If you are already on the fence about vaccines, there are probably some you want to avoid…
For many parents, that likely means skipping all of the vaccines with aborted baby parts and fetal tissue.
Which Vaccines Contain Aborted Baby Parts?
Do vaccines really contain aborted baby parts and fetal tissue?
“Have you read the CDC’s vaccine ingredient list? Why would they list aborted baby parts as ingredients if they weren’t actually in vaccines? Just because there’s only a little baking soda in a cake doesn’t mean it’s not in there. In fact, a little baking soda can have quite the effect on a cake and the person eating it. If it’s on the label, it’s in the vaccine.”
Megan Heimer on What You Didn’t Know About the Aborted Baby Parts in Your Vaccines
Are you surprised that the CDC’s vaccine ingredient list doesn’t list aborted baby parts as ingredients of any vaccines?
It does list:
- WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblast cells
- MRC-5 human diploid cells
But cells are not tissues or body parts…
Cells make up tissues and tissues make up body parts, but that doesn’t sound as scary, does it?
“Given that many vaccines use aborted fetal cell tissue (where a viable fetus was medically and voluntarily aborted, not miscarried), there is clearly a valid, religious argument for not submitting to these shots.”
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Immortalized cell lines, like the WI-38 and MRC-5 cell lines, even lose their tissue characteristics.
This type of anti-vaccine propaganda is likely why so many anti-vaccine folks still think that aborted baby parts and fetal tissue are ingredients in vaccines.
They aren’t. Not in any vaccine.
Some vaccines are made with fetal embryo fibroblast or retinal cells (WI-38, MRC-5, HEK-293, and PER.C6 cells) from cell lines that are derived (they can replicate infinitely) from a few electively terminated pregnancies (abortions) in the 1960s to 80s. That certainly does not mean that any vaccines contain aborted fetal tissue or baby parts though.
Those original cells aren’t even involved in making these vaccines any more.
The cells used today have been copied, over and over again. They are descendant cells, which is why a common way to explain all of this, is to say that vaccines are said to have a “distant association with abortion.”
And even then, the cells are removed before the final vaccine is produced.
That’s why the National Catholic Bioethics Center states that that:
“One is morally free to use the vaccine regardless of its historical association with abortion. The reason is that the risk to public health, if one chooses not to vaccinate, outweighs the legitimate concern about the origins of the vaccine. This is especially important for parents, who have a moral obligation to protect the life and health of their children and those around them.”
And why it is said that Catholics are “morally free to use the vaccine regardless of its historical association with abortion” and that “it should be obvious that vaccine use in these cases does not contribute directly to the practice of abortion since the reasons for having an abortion are not related to vaccine preparation.”
What To Know About Vaccines, Abortion & Fetal Tissue
Vaccines are safe and necessary and do not contain aborted fetal tissue or body parts, although some do have a distant association with abortion.
More on Vaccines, Abortion & Fetal Tissue
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- AAP – Questions and Answers about Vaccine Ingredients
- CDC – Vaccine Ingredients
- CDC – Vaccine Excipient and Media Summary
- FDA – Common Ingredients in U.S. Licensed Vaccines
- Vaccine Ingredients – Fetal Tissues
- IAC – Vaccines Originating in Abortion
- Descendants of human fetal cells in the making of vaccines
- Abortion, Autism and Immunization: The Danger of the Plausible Sounding Lie
- Human Cell Strains in Vaccine Development
- IAC – Vatican Statement on Vaccines Derived From Aborted Human Fetuses
- “Aborted fetal tissue” and vaccines: Combining pseudoscience and religion to demonize vaccines
- Antivax Myth: “Vaccines contain aborted fetal tissue”
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- Vaccine Ingredients – DNA
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- IAC – Talking about Vaccines : Religious Concerns
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- National Catholic Bioethics Center FAQ on the Use of Vaccines
- You Can Be the Pro-Life Parent of a Fully Vaccinated Child
- Catholics urged to remember ‘common good’ in vaccine debate
- Cultural Perspectives on Vaccination
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Last Updated on March 24, 2021