Aborted Fetal Cell Line Products and Ethical Alternatives
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U.S. AND CANADA - ABORTED FETAL CELL LINE PRODUCTS AND ETHICAL ALTERNATIVES Disease Product Name Manufacturer Fetal Cell Line Ethical Version Manufacturer Cell Line Chickenpox Varivax, Varilrix Merck, GSK WI-38, MRC-5 None N/A N/A Hepatitis A Vaqta, Havrix Merck, GSK MRC-5 Aimmungen Kaketsuken Vero (monkey) Avaxim, Epaxal Sanofi, Berna MRC-5 Not available in US (Japan & Europe) Hepatitis A & B Twinrix GSK MRC-5 Engerix Hep-B Only GSK Yeast Hepatitis A & Typhoid Vivaxim Sanofi MRC-5 Recombivax Hep-B Only Merck Yeast Measles/Mumps/Rubella MMR, Priorix Merck, GSK RA273, WI-38 None N/A N/A MR Vax Merck RA273, WI-38 Measles-Rubella Attenuvax (Measles Only) Merck Chick embryo Eolarix GSK. RA273, MRC-5 Mumps-Rubella Biavax II Merck RA273, WI-38 Mumpsvax (Mumps Only) Merck Chick embryo Takahashi Kitasato Institute Rabbit Rubella Meruvax II Merck. RA273, WI-38 Not available in US (Japan & Europe) RA273, WI-38, MMR + Chickenpox ProQuad/MMR-V Merck. None N/A N/A MRC-5 Poliovax, Polio Sanofi Pasteur MRC-5 IPOL Sanofi Pasteur Vero (monkey) DT Polio Adsorb. Polio Combination Pentacel, Quadracel Pediacel; Pediarix + HiB Sanofi Vero (monkey) Sanofi Pasteur MRC-5 (DTaP + polio+ HiB) Infanrix-Hexa IPOL + any DTaP GSK Rabies Imovax Sanofi Pasteur MRC-5 RabAvert Chiron Chick embryo Rheumatoid Arthritis Enbrel Amgen WI-26 VA4 Humira Abbott Labs CH Hamster Ovary Sepsis Xigris Eli Lilly HEK-293 Ask your doctor N/A N/A Shingles Zostavax Merck. WI-38, MRC-5 None N/A N/A New: Smallpox Acambis 1000 Acambis MRC-5 ACAM2000, MVA3000 Acambis/Baxter Vero, Chick Embryo In Development Ebola TBA Crucell/NIH PER C6 None N/A N/A In Development Flu, MedImmune PER C6, FluVirin, Flu Shield, Chiron, Medimmune Chick embryo TBA Avian Flu Vaxin, Sanofi HEK-293 Flumist, FluZone, FluBlok Sanofi, Protein Sci. Caterpillar In Development: HIV MRKAd5 HIV-1 Merck PER C6 None N/A N/A Note: Immune-Globulin shots will provide temporary immunity (4-6 months) for Hepatitis-A and Rubella (3 months) Physician Order Line : Merck (Measles, Mumps) 800-422-9675 GSK: (Hepatitis-B) 866-475-8222 Sanofi Pasteur: (Polio) 800-822-2463 Chiron:(Rabies) 800 244-7668 (PST) NOTE: ANY VACCINE NOT LISTED ABOVE DOES NOT USE ABORTED FETAL CELL LINES. Current Trends Because the pharmaceutical industry perceives How Can You Help? public acceptance of the current vaccines, they continue to utilize both existing and new aborted • fetal sources for vaccine development. The latest Ask your doctor to supply the is a new fetal cell line, PER C6, created by Dutch existing ethical alternatives pharmaceutical, Crucell, NV. This cell line uses the retinal tissue of an 18-week gestation baby, • Support our FLICA legislation VACCINES FROM created specifically for vaccine development. ABORTION which demands fair labeling and A Choice – And A Moral Duty! informed choice on medical THE HIDDEN TRUTH Similar to adult stem cell therapies, which are products using aborted fetal or viable alternatives to using destroyed human embryonic cell lines For over thirty years pharmaceutical companies embryos, vaccines can be made using ethical have been quietly producing vaccines using the remains of aborted babies, a fact that was sources. Instead, the present tainted vaccines have • been used to justify further immoral research. In Get the word out – let the deliberately hidden from the general public for Aug., 2001 President Bush rationalized funding Pharmaceutical Companies decades. But as the grisly details emerged embryonic stem cell research by using the know how you feel - and join through several pro-life publications, a growing number of parents and physicians were both chickenpox vaccine as a precedent, since the embryos, like the aborted babies, had already shocked and deeply disturbed to discover the been destroyed. But in both cases, human beings The Campaign truth surrounding these vaccines – and rightfully were intentionally and callously slaughtered for For Ethical Vaccines so! What follows is just the tip of the iceberg! research purposes. Unless the public refuses to During the 1964 Rubella epidemic some doctors tolerate this exploitation of our unborn, it will To read about our legislation, obtain copies advised rubella-infected pregnant women to only worsen. We were successful with our of our petition or for further information, abort their children, based on the fear their child smallpox campaign by demanding an ethical might be born with birth defects. Working along alternative and we must continue this sort of visit our website: side these doctors, researchers collected the live pressure. In a recent Vatican document, our moral fetal tissue. Ultimately, they extracted the virus duty to do just that was made abundantly clear: Children of God For Life from the 27 th aborted baby’s kidney, labeling it th “Doctors and fathers of families have a duty to RA273. (R=Rubella, A=Abortus, 27=27 http://www.cogforlife.org rd take recourse to alternative vaccines...putting abortion in the study, 3=3 tissue explanted) This virus was then cultivated on WI-38 (Wistar pressure on the political authorities and health 4613 Barfield Crescent Rd systems so that other vaccines without moral Institute No. 38) a cell line produced from the problems become available. They should take Murfreesboro, TN 37128 lung tissue of a 3 months gestation female baby, recourse, if necessary, to the use of conscientious 615-898-1070 electively aborted in Sweden. But prior to objection with regard to the use of vaccines perfecting WI-38, there were numerous other produced by means of cell lines of aborted human NOTE: As new vaccines are being developed abortions involved in the research. Ultimately, foetal origin. Equally, they should oppose by all Children of God for Life will monitor their scientists documented at least 61 elective means in writing, through the various production and list them on our website and in abortions to produce the rubella vaccine alone. associations, mass media, etc., the vaccines which our brochures, which are frequently updated. Following the US lead, 10 years later scientists do not yet have morally acceptable alternatives, in the UK developed MRC-5, taken from the creating pressure so that alternative vaccines are Produced by Children of God for Life lung tissue of a male baby aborted at 14 weeks prepared, which are not connected with the gestation These two fetal cell lines are used to abortion of a human foetus, and requesting - Copying Permissible - continuously cultivate the weakened virus rigorous legal control of the pharmaceutical strains of several diseases to produce vaccines. industry producers.” (PAFL, June 2005) (Release Date: September, 2008) .