Federal law requires an opt out provision for “medical products” available under emergency authorization. Both of the Covid-19 vaccines currently available in the U.S. were created through Operation Warp Speed, President Trump’s program to accelerate the development and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. The program relied on the Food and Drug Administration’s granting of emergency use authorization, which is permitted under the Public Health Services Act.
The act specifies that individuals who receive medical products authorized for emergency use be made aware of the following:
- The significant known and potential benefits and risks of such use, and of the extent to which such benefits and risks are unknown; and
- The option to accept or refuse administration of the product.
The right of refusal is essential, since the vaccine was developed and tested in less than a year and the full spectrum of potential side-effects remains unknown.
In spite of the clear language of the law, counties and hospitals across the United States are mandating the vaccine for first responders and health care workers.
Many people have reservations about the vaccine, in part because of the use of the HEK-293 fetal cell line, derived from research on aborted babies in the 1970’s. The HEK-293 cell line is the one of the most commonly used cell lines in medical research and pharmaceutical development.
The vaccines currently available in the U.S. are manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna. Both companies use the same technology to immunize against the coronavirus. Recipients are injected with “messenger” RNA (mRNA) that instruct the cells to produce a piece of the spike protein that is found on the surface of the Covid-19 virus. The recipient then produces antibodies against the virus. Both companies used HEK-293 cells to test the spike protein pieces, but the cells are not part of the vaccine itself.
It should be noted that the cell line was not used to manufacture the vaccine, and it is not accurate to say that the current vaccines are equivalent to being injected with the cells of aborted babies. However, some people object to the use of aborted fetal cell lines in any phase of the production of the vaccine, including testing.
If you are waiting for another type of Covid vaccine, you should know that three candidates are currently in Phase 3 clinical trials in the United States:AstraZeneca, Janssen (a brand of Johnson & Johnson), and Novavax. AstraZeneca and Janssen use the HEK-293 fetal cell line to produce their vaccines. Novavax may use fetal cell lines in the testing of its vaccine.
We are receiving numerous calls from health care workers who are being pressured and even forced to take the vaccine against their will. This is unlawful. If your employer has said you must take the jab, please contact us.
The above came in a Feb. 24 email from Life Legal Defense Foundation.
Sure, you CAN legally refuse to save a life. But when is it morally acceptable to refuse to save a life when you can do so safely without endangering your life or the life of someone else?
Come off it. There’s no direct connection between getting jabbed and saving a life. The vaccines aren’t proven safe. They were rushed through inadequate trials. I’m not getting jabbed. There’s no direct connection between wearing masks and saving lives either. It’s all been for nothing, over a flu. Democrats are despicable for doing this to the country.
Of course there is, Anonymous at 3:17 PM Getting vaccinated greatly reduces the amount of virus your body produces, so making it far less likely to transmit the virus to a person who for whatever reason didn’t get vaccinated or for whom it didn’t work. That is how herd immunity works. That’s why measles and smallpox are not the devastating diseases they once were.
It’s not a flu, and there is LOTS of evidence that masks save lives, especially when they are of the proper type and fitted properly.
Please educate yourself, or at least please stop spreading untruths.
Is that why you are a Democrat… because they care about saving lives in the womb?
Are you talking to me? I’m a Democrat because Jesus is a Democrat.
Jesus has no need to belong to a political party. He is God the Son, but some people do make political parties their religion.
“Thus sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them. Sins give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine goodness. “Structures of sin” are the expression and effect of personal sins. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn. In an analogous sense, they constitute a “social sin.” (CCC 1869)
”Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them:
– by participating directly and voluntarily in them;
– by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them;
– by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so;
– by protecting evil-doers” (CCC 1868)
This administration is adamant about imposing its will and trampling over our Constitutional rights
“legally refuse to save a life”???
LOL. Ridiculous.
You are laughing at a half a million Americans dead inside of a year? Two million dead worldwide. You think that’s LOL material?
The overall death rate was down last year. So much for a pandemic. Oh, my!
Nice try, YFC.
An important reason people want to refuse these experimental gene therapies is precisely because they want to save a life (their own life). (Do you just pretend to not know that?)
Also, you write as though these experimental gene therapies are the only hope we have to fight COVID-19. They aren’t. Ivermectin and hydroxychlorquin have been found to be tremendously effective, indisputably safe, and without either the ethical issues connected to the gene therapies or the serious physical risks of the gene therapies (just consult the CDC’s own VAERS for the latest data on all the deaths and horrible side effects people are having).
Juan, these vaccines are NOT gene therapy. They don’t contain DNA, they don’t integrate into the cells in any kind of permanent way or alter genes.
Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquin are NOT tremendously effective. There ARE some very good treatments now, including monoclonal antibodies and steroid treatments, so death rates are down, but not eliminated.That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get vaccinated. People still die at outrageously high numbers from COVID.
The vaccines are safe, as CDC has said . Their VAERS data do not show horrible side effects, unless you consider an day’s mild fever and a sore arm to be “horrible”. There has not been a single death due to the coronavirus vacciens. Not a single one.
Again, these are not gene therapies. There are safe vaccines that prevent you – AND OTHERS – from contracting a horrible disease that in some people cause death.
Here is a direct quote from the CDC.gov website about them:
“COVID-19 vaccines are safe
Millions of people in the United States have received COVID-19 vaccines, and these vaccines have undergone the most intensive safety monitoring in U.S. history. This monitoring includes using both established and new safety monitoring systems to make sure that COVID-19 vaccines are safe. These vaccines cannot give you COVID-19. Learn more facts about COVID-19 vaccines.
CDC has developed a new tool, v-safe, to help us quickly find any safety issues with COVID-19 vaccines. V-safe is a smartphone-based, after-vaccination health checker for people who receive COVID-19 vaccines. Learn how the federal government is working to ensure the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.”
Yes, people have died soon after being jabbed. And the mRNA “vaccine” is an experimental treatment with who-knows-what long term side effects. Anyone who gets jabbed is taking a risk far greater than if they just got infected with Covid.
Please provide evidence that people have died from these COVID vaccines. People’s lives may depend on your answer.
YFC, go here:
https://vaccinedeaths.com/
And learn about the dangerous “vaccines”.
Juan, with all due respect, not one thing you say in this post is true. In fact, putting this stuff out on a site like this could encourage someone to try your non-scientific cures. Drinking bleach doesn’t cure covid.
They can vaccinate my dead body!
I really hope we won’t have to. But I think the 2 million who died before you might wish you would change your mind.
I am not taking any of the current vaccines for several reasons. Along with some of the bishops, I consider them unethical. I have a lot of allergies to certain medicines and am allergic to at least one ingredient in one of the vaccines, if not all. I just had my second pneumonia shot, and it is the pneumonia as a result of COVID that kills. Also, I have never had a flu vaccine in my entire life — never ever — and I just do not get the flu. The few times I got it in the distant past, it was mild and cured with zinc, rest and the usual cold remedies. I do believe masks lower our risks since they help keep us from touching our faces.
They are other vitamins that help against colds, the flu and COVID. Vitamin C and Multivitamins in table form, but mostly getting them from fresh or cooked fruit and vegetables (oranges, lemons, cabbages, bell peppers, spinach, broccoli, carrots, squashes, onions, etc. ) and a moderate amount of sunshine. Raw fruit and vegetables are the best as they retain all the vitamins and none are destroyed by heat. Fresh salads with nuts and seeds with a light dressing are an excellent source.
AnneTE, I was going to respond to your post from the 26th, but I let it alone. But then you responded to yourself today and I have ro respond:
First of all, there are a couple of good reasons why one either shouldn’t take this or any vaccine or medicine and a few reasons to wait a while. And you raised one of them. People known to have allergies to one or more components to a vaccine, or any medicine for that matter, ought to weigh the risks with their doctor. You’ve said you do, so I take your word. Another is pregnant women. The studies specifically excluded pregnant women. So we haven’t done the thorough tests to make sure it is safe. However, women do get pregnant, thanks be to God!, and several did during the trials and there were no problems found. But there weren’t enough to draw a firm conclusion so caution is warranted.
But I just have to remind you, as I have in the past, that the pneumonia seen in most COVID patients is not pneumoccal bacterial pneumonia that you were vaccinated against. It is good to have that vaccine, and it would be devastating to have pneumoccal pneumonia with COVID pneumonia, but the vaccine does not in any way prevent COVID induced pneumonia.
Then you go on in your newer post to provide even more medical advice, which you have no credentials or experience to deliver. Sure, take vitamins, C, vegetables (even though oranges are a fruit not a vegetable), etc etc. Great advice in general for health. I agree 100%. But they do nothing to protect you from COVID. Nothing. There is no evidence for this, absolutely none. Trust me, I wish it were so. These things you recommend are great for things like heart disease and cancer…for infectious disease…nope.
Unless one has an allergy to the ingredients, the vaccine is safe. And actually even then, reactions happen within a few minutes and that is why people are observed after the injection, and the reactions are treated there and then on the spot without further complications.
God be with you. I wish you a lifetime of health and happiness.
I never said oranges were vegetables. I was listing fruits and vegetables together, mostly those with a lot of vitamin C. I also eat kale and orange and yellow vegetables that my oncologist recommended to combat cancer. My point is a lot of people are more susceptible to COVID because they eat unhealthy processed food loaded with sugar and salt which all contributes to diabetes and other serious diseases. Too much meat is bad for the heart, but a limited amount is fine for most people. Many people can afford decent food but eat junk.
Regarding my last post, pregnant women should not be getting it either. They have no idea what it will do to an unborn child. Almost all of us have seen the video of one pregnant nurse passing out a little while after getting the shot.
I am sorry to say a young pregnant medical worker who is a close friend of a gal in my prayer group has already lost her job because she refused to be vaccinated.
I hope people fight back. Glad the article gave a number to call.
The goal is to make everyone comfortable with putting whatever they want in our bodies, whenever they want to put it in. There are no long term studies. And we cannot pretend they have not sterilized women and worse in the past under the guise of health while giving them a “vaccine”. It was women in poor countries not Americans, which is worse in my eyes, and God’s. We have for too long, used foreign aid to force other nations to do what we want, and what goes against their consciences.
Vaccines must not be made mandatory. We are headed down a slippery slope already.
Nobody should get it. You don’t know what will happen in your body months or years down the road as a result.
Can anybody who supports the jabs for everyone please explain why you have to sign your rights away before getting jabbed? You are not allowed to sue Pfizer, Moderna nor the government if you suffer severe side effects from the vaccine. Such a safe vaccine, huh?
Some people are born with the stupid gene, while others work a lifetime trying to find it. We see its effects in some of the conspiracy theories expressed about this article. The US has one of the worst records in fighting the covid-10 virus because people turned simple, well-known, and well-documented preventative actions into political statements. We are entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts. The vaccines approved in the US are safe. The US has had 500,000+ deaths as a result of the virus. People are testing positive at very high levels, though lower than three months ago. In nursing homes where the vaccine has been administered, deaths are down 80%. It is not true that masks don’t work. That is not a new idea. It has been proven effective for hundreds of years. If someone claims to be pro-life, they should wear a mask outside the home. If someone doesn’t want to give the virus to someone else, they should wear a mask outside the home. Science is on the side of increased mitigation. Don’t be sucked in by ultra-right-wing radio talk shows that try to make healthcare a political issue. Listen to the real science. Be a patriot, protect your fellow citizens from this scourge. Pray for a quick end to the pandemic
Left jab …….. Right Hook
K.O.