Broadcast Script for Final

ANCHOR INTRO:

A GROWING NUMBER OF PARENTS ARE CHOOSING NOT TO VACCINATE THEIR CHILDREN BUT FOR ONE EUREKA MOM, THAT WASN'T AN EASY CHOICE.

LEETA-ROSE HAS THIS FAMILY'S STORY.....

VO, REPORTER/ BROLL OF KIDS PLAYING:

JACKIE MOODY SAYS THAT HER SON WAS NOTICEABLY DIFFERENT AT BIRTH.

SOT, JACKIE MOODY:

LOOKING INTO HIS EYES YOU COULD TELL THERE WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT HIM.

LOOKING BACK, I REALIZED THAT EVERY TIME HE'D BE DUE FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF VACCINATIONS, HE WOULD LOSE SKILLS THAT HE HAD LEARNED AND HE WOULD HAVE MELTDOWNS MORE OFTEN.

VO, REPORTER/BROLL OF MOODY AND KIDS:

BUT WHEN MOODY'S NEXT THREE CHILDREN HAD SIMILAR ISSUES FOLLOWING IMMUNIZATIONS, SHE BEGAN TO RETHINK VACCINATIONS.

WHEN HER FIFTH CHILD WAS BORN SHE DECIDED TO WAIT AWHILE.

WHEN THE BABY WAS THREE MONTHS THEY HAD HER VACCINATED.

SOT, MOODY:

AFTER BEING VACCINATED, CHARLEIGH WAS COLICKY AND FUSSY AND WOULDN'T NURSE RIGHT OR SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT.

IT QUITE LITERALLY TOOK MONTHS FOR HER TO RETURN TO THE BABY SHE HAD BEEN.

VO, REPORTER/BROLL OF DR'S OFFICE:

AFTER TALKING TO HER PEDIATRICIAN, MOODY DECIDED TO STOP ANY FURTHER SHOTS FOR HER CHILDREN.

SOT, MOODY:

I BELIEVE THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST GENETICALLY MORE PRONE TO HAVING ADVERSE EFFECTS BECAUSE OF VACCINES.

OUR CHOICE ISN'T FOR EVERYONE BUT FOR OUR FAMILY SPECIFICALLY IT'S OUR BEST AND ONLY OPTION AT THIS TIME.

OUTRO:

CURRENTLY ALL STATES BUT TWO ALLOW EXEMPTIONS FOR PERSONAL OR RELIGIOUS REASONS.

FOR THIS FAMILY IT WAS A TOUGH CHOICE, BUT ONE THAT THEY MADE WITH THEIR DOCTOR'S HELP.

THIS IS LEETA-ROSE REPORTING FOR NBC NEWS.