Persuasive Speech Outline Vaccines

Persuasive Speech Outline

Speaker: Asma Ghaleb

Speech Topic: Vaccinactions
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that vaccinations are important and actually do more
good than harm.
Thesis: Vaccines are one of the most important medical advances in history. They have severely
reduced the effects of many viral infections and everyone who can, should consider getting
vaccinated.
Introduction:
Attention Getter: Hello everyone. So today I am here to stress to you all the importance of
vaccinations. Babies and children have been getting vaccinated for many years and has been
something that hasn’t been debated in the past because it was always clear that the benefits
outweighed the risks. There is a lot of controversy today surrounding vaccines and whether
parents should be required to have the children vaccinated. What changed? What sparked the
controversy? Im sure many of you have heard the infamous statement made by former physician,
Andrew Wakefiled, which was that vaccines cause autism. That theory was extensively
investigated, and he had his license taken away.
Transition: In order to understand why vaccinations are so important, it is important to understand
how they work.
Body:
I. (Video) What is a vaccination? According to vaccines.gov they are defined as a substance used
to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases,
prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to
act as an antigen without inducing the disease. In simpler terms, an injecton that provides you
with immunity to a disease before you come into contact with it. Vaccinations contain a dead or
weakened strand of a virus that is injected into the body so that it can begin fighting the virus and
make antibodies. With the medical achievement of vaccinations, most viral infections have been
significantly reduced if not completely eradicated, However with so many parents choosing not to
vaccinate their children, disease that were once eridacted are starting to make a comeback. These
diseases are preventable. Everyone should get their vaccinations in order to protect both
themselves and the people around them.
A. According to Paul Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases and the director of the
Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, “Vaccines induce the
protective immunity that is a consequence of natural infection, without having to pay the price of
[becoming sick with] a natural infection (15 Things You Need To Know).”

B. After getting a vaccination, your body has the antibodies it needs to fight off the virus if it ever
comes in contact with it again.
1. So if someone around you is sick and you are exposed to the virus, your body will recognize it
and be able to fight it off immediately.
C. The History of Vaccines website states that through this process, you achieve immunity for the
future without ever having gotten sick (Top 20 Questions).
D. The positive effects of these vaccines can be seen just through the statistics.
1. Conn’s Current Therapy by Rick D. Kellerman says that “in 1950, there were 319,124 cases and
468 deaths from measles. This dramatically decreased to 43 cases and zero deaths in 2007
(Kellerman, Rick D.).”
2. It also gives the surprising fact that for every $1 spent on the MMR (measles, mumps, and
rubella) vaccination, $21 are saved in “direct medical costs of treating a case of measles.”
Transition: When explained like this, the decision whether to vaccinate or not becomes pretty
obvious. Unfortunately people are still hesitant about getting vaccinations.
II. These uncertainties are present for a few reasons.

A. In 1998, a British Physician named Dr. Andrew Wakefield did a study that linked vaccinations
to autism. His worked claimed that vaccinations actually cause autism.
1. Basically, this doctor injected 12 patients with the MMR shot and later, some of these
patients were diagnosed with autism.
2. CNN did a segment in the news about this in which they stated that this doctor had a
study full of error, and not only that, but he deliberately misrepresented, or altered the
medical histories of all 12 of these patients.
3. Britain stripped Dr. Wakefield of his medical license but by this time it was too late. The
story went viral and parents panicked. They refused to have their children vaccinated and
viral infections made a comeback (Retracted Autism Study).
4. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC states that there were more
measles cases in 2008 then there had been in any other year since 1997 (Notice to Readers).
5. In this picture provided by the National Public Radio, you can see that every year after
2008, the infections just got worse and worse. Diseases that had been almost extinct in the
US made a comeback (How Vaccine Fears Fueled).
6. It’s sad how all of the good things vaccinations brought with them were disregarded after
just one incident.
B. Another reason some people refuse to vaccinate is because they believe that vaccinations
contain mercury.
1. This is not completely false. Vaccines contain thimerosal which the CDC defines as “the
mercury-based preservative in multi-dose vials of some vaccines” to prevent them from getting
contaminated.
a) Data from several studies shows that thimerosal in low doses in vaccines does not harm the
person (Thimerosal and 2014-2015).
b) The FDA outlines the vaccinations that contain thimerosal and almost all of the vaccines do not.
There is just a handful that do (Thimerosal in Vaccines).
Transition: With all of that squared away, it is easier to see why vaccinations are so important.
Conclusion:
Vaccines are a safe prevention method to reduce the terrible effects of viral infections. They have
been able to decrease and in some cases completely get rid of some infectious diseases. Their
contribution makes them one of the most important medical advances in history. Since they affect
so many people, vaccinations are extremely monitored and regulated by organizations such as the
FDA. Every person should get immunized to protect themselves and those around them. Like
stated by the CDC, immunizing is “much like bailing out a boat with a slow leak. When we started
bailing, the boat was filled with water. But we have been bailing fast and hard, and now it is almost
dry. We could say, "Good. The boat is dry now, so we can throw away the bucket and relax." But
the leak hasn 't stopped. Before long we 'd notice a little water seeping in, and soon it might be
back up to the same level as when we started.” My advice to all of you is if you have any
reservations about vaccinations, do your research so that the decisions you make are well informed
and benefit you.

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II. These uncertainties are present for a few reasons.

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