In 2008 Questionnaire, Obama, Hillary Revealed Concerns About Vaccines

The Daily Caller reports:

As U.S. senators and presidential candidates in 2008, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton responded to a questionnaire from the vaccination skeptic group Advocates for Children’s Health Affected by Mercury Poisoning (A-CHAMP), and espoused views about childhood vaccinations that would likely not be politically acceptable today.

Some of Clinton’s answers to the questionnaire resurfaced Monday, though her full response, and that of Obama, had not been published.

But discovered deep within the internet, the then-candidates’ answers cast a fuller light on their stance on the issue at the time, and indicates that they at least sought to pander to vaccination skeptics by supporting a ban on the vaccination preservative thimerosal and backing more research into the link between vaccinations and autism.

Obama himself directly indicated that parents should be allowed to decide not to vaccinate their kids.

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