The claim made by some citizen journalists is that certain COVID-19 vaccines “contain cells from an aborted fetus.” One video headline stated: “CONFIRMED — aborted fetus in COVID-19 vaccine.”
Fact checkers have “debunked” these claims and labeled them false, in one instance because the name of the fetal cell line was incorrect and in others because the vaccines do not literally “contain” these cells; rather, the fetal cell lines were used as a growth medium for the virus during the production phase.
Labeling the claim that “COVID-19 vaccines contain fetal cells” as “false” can actually be just as misleading, as this ignores the moral issue of aborted fetuses being used in medicine, and in fact makes it sound as though it’s not happening. Again, you’d have to read the whole fact checking article to see that fetal cell lines are indeed used in the development of some of these vaccines, and the “false” label is based on some technical detail or specificity of the verbiage.
Fact checkers’ claim that fetal cells are not used in vaccine development because they are clones of the original is perhaps the most ludicrous. There’s no difference between cells growing and multiplying indefinitely in a petri dish and cells growing and multiplying in your body during your lifetime. If the cells in your body are still you, then the cells in the petri dish are still that of the original fetus that was aborted.
Aside from ethical concerns, some may also object to vaccines manufactured through the use of fetal cell lines on the basis that there may be health risks involved, due to potential DNA contamination. Human fetal cell lines in vaccine production have been linked to both autism and autoimmune diseases.
Vaccine makers using a fetal cell line in the development of their COVID-19 vaccines include AstraZeneca, Jansen Research and Development/Johnson & Johnson, CanSino Biologics, University of Pittsburgh, ImmunityBio and Altimmune.
Full story at Mercola.com.
Of course there is a difference between cells in a Petri dish and cells in your body. Are you going to talk to a Petri dish and ask it what it wants for dinner?
No, no because it is a dead child in that cell.
Or should I say “parts” of a dead child.
Keep yourself in denial, but it not going to help you when they come for your body parts.
When a person dies of a gunshot wound, and their liver is transplanted into a living person and saves their life, do you run around and say there are parts of a murdered person in there and you shame them for having the transplant?
There aren’t children’s parts in these vaccines, Anne TE. None.
Vaccines such as AstraZeneca-Oxford use aborted fetal lines in design, development, production and testing, and therefore are not a morally valid option.
As far as I can tell from my own research and moral interest, the Pfizer vaccine is not a true vaccine as we come to understand it like Chicken Pox vaccines where ennervated CP is introduced to the body in order to raise its natural defenses. The Pfizer vaccine in fact is a mRNA dose. It is essentially gene therapy where by your body’s DNA is changed. While some gene therapies appear to be successful, I am personally not aware of any successful ones introduced in large scale. Pls don’t respond with info on gene therapy. I have no intention of taking any of the “vaccines”. At least for a long long time.
Wrong. Incorrect information.
mRNA vaccines are not gene therapy do not alter your body’s DNA.
And again, the Vatican has repeatedly stated that vaccines derived from cells from fetuses aborted in the 1960s and 1970s are morally acceptable if there are no other options, and when the risk to public health is grave – which is certainly the case here.
It is likely that most of us in the US will never have to use the AstraZeneca vaccine anyhow. But it may be the only way to vaccinate rural and poor parts of the world.
YFC I’m not interested in arguing with you on gene therapy and mRNA. I’ve found several sites that state otherwise.
“mRNA vaccines are not gene therapy do not alter your body’s DNA.” There are no long term studies that show long term effects.
I disagree with you on whether the use of altternate vaccine is morally ethical. I’m capable of deciding for myself just as you are.
Wrong. We need to trash Astra Zeneca and pour more money into safer ethical vaccines for poor people
How much stock do you have in that company, or how much are they paying you for all your “fine” sales pitchers for that pharma?
No, the Vatican has said that use of the vaccines is permissible under certain serious conditions…not that the vaccines are morally acceptable…and yes there is a difference. The vaccines that are produced, tested on, researched etc…using aborted fetal cell lines retain their morally problematic status and Catholics are to voice their objections, insist on alternatives even if they, for serious reasons, must avail themselves of morally tainted vaccines. It is a duty for Catholics to object to the use of aborted fetal cell lines and tissues in all medical research.
Anonymous, first of all if the person is totally dead and not just brain dead, the body parts cannot be used. They’re dead. Only the parts of someone who is still alive or just brain dead can be used. Many people do not know that. Secondly, if they are just brain dead, their parts should not be used unless they had given previous permission. I really find the whole thing rather macabre. I stopped signing such permission on my driver’s license. Anyway I am told old for my body parts to even be useful for transplants, and I am too old to take anyone else’s parts.
Maybe Dr. Jill Biden can set everyone straight.
Anonymous… I am not sure it’s P.C. to use the word “straight”. these days. Please be careful!!! LOL
No experimental vaccine for me. You can be the guinea pigs. Did you see the video of the nurse who passed out minutes after being vaccinated?
And if you want to know how they got that first fetal cell line, they probably immediately froze some of the body parts of the little boy and girl that they tore apart in those abortions. That seems to me to be the only way they could have kept the tissue alive for use.