When Vaccines are a Pro-Life Issue
I
can still remember the day I found out that there were
vaccines that used aborted babies as part of the process. I
really couldn't believe it! I thought there had to be some
mistake. I was sure that the person who told me about it
had gotten their facts confused. But no, they were right.
And, the first vaccine to use aborted babies occurred back
before abortion was legal in the United States. The baby
wasn't aborted here, but the FDA allowed this vaccine to be
licensed despite the illegal status of abortion.
To
date, there are 5 vaccines that use aborted babies as part
of the manufacturing process: Rubella, as found in the
M-M-R®II, the M-R-Vax®II, the Meruvax®II, and the
Biavax®II; Poliovax® inactivated vaccine for Polio;
Varivax® Varicella Virus Vaccine Live, for Chicken Pox;
Imovax® Rabies ID, Wistar Rabies Virus Strain PM-1503-3M
Vaccine (and the rabies immune globulin); and the newly
recommended Havrix® Inactivated for Hepatitis A. Some of
this information is fairly easy to find and some of the
information needs some history and medical information to
detect.
Rubella
The
Rubella Vaccine was the first vaccine to use aborted babies
as a part of the process. Today this strain of Rubella
Vaccine is present in 4 different combinations used in the
United States. These include:
•
BiaVax®II - Rubella and Mumps Live
Vaccine
•
M-M-R®II - Measles, Mumps and Rubella Live
Vaccine
•
M-R-Vax®II - Measles and Rubella Live
Vaccine
•
Meruvax®II - Rubella Live Vaccine
The
information in the PDR sounds simple enough: "...sterile
lyophilized preparation of the Wistar Institute RA 27/3
strain of live attenuated rubella virus, grown in human
diploid cell (WI-38) culture..."
Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), 50th Edition, Medical
Economics,1996, p. 1613
You
have to do some digging to find the history of this vaccine
before the terms
"RA 27/3" and
"human diploid cell (WI-38)" tie
in with aborted babies. Fortunately, the digging is not
difficult and the original documentation was
very forthcoming
about the source and manner in which this vaccine was
created.
Here
are some excerpts from medical journals which provided
specifics about the cell cultures for the Rubella
vaccine:
Gamma
Globulin Prophylaxis; Inactivated Rubella Virus; Production
and Biological Control of Live Attenuated Rubella Virus
Vaccines ; Amer J Dis Child Vol 118 Aug
1969
Dr.
K McCarthy: It
seems to me that there are two things that we worry about
in regards to WI-38 cell substrate. First of all, presence
of extraneous viral agents; secondly, the possibility of
there being human genetic material passed over into the
vaccine. I wonder if there is any information about the
reasons for aborting that particular embryo that gave rise
to WI-38; and if it was from a family, whether we have any
information about siblings from the family and whether they
are normal?
Dr.S
Plotkin, Philadelphia: I
should like to answer Dr. McCarthy's question. This fetus
was chosen by Dr. Sven Gard, specifically for this purpose.
Both parents are known, and unfortunately for the story,
they are married to each other, still alive and well, and
living in Stockholm, presumably. The abortion was done
because they felt they had too many children. There were no
familial diseases in the history of either parent, and no
history of cancer specifically in the families; I believe
this answers Dr. McCarthy's question.
Attenuation
Of RA 27/3 Rubella Virus in WI-38 Human Diploid Cells; Amer
J Dis Child vol 118 Aug 1969
Explant
cultures were made of the dissected organs of a particular
fetus aborted because of rubella, the 27th in our series of
fetuses aborted during the 1964 epidemic. The third
explant, which happened to be from kidney, was selected
arbitrarily for further study.
Studies
of Immunization With Living Rubella Virus ; Arch J Dis
Child vol 110 Oct 1965
This
fetus was from a 25 year old mother exposed to rubella 8
days after last menstrual period. 16 days later she
developed rubella. The fetus was surgically aborted 17 days
after maternal illness and dissected immediately. Explants
from several organs were cultured and successful cell
growth was achieved from lung, skin, and kidney. It was
then grown on WI-38. This new vaccine was tested on orphans
in Philadelphia.
Twenty-seven
babies aborted because of rubella exposure before they
could isolate the rubella virus in any tissue. And, a baby
was aborted, not because of rubella in the mom, but because
this couple felt they had too many children. Some would say
that at least some good came out of it, but I would ask,
"Wasn't this too high a price to pay? Couldn't tissue have
been taken from a living person
instead?"
Many
have asked why manufacturers wanted fetal tissue. This
article attempts to answer that
question.
Production and Testing of Rubella Virus Vaccine prepared on
WI-38 cell cultures; Amer J Dis Child vol 118 Aug
1969
Methods
Virus
Production --Hoskins and Plotkin have shown that human
diploid cell strains are readily susceptible to chronic
infection without cytopathic effects by rubella virus. The
infected cells resemble control cells morphologically, but
the ability to multiply may be
inhibited.
In
other words, the cells gained from aborted children take
the infection readily without causing damage to the virus.
Another concern also addressed in the use of aborted babies
is the ability to prevent other disease strains from
contaminating the sample and the ability to avoid the
cross-species jumping of diseases that occurs when animal
tissues are used.
A
final note before leaving Rubella: This vaccine was tested
on orphans in Philadelphia. Therefore there were no living
parents to object to the testing and raise concern over
children being used as test subjects. This is one of many
times in medical history when those who had no voice or who
were not given the right to refuse were used to further the
gains of the drug companies. More about this issue
later.
Imovax® Rabies ID
The
human rabies vaccine was produced by the same company that
produced the Rubella vaccine, Wistar. The description in
the PDR says "The virus is harvested from infected human
diploid cells, MRC-5 strain..." You will notice the same
description of "human diploid cells" from the Rubella
vaccine.
Wistar
Institute had discovered that human aborted children made
good cell medium, so they decided to repeat the procedure
for human rabies. There is no proof that the Rabies virus
was introduced into the mother prior to the abortion, so we
assume that her life was not in danger.
The
Immune Globulin, the same serum we give to humans bitten by
a suspected or confirmed rabid animal, was prepared by
taking blood plasma from individuals who had been immunized
with the Imovax® vaccine. Therefore, the immune globulin
has been tainted with the same use of aborted
children.
Poliovax®
Poliovax
is an inactivated or killed version of the Polio vaccine.
It contains three different types of polio virus: Type 1
(Mahoney), Type 2 (M.E.F.1), and Type 3 (Saukett) which
have been grown in human diploid cell cultures MRC-5. Note,
these are the same cell cultures obtained for the rabies
vaccine.
Under
the heading
Clinical Pharmacology,
this explanation follows as to why human aborted babies
were used:
This
inactivated poliovirus is produced using cells from a human
diploid cell line, MRC-5 cells, grown on microcarriers in
suspension culture such that infection results in a
production of high titer poliovirus. The virus is
concentrated and purified prior to inactivation, then
quantitative potency measurements are made prior to
formulation of the trivalent vaccine. In these respects
this vaccine differs from the inactivated poliovirus of
monkey kidney cell origin. Because this vaccine is more
consistently immunogenic than that which was previously
available, it is intended to replace the monkey kidney cell
derived Poliovirus Vaccine Inactivated (formerly
Poliomyelitis Vaccine).
Monkey
kidney cells had been proven to carry SV-40, a form of AIDS
present in monkeys. This same SV-40 is showing up in human
cancer tumors found in children who's
parents were
vaccinated with the tainted vaccine. Concern that the SV-40
was also causing immune-deficiency problems in humans led
to it's removal from the list of acceptable
vaccines.
According
to the manufacturers of Poliovax®, using human cells makes
a more potent vaccine and therefore creates a higher
immunologic response without the danger of cross-species
transfer of diseases. Add that to the information provided
with the Rubella vaccine that it was easier to infect the
tissue without causing damage to the virus, and you have
some compelling reasons why drug companies might consider
aborted children to be good medium for
vaccines.
Varivax®
The
chicken pox vaccine is an interesting study in the use of
aborted human babies. The following is the description of
the vaccine found in the PDR:
Varivax®
[Varicella Virus Vaccine Live (Oka/Merck)] is a preparation
of the Oka/Merck strain of live, attenuated varicella
virus. The virus was initially obtained from a child with
natural varicella, then introduced into human embryonic
lung cell cultures, adapted to and propagated in embryonic
guinea pig cell cultures and finally propagated in human
diploid cell cultures (WI-38). Further passage of the virus
for varicella vaccine was performed at Merck Research
Laboratories (MRL) in human diploid cell cultures (MRC-5)
that were free of adventitious agents.
Please
note how many children, live and aborted were used to make
this vaccine! One live child with natural chicken pox, one
aborted child's embryonic lung cells, and a second human
aborted child from the same cell cultures used for the
Rubella, WI-38, and then a third pass into the same aborted
cell cultures used for the rabies and polio vaccines. If
you count the embryonic guinea pig, that's 3 aborted human
babies and at least one aborted guinea pig and one live
child! What in the world is Merck
thinking??!!
All
this for a vaccine that was marketed as a way to save
thousands of parents from having to take a week or so off
work to stay home with their sick child. All this for a
disease that is generally mild in children and far more
debilitating in adults who often evidence symptoms as
shingles. and, since the vaccine doesn't provide life-long
immunity, one must either get boosters every 5 - 10 years
or contract chicken pox or shingles later in life. What a
wonderful trade-off!
Havrix®
Havrix
is the Hepatitis A vaccine. The PDR description for this
vaccine includes the following:
Harvix
(Hepatitis A Vaccine, Inactivated) is a noninfectious
Hepatitis A vaccine developed and manufactured by
Smith-Kline Beecham Biologicals. The virus (strain HM175)
is propagated on MRC-5 human diploid
cells.
Note
the use of MRC-5 cell cultures again as found in the
chicken pox, rabies and polio vaccines.
The Bottom Line
Drug
companies that make vaccines have discovered the tissue
from aborted babies make good cell medium in which to grow
viruses they want to use to make vaccines. They assume that
the use of human aborted tissue causes fewer problems in
the long run and higher immune titers. And, they believe
that parents either don't know or don't care that they are
doing it. I would agree that most parents don't know. I
would not agree that most don't care!
There
are a growing number of parents who are investigating
vaccines and finding out about the use of aborted tissue.
Many of these parents are opting to take religious and
philosophical exemptions to prevent the administration of
these vaccines to their children. This may not be the only
reason they choose not to vaccinate, but for many, it is a
contributing factor.
Religious
and philosophical exemptions allow parents the right to
selectively vaccinate their children. This may mean that
they choose only to avoid vaccines using aborted children.
The exemption laws don't require parents to explain their
reasoning.
If You Thought The Other Was Bad...
I
wish I could say that the only pro-life immunization issue
was the use of aborted children. However, it isn't!
Vaccination programs in some third world countries have
been used to create a "population control vaccine" by using
a Tetanus vaccine that has been
"enhanced."
The
following news article appeared several years ago and
explains this vaccine strategy:
Unknowing Women Victims of Hidden Birthcontrol
Vaccine
During
the early 1990's the WHO (World Health Organization) has
been overseeing massive vaccination campaigns against
Tetanus in a number of countrie, including Mexico,
Nicaragua, and the Philippines . In 1994 suspicion of these
campaign protocols began. The vaccine protocols called for
three injections in three months and five total within a
year's time . These tetanus vaccines were given only to
woman age 12-49; children and men were excluded. More alarm
bells went off when many of the pregnant women who were
given the tetanus vaccine began to experience bleeding and
early miscarriages .
When
several vials of this tetanus vaccine were analyzed by
chemists, many of the vials contained Human Chorionic
Gonadotrophin (hCG) which the body uses to maintain
pregnancy. So what does this all mean? Well when hCG is
injected into the body with a tetanus toxoid carrier (a
tetanus toxoid is used because the human body does not
attack it's own naturally occurring hormone hCG), the body
will then begin to produce antibodies to hCG. So when a
woman becomes pregnant and a sufficient amount of anti-hCG
antibodies is built up in her system, she then becomes
unable to maintain a pregnancy and she will
miscarry
Here
are a few journal articles on anti-fertility vaccines
utilizing tetanus toxoids as a carrier (many written by WHO
researchers):
(Contraception
Feb. 1976, pp. 253-268) "Clinical profile and Toxicology
Studies on Four Women Immunized with
Pr-B-hCG-TT."
(The
Lancet June 1988, pp.1295-1298) "Phase 1 Clinical Trials of
a World Health Organization Birth Control
Vaccine."
(Fertility
and Sterility Oct. 1980, pp. 328-335) "Observations on the
antigenicity and clinical effects of a candidate
antipregnancy vaccine: B-subunit of human chorionic
gonadotropin linked to tetanus toxoid."
(Scandinavian
Journal of Immunology Vol. 36, 1992, pgs. 123-126)
"Anti-hCG Vaccines are in Clinical
Trials."
Here
are a few newspaper articles:
The
Philippine Star, April 4, 1995 "3 DOH vaccines untested by
BFAD,"
Ottawa
Citizen, April 4, 1995 Ottawa got blood tainted by HIV."A
communiqué from Tanzania tells about tetanus toxoid
vaccinations, five in all, given only to women aged 15-45.
Nigeria, too, may have been a victim to this hCG vaccine (
see also The Lancet June 4, 1988, p. 1273)
The
following is a copy of one of the articles that appeared
once the information became public:
Philippine
Medical Association study indicates that women were
injected with contaminated tetanus
vaccine
FRONT
ROYAL, VA Have women in the Philippines, and possibly
elsewhere, surreptitiously been used as guinea pigs in an
international anti-fertility campaign?
A
new medical study in the Philippines suggests that may well
be the case. A recent study conducted by the Philippine
Medical Association on behalf of the Philippine Department
of Health revealed that almost 20 percent of the tetanus
vaccine sampled positive for the hormone human chorionic
gonadotrophin (hCG), according to Human Life International.
Vaccines containing the hormone immunize women not only
against tetanus but also against pregnancy by inducing the
body's immune system to attack the hormone needed to bring
an unborn child to term."
This
study lends credence to what Human Life International (HLI)
and some other groups have suspected all along," said
Father Matthew Habiger, president of the international
pro-life/family organization. "We first began to hear
reports last year about tetanus vaccination campaigns in
the developing world that targeted only women of
child-bearing or pre-child bearing years, and that they
required multiple injections. The vaccination program is
sponsored by the World Health Organization, an agency with
a 20-year history of researching anti-fertility vaccines,"
Fr. Habiger said. "We brought our suspicions to the world's
attention. This new study greatly heightens our concerns."
The
WHO and certain feminist organizations that claim to care
about the health of women publicly attacked HLI after it
called for an investigation of the widespread allegations
about contaminated vaccine. "In light of the new Philippine
study, it appears that these groups have squandered their
credibility," Fr. Habiger said.
The
Philippine Medical Association reported that nine of the 47
vaccine samples tested were found to contain hCG, and
released a letter signed by the three Philippine physicians
who actually tested the vaccines. The PMA president
attested to the veracity of the letter and the testing
process. All the vaccines sampled were taken from various
health centers in Luzon and Mindanao. Almost all of them
were labeled by one of two Canadian firms, Connaught or
Intervax. All the samples were tested with an
immunoassay-based method developed by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration.
The
Philippine Medical Association report closes the first
stage of a two-part investigation of contaminated vaccines
in the Philippines. The protocol for the second stage of
the test testing the women vaccinated for antibodies to hCG
has been submitted the Philippine Department of Health and
is awaiting funding. In a letter to the Philippine
Department of Health, HLI urged immediate approval of the
second stage to uncover the full dimensions of this
scandal.
The
tetanus vaccine tested in the Philippines was imported as
part of a program against neonatal tetanus sponsored by the
WHO. Similar vaccination protocols have also been observed
in WHO programs administered in Mexico and Nicaragua. Tests
of the vaccine in Mexico yielded similar results but none
of those tests was performed as part of an actual
investigation into the contamination.
"We
view the adulteration of tetanus vaccine with hCG to be a
matter of grave concern," said Fr. Habiger. "It is
absolutely essential that any country which has this
program in place begin testing vaccines for
contamination."
Noting
that it is unlikely contaminated vaccine would still be in
circulation after public concerns were raised last year,
Fr. Habiger suggested that researchers attempt to focus on
acquiring and testing unused vaccines distributed prior the
public outcry over vaccine contamination. He said it is
even more important that women who previously received the
vaccine be tested for the telltale presence of hCG
antibodies in their bloodstream and that the numbers of
miscarriages experienced by vaccinated women be
tabulated.
"We
are not making any accusations at this stage," Fr. Habiger
said. "But we strongly suspect something is seriously
amiss. And public confidence in these kinds of vaccination
campaigns has been critically eroded in several developing
nations. Only an objective, scientifically valid study of
this matter will lay public concerns to rest." Human Life
International 4 Family Life, Front Royal, VA 22630
U.S.A.
Once
drug companies decide it is okay to use aborted babies to
make vaccines, it's not a large jump to try to produce a
population control vaccine. Once they decide it's okay to
test vaccines on unsuspecting Philadelphia orphans or
refuse to treat syphilitic African American men so they
could watch the progression of the disease, it's not a
great jump to decide to test a population control vaccine
on childbearing aged women in third world countries where
they are unlikely to protest or sue.
In Conclusion
At
first glance, immunization might not appear to be a
pro-life issue, but when you dig a little deeper, it's
there.
Contact
Information:
Kathy
Barr, CCD, CCCE, CCM, BE, PE, CVE, Traditional Naturopath
817-819-8457
