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FINAL EDITOR’S NOTE, 1\/10\/22: <\/em><\/strong>Live Action News continues to monitor all vaccine development that potentially violates the right to life of preborn children, including COVID-19 vaccines that are still in production. However, Live Action News will provide no further editorial updates or corrections to this article due to its age.<\/strong> We encourage readers to follow the <\/em>Lozier Institute’s<\/a> more recent updates on COVID-19 vaccine development.<\/em><\/p>\n

12\/24\/20:<\/strong> The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than <\/span>one and a half million lives<\/span><\/a> worldwide, including many from vulnerable populations like the <\/span>elderly<\/span><\/a> and people with <\/span>comorbidities<\/span><\/a>. Many people are rightly concerned about the health and safety of their families and loved ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is <\/span>news<\/span><\/a> that safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available, yet troubling reports have emerged that <\/span>many of these vaccines<\/span><\/a> were developed and\/or tested using cell lines derived from aborted children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Live Action strongly condemns the use of abortion-derived cell lines in any stage of vaccine development <\/b>(research, design, testing, or manufacturing) because these cell lines were created by violating the fundamental human rights of a preborn victim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Political leaders and lawmakers around the world must take immediate steps to disincentivize the scientific community and pharmaceutical companies from using these cell lines in any stage of research and development and, when possible, impose legal sanctions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Leading <\/span>pro-life ethicists<\/span><\/a> say consumers <\/span>may take a vaccine in good conscience<\/span><\/a> despite the ongoing evil actions of pharmaceutical companies. As they explain, people taking a vaccine created with abortion-derived cell lines are not committing a moral evil because they are not directly participating in the act of abortion that led to the creation of these cell lines. In many cases, the cell lines being used were originally derived from abortions committed in the early 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n

The moral wrong was already committed by the abortionist and the mother who killed the child, while the pharmaceutical companies engage in an ongoing evil by using abortion-derived cell lines for medical research, <\/span>testing, and manufacturing<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As citizens and consumers who believe in protecting human life, we must be educated and informed about which vaccines are ethically compromised. It is our responsibility to actively resist efforts by lawmakers, pharmaceutical companies, and medical researchers, to continue using abortion-derived cell lines to develop vaccines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Concerned citizens may wish to call or write to representatives and elected leaders, urging them to ban the use of abortion-derived cell lines in medical research. Citizens may also wish to organize community or church letter-writing campaigns to these pharmaceutical companies demanding that they stop using abortion-derived cell lines for medical research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How are these ethically compromised cell lines used<\/b>?<\/b><\/p>\n

The practice of using abortion-derived cell lines in vaccine development goes back decades, and the most commonly used include\u00a0MRC-5, HEK-293, and PER C6<\/a>. These cell lines are derived from children who were aborted between the 1960s and 1970s. [Editor’s Note, 1\/10\/22: We previously listed other abortion-derived cell lines which do not appear on Lozier Institute’s most recent vaccine update, one of which may been have derived from an abortion as late as 2015.<\/em>]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Research using these lines has led to vaccines for rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis A, and shingles. For instance, a common rubella vaccine was developed using the <\/span>WI-38 cell line<\/span><\/a>, which was derived from the cells of a baby girl aborted in the 1960s because the family felt they had too many children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rubella is a serious disease, especially dangerous for pregnant women and their preborn babies. A major US outbreak in 1964 caused thousands of miscarriages, 11,600 cases of babies born deaf, and 3,580 cases of blindness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As noted in a 2005 statement from the Vatican\u2019s Pontifical Academy for Life, the development of a vaccine for a disease like rubella represents a scientific \u201cmilestone\u201d in the fight to eradicate highly contagious diseases. The Vatican statement also says that a consumer who takes a vaccine developed with these cell lines is<\/span> not formally cooperating in abortion. <\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, the use of these abortion-derived cell lines to develop vaccines poses alarming \u201cethical problems\u201d for society, which must be addressed by lawmakers and decision-makers in the medical and scientific communities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, the same Vatican statement makes it clear that \u201cthose who prepare the vaccines\u201d and \u201cthose who participate in the mass marketing\u201d of the vaccines have a high degree of moral culpability because they (unlike consumers) are in a position to be able to reduce or end the ongoing practice of using abortion-derived cell lines.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Using cell lines derived from the murders of innocent preborn children should not be normalized, and <\/span>legal, financial, or market incentives for the harvesting of aborted children must be put to an end.<\/b> These actors \u2014 lawmakers, pharmaceutical companies, and scientific researchers \u2014 should be strongly encouraged to develop alternative cell lines for vaccine research.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Which vaccines were created with the use of abortion-derived cell lines<\/b>?<\/b><\/p>\n