I can see good points at both sides of the arguement here!

Personally I feel that the risk of a child dying, or being crippled by a disease is greater than the risk of side effects from the vaccine used to prevent the disease. On the other hand I believe we also need a lot more research done into these side effects, proper research, not like the now discredited studies done on links between MMR and Autism!
At the end of the day it should be up to the parents to decide, but it should be up to the government to provide the FACTS.

I was lucky, my mother got me vaccinated against whooping cough, but a few friends were not and were off school for a couple on months each recovering from it. Not a disease I'd ever want I have to admit!