Injecting Death
Promising life, while thriving on death.
The use of fetal cell lines in vaccines is a quasi-taboo subject today. I have found that the population tends to fall into one of only a few categories:
They refuse to believe that aborted fetal tissue is used.
They justify it by saying “It was only two abortions and at least it was used to do something good for humanity.”
They justify it by saying it was only for research and fetal tissue is used in a lot of products now.
They justify it by saying that it’s just used in the manufacturing process, and that there is no genetic material in the actual shot.
But the truth is that vaccine science and abortion go hand in hand.
Their histories are so intertwined that they cannot be separated.
Warning: some of this will be hard to read
If you research the experimentation with fetal cells, most timelines will start in the late 1950s. But as early as the 1930s, exploration into the use of fetal cell lines for medical science was already underway. While I can’t blame the scientific community for wanting to gloss over this era, erasing history never ends well, and while dark, this particular era is important.
In 1927 Buck v. Bell was heard by the United States Supreme Court. In this landmark case, the Court upheld a Virginia statute that allowed for the sterilization of individuals that were deemed “unfit” for the “protection and health of the state.” This was a major victory for American eugenics, the model which Hitler based his own political framework from, but I digress. As a result of this ruling, 70,000 Americans, if not more, were victims of state-mandated sterilization. The line was not drawn however, at just sterilization. If one of these categorized Americans was found to be pregnant, the pregnancy was terminated.
In 1936, Dr. Albert Sabin had just begun his work researching the polio virus, in search of a potential vaccine. Dr. Sabin was just one of many researchers around the world, working to develop a cure for polio. Researching this era from the perspective we have today, I would describe this as the era of mad scientists. This was a period when there were no limits or regulations restricting what could be done, and they were using everything they could get their hands on. They experimented with everything from embryos to adult organ tissues, to tissues taken from various animals, and even fully intact infants taken by “abdominal hysterectomy” which means that a woman was forced to undergo an abortion and hysterectomy via C-section.
“A new approach was made by the use of 3- to 4 months-old human embryos, obtained aseptically by Cesarean section...The brain and cord, the lungs, kidneys, liver, and spleen were stored in the refrigerator, fragments of these tissues being taken for the preparation of media at 3-day intervals.”
— Albert Sabin, 1936
Fast-forward to the 1960s, Dr. Leonard Hayflick at the Wistar Institute located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania began working with aborted babies in an attempt to obtain human cell strains that would provide a culture medium for the growth of viruses. These viruses, grown in the human cell culture (also called human diploid cell cultures) were thought to be a cleaner method than using cell lines from other species, reducing the risk of cells contaminated with other diseases.
In 1964, the Wistar Institute worked with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden to collect and dissect aborted babies, in order to obtain the rubella virus for vaccine development. This involved almost 70 abortions. The 27th baby in the rubella project provided the live virus that was used in the vaccine. Thus, the rubella virus was named RA 27/3 (Rubella, Abortus, 27th fetus, 3rd tissue explant). The virus was then grown in WI-38 cells, another cell line from another aborted baby.
It was never just two abortions.
Dr. Stanley Plotkin, who worked on the rubella vaccine at Wistar Institute, said “This fetus was chosen by Dr. Sven Gard, specifically for this purpose. According to the researchers, “both parents were known, and the abortion was done because they felt they had too many children.” Researchers also noted that there were no familial diseases in the history of either parent or no history of cancer specifically in the families.” This cell line was named WI-38. “WI” for Wistar Institute and “38” for the 38th fetal sample used in this research.
Over in Sweden, the Karolinska Institute didn’t end its experimentation on the unborn with WI-38, and in fact Dr. Ian Donald allegedly described the experiments he had witnessed there saying:
“Experiments were being performed on near-term alive aborted babies who were not even afforded the mercy of anesthetic as they writhed and cried in agony, and when their usefulness had expired, they were executed and discarded as garbage.”
If the Karolinska Institute sounds familiar to you, it is likely because it is the home of the Nobel Prize Assembly for Medicine and Physiology.
WI-38, this sequence of letters and numbers that identify everything except the infant it was taken from, is considered one of the most important developments in modern medicine. It is commonly used as an example of the important benefits of this practice, and yet- we celebrate everyone involved except the very infant the line came from. In fact, I think it is important to also note, that the woman whose abortion provided this baby never gave consent for this type of use.
The lack of consent and total disregard for the donor becomes a reoccurring theme for nearly all cell line research. This would eventually lead to a brief public debate when it came to light that the first immortal cell line, known as the HeLa cell line, was taken from Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman without her knowledge or consent. This cell line was developed in 1951, yet her family wasn’t even informed of its existence until 1975. Likely, they wouldn’t have been informed at all, had an accident not led to the contamination of a large portion of HeLa cells, leading researchers to solicit the family for blood donations in order to differentiate the HeLa cell from the contaminants. Neither Henrietta nor her family were given consent, compensation, and yet, her cells were mass produced and shipped to scientists around the world. Technological developments of the last 20 years have prompted even more concern about genetic information being made available in the public domain. Nearly 50 years after the cells were taken from Henrietta Lacks, the woman herself finally began to receive recognition for the contribution. The least they could do for a woman whose very cells changed science.
WI-38 will never be given the same respect. WI-38- another cell line that changed the world at one point, is now just a patent owned by the US Government.
Yet in the 60 years since the extraction of her tissue, her biological material has been injected into the majority of humans on earth. Likely including you. Today in states like California, New York, and Maine, participation in the abortion industry, and the continued purchase and injection of her cellular remains, is now compulsory. In these states, the continued exploitation of an infant that wasn’t even afforded a name, is now government-mandated in order to receive a formal education, access childcare, or even work in some sectors.
In 1966, Britain's Medical Research Council developed another cell line, from the lungs of an aborted baby boy. This abortion was performed on a 27-year-old, healthy young woman, for “psychiatric” purposes. This cell line was named MRC-5 and is used extensively in vaccine research and production. WI-38 and MRC-5 are two of the oldest cell lines used in medical science, but they are by far not the only two as some would want you to believe.
Since the successful use of fetal tissue, the development of new fetal cell lines has become an entire industry. The more fetal cell lines available for research and development, the more vaccines the manufacturers can create. Furthermore, WI-38 and MRC-5 will fail. Each cell line has a finite number of population doublings that can be done on it, and when that number is reached, the cell line will die and will need to be replaced.
Not all vaccinations are developed using fetal cell lines to culture viruses, this is true. However, that is not the only way that fetal cell lines are used to develop or produce new vaccines. For example, the cell line HEK-93 was used to map the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that was used for all of the current Covid-19 vaccines.
The vaccine industry is almost totally dependent on the abortion industry.
To develop cell lines, researchers need fetal tissue. In order for the tissue to be usable, the fetal tissue must be freshly collected and used almost immediately. This used to mean researchers needed to work closely with abortionists, and the abortions often had to be prearranged. With the passage of Roe v. Wade and the subsequent development of abortion becoming its own industry, the sale of fetal tissue has become a streamlined and lucrative industry in its own right.
We know now, thanks to investigations into the modern fetal tissue market, that abortion clinics are actually paid for this tissue. Though technically regulated, the regulations are vague, inconsistent, and easily worked around.
This leads to an important ethical question: could the mother be influenced into abortion?
Statistics actually suggest that it isn’t just possible, it’s likely. Statistical evidence has shown that women considering abortion are more likely to follow through with it if they know they know the baby will be used for scientific research.
In March 2021, a federal court ordered the US Dept. of Health and Human Services to release information about its purchase of organs harvested from aborted babies. This order was part of a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch’s press release explained how both the FDA and NIH had purchased organs from a bioscience resource company based in California, which had purchased the organs from Planned Parenthood. (See Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.)
There is no denying that the use of fetal tissues in medical science has roots in an era in which eugenics flourished, people were assigned value, and far too many people were dehumanized. This was a time when medical and scientific experimentation was unregulated. Left to the devices of their own wild ambitions, researchers justified dehumanizing and barbaric practices in the name of science. Most of those practices would horrify us today, and rightly so. Yet when it comes to the use of fetal tissue, many will still defend the practice vociferously.
Regardless of the excuses used to justify this barbaric practice, the two industries depend on one another. Vaccination has become an economic titan. The U.S. vaccine market was worth $34.37 billion in 2022 and is projected to grow 8.2% in the next few years. The majority of that market is pediatric vaccination, and a majority of the standard pediatric vaccines are dependent on fetal cell lines.
Each current vaccine using a fetal cell line, will need a new cell line in the future. And vaccine manufacturers need additional fetal cell lines for new vaccine development. Currently, there are over 100 new vaccines at various stages of development. Thus, Pharmaceutical companies are willing to purchase an increasing amount of fetal tissue. As a result, abortionists and biomedical resource companies acting as middlemen are financially incentivized to encourage and perform more abortions, so that they can meet the pharmaceutical demand for fetal tissue, and continually increase their own profit-margins.
And on and on it goes……
an unholy alliance that thrives on death, even as it promises life.
As if all of this was not horrific enough in a so-called civilized society, people will argue that it doesn’t matter, because the fetal tissue or cell lines are not in the final shot that is given to children everywhere. Except that this is not true either. In fact, not only is it not true, but it’s also not even denied. Manufacturers and regulatory agencies alike admit openly that DNA fragments remain in the final vaccine in detectable amounts. They don’t deny it, however, in the very next breath they will also insist that it’s perfectly safe. But we must ask ourselves if that is even true, and how would they know since they acknowledge that vaccines are not tested for mutagenic effects?
Today, there are several cell lines, there are numerous vaccines made with fetal cell lines, and there are more of each being developed all the time. Proponents would argue that it is necessary, that the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. They will tout the success of the products developed with fetal tissue, and all but claim the world was saved because of this practice. But I can’t help but wonder, if we had never gone down this particular road, would we have all been doomed like they suggest? Or perhaps, would we have maybe developed better, cleaner medicines and technologies?
Some examples of cell lines currently in use in vaccinology:
WI-38 (Winstar Institute, 32nd Abortion, 38th Specimen) Used to culture Rubella for the MMR vaccine
This is a diploid human cell culture line composed of fibroblasts derived from lung tissue of an aborted Caucasian female. This cell line was taken from the lung tissue of a girl at 3 months gestation. The abortion was performed in Sweden, and then shipped to Leonard Hayflick at the Winstar Institute. Her cell line is now a patent owned by the US Government. In the 60 years since the extraction of her tissue, her biological material has been injected into the majority of humans on earth. Likely including you. Today in Maine, participation in the abortion industry, and the continued purchase and injection of her cellular remains, is government-mandated to receive a formal education, access childcare, or even work in some sectors.
MRC-5 (Medical Research Council, Abortion No. 5) Used in some Polio brands, DTaP, HIB, Rabies, Chickenpox, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, and Zostavax for shingles
This cell line was derived from the human lung tissue of a 14-week gestation baby, taken from a 27-year-old woman for “psychiatric reasons.”
HEK-293 (Human Embryonic Kidney, Specimen No. 293) Used to map the spike protein for the Covid-19 vaccines
This cell line derived from human embryonic kidney cells of a healthy baby in the Netherlands. However, the gestational age was never recorded, and the researcher has since claimed that he could not remember if this child was the product of an abortion, or a miscarriage. This cell line was used to map the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein; therefore, it was used to develop ALL current Covid-19 vaccines. (While the genetic material does not remain in the final product in this process, it is another example of how dependent the vaccine industry is on the abortion industry.) It is also used in an Ebola vaccine, as well as other drugs.
RA-27/3 (Rubella, Abortion, Specimen No. 27, 3rd Tissue) Used to isolate the Rubella virus, which was then propagated in the MRC-5 cell line, for the manufacturing of the MMR vaccine
This cell line was derived from the kidney of a baby aborted at 6 weeks gestation. This was one of 67 total elective abortions used to isolate the rubella virus. This is in addition to the 32 abortions used to produce the cell lines for cultivation. This totals at minimum 99 elective abortions to create one vaccine.
PER.C6 Used in Ebola, HIV, Malaria, TB, and Covid-19 (J&J) vaccines
This cell line was designed specifically for the pharmaceutical industry, and is used in Ebola, HIV, Malaria, and TB vaccines currently in development. It is also currently used in the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, and fragmented DNA does remain in the final product. This cell line was developed in 1985 from the retinal tissue of a baby at 18 weeks’ gestation. The only notes on this baby were that the father was unknown, and the mother wanted to “get rid of the fetus.”
WalVax-2 Developed specifically to replace the depleting supply of WI-38 and MRC-5 and currently used in some Covid-19 vaccines
This cell line was developed in Wuhan, China, from the lung tissue of a 3-month-gestation female who was ultimately selected from 9 aborted babies. Perhaps one of the more harrowing of cell lines, this baby was delivered via induction using a “water bag abortion” which is used to shorten the time of delivery. This method is designed to keep the baby alive for the tissue extraction, so that the tissue is alive and fresh.
While these are some of the cell lines that are most commonly used in the development and production of vaccines, they are by far not the only cell lines in use. In fact, today, the pharmaceutical industry has become increasingly reliant on fetal cells for everything from disease research, to humanizing mice, to product development.