What is it?
Since the early 1970s, the World Health Organization has been funding research on a vaccine that would make a woman immune to her own babies in the womb. The purpose is to produce a fairly inexpensive chemical compound that can be injected perhaps once a year.
How does the vaccine work?
Researchers are actually working on two different types of anti-fertility vaccine.
One is called the anti-hCG vaccine. It acts against the natural effects of a hormone called human chorionic gonadotrophin, or hCG. This hormone is produced by the new human embryo, and helps this tiny boy or girl implant in the lining of the mother’s womb.
The vaccine “teaches” the mother’s immune system that the new human being is foreign and must be destroyed. The tiny human will be destroyed before it has the opportunity to implant, and this is abortion.
Abortion is an act of direct killing that takes the life of a tiny human being-a life that begins at fertilization.
The other vaccine, Trophoblastic Antigen (TBA), trains the woman’s body to recognize the human embryo’s outer layer of protection as foreign to her body. Her immune system would then react by destroying the outer layer of protection and, subsequently, the tiny human being. The woman would have no disruption of her menstrual cycle and it is believed that she would never know that she had been pregnant.
Researchers hope that one day a vaccine will be developed that will last at least 5 years.
Are these vaccines safe?
The simple answer to the question is that nobody knows. Early research has shown potential side effects, including possible harm to the woman’s immune system with a potential lasting effect that could render the immune system ineffective.
Sadly, because these chemicals are still in the “testing on animals” stage in the United States, not much is known about long-term or short-term side effects.
We do know, however, that these vaccines have been used in third world countries. The women who received them never realized that they were being vaccinated against having babies.
Why do you need to know about this vaccine?
While the public may be led to believe that this vaccine (when approved) would protect a woman from getting pregnant, she could in fact become pregnant anyway. Her body’s own immune system would then kill her baby.
Further, there is a great concern that once a vaccine like this is fully developed — and the public is persuaded that a vaccination against babies is a good idea — women themselves will become the guinea pigs long before there is enough information to determine whether or not the vaccine is safe.
You might think that such a thing could not happen in America, but please don’t forget that when the birth control pill was first approved here, no one knew it had a relationship with various cancers, blood diseases and heart problems.
When Norplant was approved, no one knew that it could make a woman blind.
Be good to yourself. Don’t take chances with anti-fertility vaccines.
Sources:
“A Booster for Contraceptive Vaccines,” Science, 12/2/94
“Abortifacient Vaccines: Technological Update” by Lawrence Roberge, M.S., CASE Bulletin, 8/96.
Medical consultant: Stephen Spaulding, M.D. Dr. Spaulding is a board-certified family practitioner whose writings have appeared in a variety of medical journals.
“A Booster for Contraceptive Vaccines,” Science, 12/2/94
“Abortifacient Vaccines: Technological Update” by Lawrence Roberge, M.S., CASE Bulletin, 8/96.
Medical consultant: Stephen Spaulding, M.D. Dr. Spaulding is a board-certified family practitioner whose writings have appeared in a variety of medical journals.