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Jenny McCarthy is singing a different tune these days. She's no longer anti-vaccine! Which is weird, so before that lets recap to what she said to CNN a few years ago:
“People are also dying from vaccinations. Evan, my son, died in front of me for two minutes. You ask any mother in the autism community if we’ll take the flu, the measles, over autism and day of the week. I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids.”
Now she's back pedalling in an op-ed piece for The Chicago-Sun Times. Jenny still thinks that doctors shot her son with autism, but she writes that she's never hissed at vaccines the way she's been hissing before. Apparently, she's not totally-anti-vaccine.
I am not “anti-vaccine.” This is not a change in my stance nor is it a new position that I have recently adopted. For years, I have repeatedly stated that I am, in fact, “pro-vaccine” and for years I have been wrongly branded as “anti-vaccine.”

My beautiful son, Evan, inspired this mother to question the “one size fits all” philosophy of the recommended vaccine schedule. I embarked on this quest not only for myself and my family, but for countless parents who shared my desire for knowledge that could lead to options and alternate schedules, but never to eliminate the vaccines.
And she's also a scientist now because here's some more goodies:
This is what I believe:

I believe in the importance of a vaccine program and I believe parents have the right to choose one poke per visit. I’ve never told anyone to not vaccinate. Should a child with the flu receive six vaccines in one doctor visit? Should a child with a compromised immune system be treated the same way as a robust, healthy child? Shouldn’t a child with a family history of vaccine reactions have a different plan? Or at least the right to ask questions?

I will continue to say what I have always said: “One size does not fit all.” God help us all if gray is no longer an option.
If you're wrong, just say it.