Do Americans still have the liberty to choose?

Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

How far removed have we come from this initial statement made at the very birth of what was to become the United States? An article published by ABC News, "Doctors May 'Fire' Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Children" has made me second guess how far we have backtracked.

The article outlines a case where a mother (in California) refused to have her second child vaccinated because of her belief that her first child got autism from his vaccination. Therefore when she asked her doctor for a check up of her second child the doctor refused to treat the child and basically told them to find another doctor, which has been almost impossible to do.

I won't weigh in on the autism factor, because I have not researched or read enough to know one way or another. What infuriates me about the situation is the fact that doctors refuse to treat a child, or anyone, for not getting "doctor" recommended shots. Do we not have unalienable Rights as parents and as citizens of the United States to live our LIFE with the LIBERTY to say "We don't want this for us. Should our children want it when they come of age, fine, but as of now we are in PURSUIT OF our HAPPINESS."

What will happen when the government decides once and for all they are taking over healthcare? Will they decide that anybody without the right shots will be turned away at clinics and hospitals across the country? Will we be strapped down to take their versions of flu vaccines and small pox and gardasil and the like? Are our CHOICES not ours to make anymore? Are we truly living the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

It doesn't matter statistically whether these vaccines are good for us or not, the matter at hand is our liberty. After all the very definition of Liberty is "freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice." And who has control when we're being told what to put into our bodies?

I'll close on this thought: I am not telling you what you should or shouldn't get in vaccines, but I encourage you to be informed (on your own and through independent resources) about each vaccine you or your children get, and let them be your CHOICE and not a government that only knows you as a number.