The recent disclosure that vaccines were produced from tissues of aborted babies had three main pro-life reactions: the immediate one of repugnance; the second, "why were we not told?" the third, "what experimentation that we don't know about is going on now?" The answer to the last question is that human vivisection of live aborted babies is almost commonplace, even though it [...]
Canadian newspapers reported recently that next year the first “foolproof” birth control drug will be distributed in Europe. “First foolproof post pregnancy birth control pill” read the Ottawa Citizen caption. (Dec. 5). “Foolproof pill ready next year,” said the Toronto Sun. The Winnipeg Free Press, however, headed its short news item more accurately: “Abortion pill safe, labs say.” (Dec. 4). [...]
Oh boy! Dull moments around here are about as plentiful as white blackbirds. I returned from Europe to find The Interim office bussing with questions, counter-questions and speculations regarding the morality of using vaccine extracted from an aborted baby to inoculate school children against Rubella. According to reports, the vaccine being used in Canada was extracted [...]
Conversations concerning the rubella vaccine and fetal experimentation in general have jammed our telephone during the last month. I have heard such statements as, “let’s drop this: it’s not an issue we can win,” “there’s nothing wrong with this vaccine,” “good can come from evil,” and so on. Most opinions are strongly-held. This had touched a number of nerves. [...]
In 1729, the Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, published an essay entitled A Modest Proposal. The title is ironic because what he proposed was a scheme to solve the problem in Ireland by butchering children. In a carefully reasoned argument, he explains how the parents will be paid for raising small children who will then be [...]
In 1979, the League for Life of Manitoba publicized fetal experiments conducted at Winnnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre in 1973, 1974 and 1975. Babies of up to 25 weeks gestation, aborted through hysterotomy, had blood taken and their adrenals, gonads and pituitary glands removed. 213 babies were used in these experiments. Some had up to 8 ccs of blood taken [...]
The following two letters were sent to the Star and the Globe by Campaign Life in an attempt to correct their editorial presentation of the WI-38 Rubella vaccine story as the product of an irrational “fringe” group. The Editor The Toronto Star Dear Sir: Your December 2 editorial “Vaccine isn’t Abortion Issue” finds it “ironic” to see [...]
Mothers must have rubella during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy to affect their babies. A review of 15 major studies showed that only 16.9 per cent of the babies in contact with rubella would have defects. Rubella as an indication (reason) for abortion would see five healthy babies aborted for every one affected baby. The last [...]
The November Interim story on Rubella vaccine WI-38 was printed with the realization that experimentation on aborted babies, and even babies about to be aborted, is an ongoing enterprise around the world. We would draw the attention of our readers to the hidden and extensive nature of this hideous further refinement of the evil of abortion with the following [...]
In November 1984, The Interim front page story (“Aborted babies used for vaccine”), attracted national media attention. The reaction to information that the current rubella vaccine was developed from cells of an aborted baby varied from amused credulity that pro-lifers would reveal see no objection to continued use of the vaccine, while others are distressed that their children have [...]
In France, a recently published book documents international traffic in aborted fetuses for scientific research and for use in cosmetics. The Traffickers of the Unborn is written by Claud Jacquinot, a judge, and Jacques Delay, a journalist. M. Jacquinot is the founder of the French organization, "Laissez Vivre" ("Let Them Live"), which published the book. It has been known for some time [...]
The angel of death has a new disguise: health. More exactly, a life-saving inoculation. The vaccines used throughout Ontario and some other provinces, to protect Canadian school children from such diseases as rubella and rabies are derived from abortion. Human fetuses have been used by scientists to produce the cultures (WI-38 and MRC5 strains) from which the vaccines are made. We've all [...]
The Ontario Ministry of Health has confirmed in writing that the vaccine currently given to Canadian school children to prevent Rubella (German Measles) and Rabies has been and is being derived from the lung tissue of aborted babies. In Ontario, and some other provinces, vaccination is mandatory for all children entering both the public and separate school systems. Exemptions may be granted [...]
In Britain, the July report of the Warnock committee on the ethics of such matters as test-tube baby research has provoked considerable debate. The government-appointed committee, chaired by Dame Mary Warnock, recommends a ban on surrogate-motherhood agencies, both profit and non-profit making; a 14-day limit on experiments on human embryos; legitimization of children born by artificial insemination by donor; the freezing of [...]
S.M. In Australia, social psychologist, Dr. Robyn Rowland, has resigned as chairwoman of the research co-ordinating committee of the Queen Victoria Medical Centre in Melbourne. The purpose of the committee was to co-ordinate research into the effects of reproductive techniques on families. Dr. Rowland's resignation (in July, 1984) is a protest against attempts to "muzzle" her research into the Artificial Insemination by [...]