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(46,346 posts)
Wed May 13, 2015, 06:23 PM May 2015

This sounds like satire. It's not.

Anti-vaccinations AND anti-abortion?

Anti-vaxx pro-lifer attacks Democrat over aborted fetuses in vaccines — even though pope told her it was OK

medical alarmist group that opposes abortions and vaccines is folding its two causes together in an attempt to preserve California’s personal and religious exemptions to vaccinations.

Children of God for Life, which promotes the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism, objected to testimony given last week by state Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) during debate on Senate Bill 277.

Pan disputed what he described as a “myth” about aborted fetal cells in vaccines, saying the practice was used for one or two vaccines but is no longer done.

Debi Vinnedge, executive director of Children of God for Life, said the lawmaker should know better as a pediatrician, claiming that DNA and proteins are present in several other vaccines — and medicines – including hepatitis-A, MMRII, varicella, ProQuad, Pentacel, Zostavax, and some rabies.

“The people of California are looking to him as a medical expert but unfortunately, he continues to demonstrate an enormous lack of knowledge and credibility,” she said.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the rubella vaccine – which is part of the widely used MMR vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella — is cultured in “WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts” obtained more than 50 years ago from a legally and electively aborted fetus.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/anti-vaxx-pro-lifer-attacks-democrat-over-aborted-fetuses-in-vaccines-even-though-pope-told-her-it-was-ok/

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This sounds like satire. It's not. (Original Post) Archae May 2015 OP
Well, there you have the problem, it can not be done. ....(quote I reference).... uppityperson May 2015 #1
It needs to be pointed out the cell line is over 50 years old Warpy May 2015 #2
Yup. eom uppityperson May 2015 #4
Are people paid for being this sub-moronic? hifiguy May 2015 #3

uppityperson

(115,679 posts)
1. Well, there you have the problem, it can not be done. ....(quote I reference)....
Wed May 13, 2015, 06:35 PM
May 2015
“It is right to abstain from using these vaccines if it can be done without causing children, and indirectly the population as a whole, to undergo significant risks to their health,” Ratzinger told Vinnedge.

Warpy

(111,339 posts)
2. It needs to be pointed out the cell line is over 50 years old
Wed May 13, 2015, 06:47 PM
May 2015

and it's not like any aborted feti are being disassembled daily to provide cultures for the vaccine industry.

The significant risks to health and life come from people like Ratz who give antivax freaks ammo.

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