Sunday, October 19, 2008

Ewwwww

There are somethings you just wish you had never learned. "The Human Diploid Cell" component in many vaccines is one of those things. Now I know it has been assumed by many that we are totally anti-vaccine in our fam, but really that isn't the case. However, when I learned that many of the vaccines our kids are getting contain aborted fetus cells listed as "human diploid cells" on the ingredient list I was saddened. God may have used briliant scientists to create vaccines, but would he really be okay with us using something that was created with an aborted fetus? There are many vaccines out there with an "ethical" alternative to the vaccines with the aborted fetus lines in them - I encourage you to ask for them and not support those vaccines which originated from an abortion.

Here is a chart with all the vaccines with "human diploid cell" lines and a list of the alternatives available. All made from normal vaccine companies.

http://www.cogforlife.org/fetalvaccines.htm

2 comments:

Jim B. said...

Very interesting.

I had never heard of "human diploid cells". After a little reading, I discovered certain vaccines have indeed been developed from decades-old aborted fetuses. Apparently, certain of these fetal cells are very good at creating viruses, and thus very helpful in generating antiviral vaccinations.

These vaccines don't contain actual fetal tissue, but are based on an "immortal" cell line that was initially developed from a handful of aborted fetuses from the 1960s and 1970s (e.g. WI-38 and MRC-5).

I found two very informative articles explaining the situation and the consequent moral dilemma:

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Vaccines-and-Fetal-Tissue

http://www.all.org/article.php?id=10169

The second article is from a Catholic pro-life group and makes a very persuasive argument against using these vaccines. Here's a quote from the conclusion of the article:

"Even if chicken-pox or rubella were uniformly deadly diseases, the danger posed to the public health by refusing this vaccine is irrelevant. If a serial killer auctioned off his victims' property we must refuse to buy that property, regardless of the danger to the public economy. In the same way, we cannot be complicit in serial killing practiced by scientists. A murderer cannot be allowed to justify the act of murder by donating his victim's organs. He does not gain rights over the body of his quarry simply by virtue of having swung the killing blow. Neither does a society complicit in abortion have a right to apportion the victim's body in ways which benefit itself, while muttering, "Well, she's dead now, and we can't let the body go to waste." Drug companies use these cell lines because the cell lines make money. The cell lines will only be discarded when market pressures demonstrate they do not make money."

Yikes.

Thanks for the heads-up, Amy. Katy and I will have to look into this before it's time (Lord willing) to have number 3!

God Bless

Anonymous said...

Great post Ame, we already do make sure that Kaden's vaccines are all the alternative kind! I think it's gross too, Luke also did some research on it and found that they were in fact fetus' cells in those vaccines: my doctor had also never heard about that either...