    ... But shouldn't they be held accountable for that choice when it hurts others?

Caplan invokes the recent instance of a New Mexico woman who traveled through four US airports while infected with measles, but a better example might be the measles outbreak in San Diego in early 2008. As I wrote in How vaccine rejectionists hurt the rest of us, an unvaccinated 7 year old boy returned from a foreign vacation incubating the measles....