Fox’s Megyn Kelly Tells Parents to Vaccinate Their Kids: Some Things Require ‘Big Brother’

For the first time since they sparred over her New York Times “puff piece,” Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly sat down together on Fox News Monday night to discuss, among other things, the current measles outbreak in this country due to parents who refuse to give their children vaccinations.

As a mother of three, Kelly wanted to make sure to go “on the record” and state that she “vaccinated all of them. on time as the doctor prescribed.” She said she sympathized with parents who have been “given bad information” about vaccines supposedly causing autism and other problems. “Now there is good information,” she said, calling the science “certain” on the issues and saying she does not oppose mandatory vaccinations for children

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O’Reilly seemed to agree with Kelly, noting that 90% of parents “do the right thing” by vaccinating their kids while only 10% don’t. But that 10% is enough to cause some major problems.

“This is going to be a big issue for politicians going forward, because it’s about Big Brother,” Kelly said. “But on the other hand, some things do require some involvement of Big Brother.”

Watch video below, via Fox News:

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