Why do anti-vax folks think that MRC-5 is the name of an electively aborted baby boy who is an ingredient in vaccines?
Of course…
Is MRC-5 the Name of an Electively Aborted Baby Boy?
So what’s the real story?
MRC-5 is a line of human diploid cells that are used to make some vaccines.
“The second human cell line is MRC-5 (Medical Research Council 5) (human, lung, embryonic) (ATCC number CCL-171), with human lung fibroblasts coming from a 14 week male foetus aborted for “psychiatric reasons” from a 27 year old woman in the UK. MRC-5 was prepared and developed by J.P. Jacobs in 1966 (J.P. Jacobs et al, 1970).”
Vatican Statement on Vaccines Derived From Aborted Human Fetuses
And despite what the sign implies, vaccines do not contain aborted fetal tissue or fetal parts.
The original MRC-5 cells aren’t even involved in making vaccines anymore. 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.”
“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.”
The Question of Parental Rights and Mandated Vaccinations
And even then, the cells are removed before the final vaccine is produced.
“Many Catholic experts concur that cooperation today is not really possible in an event that was over and done with many years ago. Because the abortion occurred long ago, and for reasons completely unrelated to vaccines, it is untenable to conclude that vaccine recipients today somehow cooperate in the original abortive event.”
The Morality of Vaccinating Our Children
So what about MRC-5 cells is keeping you from vaccinating and protecting your kids?
Vaccines are safe, with few risks, and are obviously necessary, preventing millions of deaths each year.
Don’t let someone holding an anti-vax sign to scare you away from making the right choice to vaccinate and protect your family.
More on MRC-5
- Which Vaccines Contain Aborted Baby Parts?
- The Catholic Church and Vaccines
- National Catholic Bioethics Center on Vaccines
- The Moral Responsibility of the Anti-Vaccine Movement
- Is the CDC Hiding MMR Excipients?
- More Questions to Help You Become a Vaccine Skeptic
- Who Are the Religious Leaders Who Are Against Vaccines?
- Why Are States Eliminating Religious Exemptions for Immunizations?
- Human Cell Strains in Vaccine Development
- Vatican Statement on Vaccines Derived From Aborted Human Fetuses
- Characteristics of a Human Diploid Cell Designated MRC-5
- Vaccines Originating in Abortion
- Descendants of human fetal cells in the making of vaccines
- The Morality of Vaccinating Our Children
- The Question of Parental Rights and Mandated Vaccinations
- The National Catholic Bioethics Center on the Use of Vaccines
- Abortion, Autism and Immunization: The Danger of the Plausible Sounding Lie
- “Aborted fetal tissue” and vaccines: Combining pseudoscience and religion to demonize vaccines
- Vaccines contain no aborted fetal cells
- Lies About Vaccine Ingredients — The Role of Fetal Cells
- You Can Be the Pro-Life Parent of a Fully Vaccinated Child
- How “aborted fetal cells” contributed to vaccines preventing billions of cases of disease and many million deaths
- Corvelva and “Vaccinegate”: Italian antivaxers produce a dubious “scientific report” on fetal DNA in vaccines
How do I know your not lying?
Just because you say so, I want more proof.
Your word is not enough.
There have been too many lies. Get honest.
I just noticed that you misspelled Iatrogenic. You spelled it with an L instead of an I. Doctors should know that – and I’ve had two doctors confirm that after effects of medications produce diverse symptoms loosely called Iatrogenic results. Usually, one medication produces sufficient ‘side effects’ for long enough to create a different medical condition requiring medication. So how wonderful is that!! Perhaps you can explain the increase in vaccine schedules in the past 15 years. Where I live, the schedule consists of 36 vaccines in groups of 6 or 7 before an infant is 18 months of age. My children maybe had 4. I maybe had 2. Still alive, thriving and not as sickly as the protected vaccinated population. I am not against vaccines. I am against propaganda FOR EXTREME VACCINATION SCHEDULES without substantive evidence of the need. We are a first world country using a more aggressive approach than some third world countries. Since you spend so much time defending the Vaccinate or Else propaganda, please explain this. Thanks
1. “distant association with abortion.” – so you’re implying that a “distant” association with murder is OK? I don’t believe God would agree with this. Is/should there ever be a statue of limitations on murder?
2. “The original MRC-5 cells aren’t even involved in making vaccines anymore. The cells used today have been copied, over and over again.” – So what? Could these vaccines have been made without murdering an unborn baby? If I steal something and make a copy of it, does than excuse the original crime – or profits therefrom?
Your implied assertion that the end justifies the means is deplorable, unethical, and most importantly, evil.
I will never willingly take a vaccine to save my life or anyone else’s when it comes by the murder of someone else – especially a defenseless baby.
If you are questioning whether you should get a vaccine derived at any stage from someone that was killed, listen to your conscience and don’t be complicit in the murder-for-profit big pharma companies push with their propaganda through websites like this.
The big push for the covid-19 vaccination is scary. What is really in it that the government wants you to have. I know of no Pharmaceutical company to give away free anything without a return in the future. They really only care about profits and not our well being.