"There's mercury, embalming fluid, and parts of aborted fetal tissue in vaccinations. I'm not happy about what's been injected into my body over the years."
Let's take a look at those, in reverse order. The aborted fetus claim has already been thoroughly debunked here in previous comments -- nice work (especially szena). As for embalming fluid, I assume you mean formaldehyde, as a preservative. Do you know that it's also used in carpets, and that you are regularly and continually exposed to much, much greater doses of formaldehyde outgassing from carpets than you are from that momentary and minute exposure in a vaccine? Yet you don't see people passing out from walking across the living room shag.
Remember this: The dose makes the poison. Even water is poisonous if you consume too much of it. You can have a glass of wine with dinner and have no problems, but chug a fifth of Jack Daniels and you'll be lucky to wake up alive the next day (though, granted, you won't feel like it). Our bodies can easily process tiny increments of virtually any substance with no harm. How small is tiny (or how large a dose can we handle)? That depends on the substance -- some, such as cyanide or arsenic, can kill with very little; others, such as alcohol, need a lot more; and water, more still.
As for mercury: Mercury was once used, as part of a chemical called thimerosal, as a preservative in vaccines. However, there are four things to consider:
* Sodium chloride is composed of sodium (a highly reactive metal that EXPLODES on contact with water) and chlorine (a viciously poisonous gas) -- yet we salt our food with it all the time. The fact that mercury is part of thimerosal doesn't make thimerosal poisonous any more than sodium and chlorine make table salt poisonous. An element's properties can change drastically when it becomes part of a compound.
* Just to be on the safest side while testing was ongoing, thimerosal was removed from all early-childhood vaccines, as well as from virtually all other vaccines, the only regular exception being flu vaccines (and thimerosal-free versions of these others, including flu vaccines, are also readily available). So virtually no one in the U.S. has been subjected to thimerosal in a vaccine for YEARS -- almost a decade, I think.
* And since then, ongoing testing in multiple studies has shown absolutely NO DANGER from thimerosal. All studies have failed to show any connection between thimerosal and autism, which is the only thing it was suspected of causing.
* AGAIN, the dose makes the poison. Even in those older vaccines (such as the ones I got when I was a child) that contained thimerosal -- and, thus, mercury -- contained such an incredibly tiny amount of mercury that the body could easily handle its eventual removal. Heavy metals often take much longer to get rid of than other foreign substances. But when it's such an incredibly tiny amount (literally just a few hundred molecules of the stuff), it doesn't take the body all that long to process it out.
So kindly quit spouting off all these scaremongering "facts" that are meaningless and misleading. Perhaps tied with the agricultural revolution, vaccines are probably the greatest lifesaving invention in humanity's history.
~David D.G.