Thursday, April 23, 2015

Campaign comparing vaccination to rape 'repulsive', health minister says

Sussan Ley joins condemnation of image posted by anti-vaccination group that describes vaccination as ‘forced penetration’

The federal health minister, Sussan Ley, has described as “repulsive” and “off the planet” suggestions by an anti-vaccination group that the government’s immunisation policy was akin to rape.

A Facebook page run by the Australian Vaccination Skeptics Network responded to the recent government announcement that religious exemptions for vaccinations would end, and that child welfare payments would cease to parents who did not vaccinate, by posting an image explicitly comparing vaccination to rape.

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