Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
A Coronavirus Vaccine Containing Aborted Baby Cells? Yes.
A Coronavirus Vaccine Containing Aborted Baby Cells? Yes.
A dear friend recently reacted to Bishop Joseph Strickland’s statement that he “will refuse” a potential vaccine for the coronavirus if it is made using tissue from “aborted children.”
Our
friend wrote that he wonders what our national response would be if we
were forced by law to receive such a vaccine. “It is a real question and
conundrum,” he said. “It is a question we should not have to ask in the
first place. What if it were the cells derived from a holocaust victim
that were being utilized. Would that neo-cannibalism be OK? Why not?”
Indeed.
We know that many labs around the world are
furiously working to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Among them are at
least two that are incorporating aborted fetal cells in their test
product.
Children of God for Life, the vaccine experts, reports that the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine uses aborted fetal cells, as does Johnson and Johnson’s. These vaccines are being unethically developed. On the other hand, Sanofi Pasteur’s version of the vaccine does not use the tainted cells.
According
to the Children of God for Life website, “In 2017, Sanofi Pasteur
bought Protein Sciences and is using this same platform for their newly
developing COVID-19 vaccine which will allow them the flexibility to
make millions of doses of vaccine quickly.”
Debi
Vinnedge, executive director of Children of God for Life, stated, “This
is great news for millions of people worldwide who are concerned with
the use of aborted fetal material in lifesaving treatments or vaccines. .
. . There is a multitude of moral options that are safer and quite
frankly, utilize a more modern technology.”
In
light of this good news, one would think that the Catholic leadership
in this nation would sound an alert and urge people to be aware of the
horror of the development of the vaccines using aborted baby cells. Yet
nary a word has been spoken against the development of the tainted
vaccines by any leadership group, including our American Catholic
bishops. Only one bishop has spoken out, while hundreds of them remain
silent. Where is the outrage?
According to numbers from the Catholic media, there are 441 bishops (active and retired) overseeing
196 Latin and Eastern rite dioceses in our nation. And even though the
nation is working through forms of isolation right now, the bishops have
a platform and could be teaching, speaking, and leading by using all
manner of modern technological communications.
Perhaps
the bishops, archbishops, and cardinals need to take a page from the
Planned Parenthood playbook. The coronavirus has not stopped PP. In
fact, this virus has generated more than a few opportunities for the
baby killers to grab headlines all over the place.
The latest mainstream opinion piece tells us all we need to know. In the pages of Rolling Stone,
Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson opines that “women
are trying to survive COVID-19. Politicians are trying to take away
their care.” She says that aborting a child is essential care for an
expectant mother. The idea that women are trying to hold our nation
together somehow justifies, in her view, a demand for total access to
abortion. She believes, along with so many others, that abortion is
healthcare.
Planned Parenthood rants that any effort to impede access to abortion is not only inhumane but unconstitutional—two
words that have nothing to do with the reality of what the act of
abortion does to a preborn baby. Killing someone is not a constitutional
right, but in America the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Thus,
our call to the bishops of this nation to stand up for truth, make
waves, and help us defend the defenseless. Nobody should be able to use a
pandemic to advance killing members of the human family or to rob the
bodies of dead preborn babies of their tissue and cells.
Stand
up for the babies and make your voice heard. Let the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops know you want them to join the battle to
defend the babies, especially now. Fighting a contagious virus is one
thing, but fighting to save the babies from the deadly act of abortion
is—and must be—paramount, no matter what.
CONTACT THE USCCB:
Send an e-mail focusing on your concerns that its members must step up and act!
Or call the USCCB offices at (202) 541-3000.
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