"We support urging the
(pharmaceutical) companies to do it differently, " said Doerflinger, the US bishops' pro-life aide. " I think Debi Vinnedge has
done tremendous work in focusing people's attention on this issue."
Richard Doerflinger, Associate Director
USCCB Pro-Life Secretariat
National Catholic Register Volume 77 No. 41 October 14 - 20, 2001 A Better Way: Campaign for Clean Vaccines Gathers
Steam
"It
is our hope that alternative vaccines are developed that do not derive from the
cells or tissues of babies killed by procured abortion or any other method of
bio-research which includes the destruction of embryonic babies.
The human being begins at conception/fertilization, and even when that
person is described as a "left over embryo" his humanity is not in
question. Therefore, we urge
development of vaccines that do not rely on the killing of any person whose life
begins at fertilization."
Judie Brown, President
American Life League
Stafford, VA
"Thank you for the invitation to support the campaign to have pharmaceutical companies provide safe and effective vaccines not derived from aborted fetal tissue. I support this plan and you have my permission to use my name.
May God bless your efforts."
+Edward J. O'Donnell
Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana
"
The American Association of Pro-life Pediatricians, an organization composed of
600+ board certified, mainly practicing pediatricians enthusiastically endorses
the project to encourage the manufacture and use of vaccines untainted by
production from cell lines procured from tissues from aborted fetuses."
Eugene Diamond, MD
President - American Association of Pro-Life Pediatricians
"Most
physicians are not aware of the source of the vaccines.
I had to investigate the issue when one of my patients expressed concern.
Only then did I learn this. Because
such a high number of vaccines are mandatory in Massachusetts, I think it is
compulsory that people have a choice of other sources that do not utilize
morally repugnant Mengelesque (Joseph Mengele) cannibalization of human
suffering."
John R. Diggs, Jr., MD
Co-Chairman Massachusetts Physician Resource Council
South Hadley, MA
"Whereas, many live vaccines are grown on cell-culture lines (MRC-5 and WI-38) obtained from tissue acquired from aborted humans and,
Whereas, the use of these vaccines constitutes remote material cooperation with the abortions, and
Whereas, there is a duty to protect patients from infectious disease by immunizations wherever possible,
Therefore, be it resolved that the Catholic Medical Association will promote the use of any available vaccines grown on tissues not acquired from aborted humans.
Be it further resolved that American vaccine manufacturers be encouraged to develop alternative vaccines grown on cell lines which are not by products of abortion."
Robert
J. Saxer, MD
President
Catholic Medical Association (CMA Resolution October 2000)
"Medications, including biologicals like vaccines, must be manufactured and targeted to help preserve health and life. In the process of doing so, they cannot be derived or in anyway gotten by immoral or illicit means, including killing of patients, no matter what age, size, location or stage of development. Anything less is a violation of not only human law, but more importantly a higher transcendent Divine law by which all must abide."
Bogomir
Kuhar, PharmD, FASCP
Pharmacists
for Life
"I have always thought that one of the issues in this is
overlooked because of the origins of the tissue, that is, the trafficking and
profiting aspect. I think a prudent person could judge
it immoral to profit from these vaccines. I also think, therefore, that in conscience one could refuse to cooperate in that aspect of the
business."
Father Edward Richard
Professor of
Moral Theology Kenrick-Glennon
Seminary, St. Louis, MO
“It is not morally permissible to reap the research benefits from a
deliberately induced abortion without, in some sense, being an accomplice to
that abortion. Benefiting from a fetal cell line like MRC-5 involves complicity
with the induced abortion from which the cells were obtained. We could grant
that the use of cell lines from induced abortions is several steps away from the
abortion itself, but that doesn't break the chain of complicity.”
Father Albert Moraczewski,
OPD, PhD
Founding President and Senior Consultant, National Catholic Bioethics Center
"This axis of pharmaceutical companies and government administrators
hangs on to a monopoly of the vaccines to the distress of millions of parents. Such action is tyranny,
is Un-American, is anti-life and anti-morals. It drags unwilling people willy-nilly
into their diabolical, hellish culture of death that wreaks of sulphur. This culture
of death coarsens the moral fabric of American society, cheapens the respect for life among our citizenry, and makes daily living for all of us
less safe from crime and terror. To protest against this evil practice is a noble cause.
All parents and concerned citizens should cooperate in order to finally release the nation from this stranglehold monopoly on vaccines
wielded by smirking pharmaceutical agents who are driven by profit, and perhaps some of them, by a lust for evil. Parents should be
freed from this stranglehold monopoly. Cooperate, then, in this noble endeavor toward the betterment of our nation. Every one who is pro-life should
join the movement to obtain alternative vaccines that are not tainted with the blood of a murdered child."
Father
Anthony Zimmerman, STD
Retired Professor of Moral
Theology, Divine Word Seminary of Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan
http://www.catholicmind.com
"One of Focus on the Family's foundational principles is the sanctity of all human life. As such, we oppose the use of tissue from elective abortions because it devalues the human life that begins at conception and could lead to an even greater acceptance in society of the practice of abortion. Because of these beliefs we are encouraged by your organization's efforts to fight against those pharmaceutical companies that would seek to profit from abortion."
Steve
Christakis, Correspondence Asst to Dr. James Dobson
Focus
on the Family, Colorado Springs, CO
"The members of
Professionals for Excellence in Health Care would like to take this opportunity
to support your efforts to obtain vaccinations that are NOT derived from aborted
fetuses. Although many of us are
medical professionals, we were unaware of the controversial origin of the
vaccines. The effort you have made to educate professionals and
the general public is a great service to all."
Jana Carpenter, RN, MS
Professionals for Excellence in Health Care