► Childhood Vaccines
by ALL
Released October 5, 2005

Kristine Severyn, R.Ph., Ph.D., founder of the Vaccine Policy Institute (251 West Ridgeway Drive, Dayton Ohio 45459) has argued against mandatory childhood vaccines for many years. In the most recent battle involving Hepatitis B vaccine and Rotavirus vaccines for newborns, she has set forth arguments questioning the safety of these vaccines, the efficacy of these vaccines and the basic need to even have children exposed to them under any circumstance.

In the case of Hepatitis B Dr. Severyn points out that "in the U.S. hepatitis B is mainly an adult disease of promiscuous homosexuals, heterosexuals and intravenous drug abusers. Chances are, your baby will never need hepatitis B vaccine, despite what the government health officials tell you."

And on the subject of the Rotavirus vaccine she states, citing problems with bowel obstruction, vomiting and diarrhea in newborns, she writes "the CDC and vaccine manufacturer deny any 'casual' link between the bowel obstruction cases and the vaccine. However, the CDC advises parents of recently-vaccinated babies to contact their doctor if the baby develops signs of intussusception (persistent vomiting, bloody stools, abdominal distention, and/or sever colic pain.'" American Home Products, the only rotavirus vaccine manufacturer, sold about $43 million worth of this vaccine in 1998, and $30 million in the first half of 1999."

Researchers and many in the medical field have long known that certain vaccines were developed specifically from the cells and/or tissues of babies killed by abortion. As recently as 1994 fetal skin cells were used in research conducted to develop vaccines destined to work against "selected pathogens."

The currently used rubella (German measles) vaccine was originally produced using cells from a 27-week old aborted baby. Writing about this obscene practice, freely admitted by the pharmaceutical companies, Professor Lawrence Roberge says that "the Rubella virus requires the culture of human cells." He points out that the currently used cell lines will eventually be depleted and that alternatives must be sought that will NOT use the remains of aborted children. Roberge, who is himself a scientist, suggests that alternatives already exist including "animal-based cell lines, such as monkey cell lines or chicken embryo egg culture. Further research is warranted, especially as the vaccine needs of our society increase with the appearance of new diseases and the development of antibiotic resistance by known disease organisms."

While the debate continues over whether or not a parent can, in good conscience, have his child vaccinated with a substance developed from the intentional destruction of another human being, Steven Kellmeyer, a moral theology expert, provides this insight:

Public use of the vaccines will not cause Merck and Co. or the abortionists to change their behavior. In fact, derived profits encourages their continued fetal tissue efforts in other avenues of research. They experience no downside. Is not this very fact scandalous?

The arguments supporting the morality of these vaccines do not stand up to scrutiny. Refusing to use these vaccines involves physical risk for ourselves, for our children, and for society. But their use poses an even greater risk to a just society. The widespread use of contraception has led inexorably to abortion, euthanasia and infanticide. Where might the widespread use of tissue taken from surgically aborted children lead us? Do we really wan to find out?

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