Did you know?...
...that two recommended childhood vaccinations are made using aborted babies?
by Dr. Thomas J. Eads, M.D.

The following vaccination schedule is the current recommendation as of July 2004.
What you may not know is that the MMR [Measles, Mumps, Rubella] Vaccine and the Varicella [chickenpox] vaccines are both propagated [grown] on tissue derived from aborted babies. The cells are called "human diploid cells" in the product description [pdf of MMR product description | pdf of Varicella product description]

The following, less commonly used vaccines also are made using aborted babies:
Biavax [Rubella and Mumps]--Merck and Co.
ImoVax [Rabies] -- Connaught Laboratories
Havrix [Hepatitis A]--SmithKline Beecham
Meruvax II [Rubella]--Merck and Co.
M-R Vax [Measles and Rubella] -- Merck and Co.

What about Polio vaccines?
Much is written on the internet about Aventis-Pasteur vaccines containing the MRC-5 fetal line. The names given for the Aventis vaccines are inaccurate on most websites. If you are interested, visit Aventis-Pasteur here to read about their polio vaccines. It is not clear whether or not aborted babies are used or not for their polio vaccines. But the most common form of the polio vaccine today is GlaxoSmithKline's Pediarix which contains DTap, Hep B, and IPV. This product does NOT use aborted babies for its manufacture and thus is safe from an ethical standpoint. I accessed the information about Pediarix at www.pdr.net, but didn't link to it here because a password is needed.

What should I do if I want to immunize my children,
but don't want to use vaccines made with aborted babies?

There are options. First of all, only two of the recommended vaccines use aborted babies [the MMR and the varicella vaccine]. If you would like to have your child protected, consider the following:

Measles:
Merck & Co. has a measles only vaccine available that does not use aborted babies. The name is AttenuVax and can be ordered by your physician from Merck in a pack of 10 single use vials by calling 1-800-637-2579. The catalogue number for the AttenuVax is 458900. The AttenuVax would be administered at the normal times recommended for the MMR.

Mumps:
Merck & Co. also produces a mumps vaccine that does not use aborted babies. The name is MumpsVax and can be ordered by your physician from Merck in a pack of 10 single use vials by calling 1-800-637-2579. The catalogue number is 458400. There is an error at several websites that state that this product is made with aborted babies. This is not true and the product information for AttenuVax and MumpsVax can be downloaded here: Measles/Mumps Vaccine Product information: word | pdf

Rubella:
There is no currently available vaccine against rubella that is not propagated on human diploid cells [aborted babies].
Rubella is a mild childhood disease that is primarily vaccinated for due to the Congenital Rubella Syndrome [CRS]. CRS causes birth defects in babies of mothers who become infected during their first trimester. Approximately 25% of infected mothers will have a baby with some congenital abnormality. The World Health Organization has recommended one of two ways to prevent CRS:

"For countries wishing to prevent the occurrence of congenital rubella infection including CRS, two approaches are recommended:
1) prevention of CRS only, through immunization of adolescent girls and/or women of childbearing age; or
2) elimination of rubella as well as CRS through universal vaccination of infants, surveillance and assuring immunity in women of childbearing age."
Report of a meeting on preventing congenital rubella syndrome: immunization strategies, surveillance needs. Geneva, 12-14 January 2000

This means that prevention of CRS can be done with a single vaccination done at least one month prior to conception. Male children could permanently forego the vaccination according to the first strategy outlined by the WHO. Female children could wait until they are of childbearing age. At that time, a Rubella IgG blood antibody level could be drawn because she may have contracted a sub-clinical/mild case of rubella in childhood and have antibodies and never need the vaccination. Hopefully by that time there will be a commercially available rubella vaccine that does not use human fetal tissue. At the time of this writing, the author has learned that the rubella vaccine available in China does use human fetal tissue, and several rubella vaccines are available in Japan and I am unaware of the cell medium used for these vaccines. We will keep you up to date.

Varicella [chickenpox]:
There is no currently available chickenpox vaccine that does not use human diploid cells [aborted babies] to propagate the cells. The varicella vaccine is recommended by the CDC, but due to origin of the vaccine, there is a need for a varicella vaccine that is not derived from aborted babies.

What you can do:
We recommend that you let your doctor know that you don't want vaccines made from aborted babies. Call Merck & Co. [1-800-MERCK-Rx] and tell them that you would like a varicella and rubella vaccine that isn't propagated on human diploid cells. Call and write your Senators and Representative to discuss this issue with them. Finally, live by your convictions. Of what benefit are convictions if one is not willing to live by them? It is possible to properly protect your children from serious childhood illnesses and at the same time not promote abortion by using products made from aborted babies.

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