CLEARWATER, Fla. — A U.S. pro-life group that monitors pharmaceutical research says the Switzerland-based company Novartis’ new vaccine, Flucelvax, is ethically produced and does not rely on aborted fetal cell lines like some others in development.
“We are extremely pleased to see Novartis advance in the market over those such as Sanofi Pasteur, who are developing influenza vaccines using aborted fetal cell lines,” Debi Vinnedge, executive director of the Florida-based group Children of God for Life, said Nov. 21.
She said Novartis should be commended for “listening to public concerns.” Vinnedge encouraged the public to write the company and thank them for a vaccine that “will not force anyone to violate their religious and pro-life beliefs.”
Novartis has chosen to use a mammal cell line rather than the current, slower process using chicken embryos. Children of God for Life said the company’s 2001 purchase of a license to use an aborted fetal cell line, also purchased by several other pharmaceutical companies, had caused concern it would be used in vaccines.
Cell lines from two babies aborted in 1964 and 1970 have been used to create vaccinations for diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella, hepatitis, polio, rabies, chicken pox and smallpox.
The production of vaccines from these aborted fetal cells drew condemnation from the Pontifical Academy of Life in 2005. Though the Vatican's pontifical academy said the use of such vaccines is morally permissible because those vaccinated do not directly cooperate in producing the vaccine, it stressed the “grave responsibility” to try to use alternative vaccines and to object to vaccines with “moral problems.”
Aborted fetal cells have also been used in the development of consumer products like anti-aging creams and artificial sweeteners.
The San Diego-based company Senomyx, many of whose patents involved an aborted fetal cell line derived from embryonic kidneys, drew scrutiny when business agreements with soft-drink maker PepsiCo and Campbell Soup came to light. Campbell Soup cut ties with Senomyx, while PepsiCo in April 2012 announced that it does not conduct or fund research that uses tissue or cell lines derived from embryos or fetuses.
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That’s wonderful but these vaccine companies should also remove the mercury preservative themerosal and cancer viruses. The great deception!
Vaccines violate many religions on more levels than just using aborted children which of course is most likely the worst. Jeremiah 17:5. Cursed be any man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from The Lord. 7. Blessed is the man that trusteth in The Lord and whose hope is in the
Lord. There are many more verses along these lines. We are to steer clear of blood and many vaccines use human and animal blood products. We are not to do anything harmful to our bodies as they are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum, MSG, polysorbate, tween, and so on are not healthy nor approved for us to consume. Trusting any man that says they are good for us is wrong. Please dig much deeper into this issue and you will see that vaccines violate the Word of God in many ways and NO ONE should ever be forced to receive them nor should anyone consent to them without all info being given and understood. Vaccines are unavoidably unsafe and it is immoral to sacrifice even one life. There is no greater good served when every life is not valued. Why do you think our gov made it impossible to sue vaccine makers? So many people were harmed and sued. Please research vaccines thoroughly and check them with every Word of God. The love of money is the root of all evil. Vaccines are BIG money for the manufacturers and the politicians that mandate them. Thank you.
Ps. We were told they are using dog kidneys for this new vaccine. You call that ethical? You really think God blesses that?
There is no mercury in single dose vials. Pedatricians vaccinate their own children. How dare you call vaccines immoral when they are the BEST way to prevent the spread of infectious transmissible diseases, after hand washing? Smug, ill informed persons as yourselves sitting in wealthy countries where sanitation and cleanliness are the norm. How dare you condemn children to lives of polio? Of broken ribs and brain damage from whooping couch? Really—a dog’s kidneys? That bothers you? How about all the euthanized dogs that become landfill for absolutely no purpose? You and I are worth far more than sparrows, let alone a dog. Along those lines, you might as well say let’s not every kill anything ever. Oh, but that won’t square with the Bible either, in places too numerous to count. How many vaccine companies still manufacture in America? Two. There used to be over a dozen. Why? Not too profitable in comparison to drugs for people who can’t exercise, eat well, or stop drinking themselves to death. That’s why—it’s not that vaccines don’t make money, they don’t make a lot of it. You are not do do anything harmful to your bodies? How did those pierced ears work out for you? No pierced ears? How about that commute you take to work? Mmmmm carbon monoxide a licious! Hypocrites. “Every life is not valued” because you perceive that a life is being sacrificed. All medicine, heck, all decisions in life have their risks and rewards, their benefits and their dangers. Every once in a while someone has a fatal reaction to NyQuil or tylenol, or some other medicine you probably took yourself at least once. Yet, here you are, typing away. Only Catholicism teaches that it is absolutely licit to balance those things, and there is almost nothing forbidden, except taking the direct taking of innocent human life. No one is ever forcing you to get a vaccine, although for the health of the community you might be excluded from some things. No, you’ll let your kids and yourselves ride the tide- of herd immunity. You don’t seem to be sick from vaccine preventable diseases only because everyone around you took a risk, although small, and effectively decreased the incidence of disease so much that you are protected. We enjoy many many things built on the backs of those who have been exploited, endangered or killed. The point is that you cooperated remotely, and blamelessly, but want to condemn those who vaccinate because it’s your pet conspiracy. And MSG is approved for consumption. Get your facts straight, among other things. God bless and have a nice day.
John,
Thank you for your post. Where would you recommend gathering the truth about vaccines? I attempted to research a bit but found contradictory information.
In Christ,
Brad
Try this website for info http://www.cogforlife.org there, is quite a bit of good information if you scroll down under vaccines.
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