Who Is Using Fear and Misinformation? And How Covid-19 Vaccine Relies On Aborted Fetal Cell Lines

James Doogue

In an interesting FB debate on the vaccine I saw one advocate blame those who spread fear and misinformation and quoted 2 Timothy 1:7 saying they chose to put their faith in God to keep them safe from Covid-19 with the vaccine.

I thought it an excellent example of how the scriptures can be used to support almost any stance if you frame it correctly.

The fact is, the government have used fear and misinformation to drive the Covid-19 agenda. To turn the world upside down and suspend basic human rights.

We are having this debate because the government has misinformed us. Told us we are all at risk of dying from Covid-19. That's simply untrue. Covid-19 is deadly for the old and frail, the obese, and those with multiple co-morbidities, or a serious health condition.

- 80% of those who have died from Covid-19 were obese,

- Less than 5% of Covid-19 deaths had no known co-morbidities, with the rest having an average of more than four.

- Japan had less than 1/20th the death rate of Covid-19 as the US and no lock-downs because fewer people in Japan are obese.

Unless you are elderly or medically vulnerable you never had any reason to fear Covid-19, or to be locked down. At least no more fear than you have with every flu season.

You could ask this vaccine advocate, why not put your faith in God that you will be kept safe from Covid-19 rather than being kept safe with a man-made vaccine?

I wondered if this person complaining about vaccine misinformation, had been informed of the role abortions played in vaccine developing and testing.

Pfizer and Moderna performed confirmation tests (to ensure the vaccines work) using fetal cell lines. And Johnson & Johnson uses fetal cell lines in vaccine development, confirmation and production.

Fetal cell lines are not the same as fetal tissue, they were developed from fetal tissues.

Fetal cell lines are cells that grow in a laboratory. They descend from cells taken from elective abortions in the 1970s and 1980s. Those individual cells from the 1970s and 1980s have since multiplied into many new cells over the past four or five decades, creating fetal cell lines. Current fetal cell lines are thousands of generations removed from the original fetal tissue.

Vaccine makers may use these fetal cell lines in any of the following three stages of vaccine development:

- Development: Identifying what works
- Confirmation: Making sure it works
- Production: Manufacturing the formula that works

When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccines currently approved for emergency use, neither the Pfizer nor Moderna vaccines used fetal cell lines during the development or production phases. (So, no fetal cell lines were used to manufacture the vaccine, and they are not inside the injection you receive from your doctor.) However, both companies used the fetal cell line HEK 293 in the confirmation phase to ensure the vaccines work. All HEK 293 cells are descended from tissue taken from a 1973 elective abortion that took place in the Netherlands.

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is a bit different. It is an adenovirus vector vaccine. (Adenovirus is the virus that causes the common cold. The virus in this vaccine has been changed so that it does NOT cause illness.)

With this type of vaccine, a carrier, in this case adenovirus, acts as a delivery vehicle. The adenovirus has had the coronavirus spike protein added to its DNA. The adenovirus carries that genetic material into your body, delivering its modified DNA to your cells. Your cells will then make the spike protein, activating your immune system. Once activated, your immune system creates antibodies to fight off the spike protein.

To make their virus vector vaccine, Johnson & Johnson infects PER.C6 fetal cell line cells with adenovirus. All PER.C6 cells used to manufacture the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are descended from tissue taken from a 1985 elective abortion that also took place in the Netherlands. They use this cell line because it is a well-studied industry standard for safe and reliable production of viral vector vaccines.

Not that the Vatican has set high moral standards in recent years, but the Vatican has issued a guidance that permits Roman Catholics in good faith to receive COVID-19 vaccines that use fetal cell lines in development or production when alternatives are not available. Seems like a cop out to me, but you can read that here:

Vatican: Without Alternatives, Current Covid 19 Vaccines are Morally Acceptable

Tim adds:

That is a HUGE copout by the Vatican. Either it is o.k. to use fetal stem cell lines or it is not. If it is not (and that is based on the idea that these stem cell lines are fetal clones) then you cannot abrogate the moral imperative. Pope Francis has no authority to make such a proclamation.

He is essentially saying "this is immoral but I am excusing Catholics from the consequences of this immorality because of need." That is a slippery slope argument. Anything is permissible using this reasoning.

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