Women Doctors, Pro-Life Activists Issue Appeal to Resist Abortion-Tainted Vaccines

Even if the vaccines were not made using murdered babies, I wouldn't take an unapproved vaccine. Thalidomide, anyone?

From Edward Pentin

A group of nearly 100 women doctors, religious, politicians and pro-life activists from around the world have issued a heartfelt appeal to all people of goodwill to cease morally justifying the use of abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines, saying that failure to stand up and resist them is fueling an expanding culture of death involving experimentation and use of baby body parts.

The women signatories who include 100-year-old Dr. Wanda Półtawska, a friend of the late Pope St. John Paul II who was a victim of pseudo-medical experiments in a Nazi concentration camp, Abby Johnson, the U.S. anti-abortion activist, and Sister Deirdre Byrne, a former military general surgeon, argue that justification of such vaccines is based on “an incomplete assessment of the science of vaccination and immunology.”

The Full Statement: The Voice of Women in Defense of Unborn Babies and in Opposition to Abortion-tainted Vaccines

They state that due to the “notable lack of outcry” about producing and testing COVID-19 and other vaccines using cell lines from aborted fetuses, use of aborted children in such medical research has become not only generally accepted in recent decades but “expanded” to include “collecting and trafficking the bodies of murdered unborn babies” for experimentation which would “normally be considered unethical.”

“[The] general acquiescence to abortion-tainted vaccines, particularly by Christians, has only contributed to the culture of death,” the women signatories write, adding that they cannot “sit back” while the use of aborted human fetuses is “gradually normalized as an ‘unfortunate’ part of modern-day medicine.

“It is time for clergy and laity to boldly confront this horror and defend the right to life for the most vulnerable with ‘maximum determination,’” they continue. “This evil offshoot of abortion must be ended!”

The signatories, who include veteran Latin American pro-life leaders and former Pontifical Academy for Life members Mercedes Wilson de Arzu, Christine de Marcellus Vollmer and Dr. Pilar Calva, argue that even though these vaccines used aborted fetal cell lines from the 1960s and 1970s, their use today involves the “ongoing commercialization of the child’s body” and the promotion of further experimentation of “new aborted fetal tissue” in the future.

They therefore “humbly suggest” that Pope Francis, the Vatican and bishops worldwide “re-evaluate” their statements on COVID-19 vaccines. They should realize, they add, that aborted fetal cells were not only used in tests, but as an “integral part” of vaccine development. These vaccines have also not been rigorously tested for their efficacy, the average survival rate from COVID-19 infection is “higher than 98.3%,” and their “experimental nature” makes “urging, coercing or forcing” people to take them “a violation” of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, they state.

“Abortion is the modern-day Massacre of the Innocents,” the signatories say in the statement’s opening words, adding that, as women, they wished their “feminine cry to be heard round the world.” It came from “the depth of our maternal hearts,” they say, “which are devoted to defending the cause of life and combatting the culture of death.”

They express their wish not to be “complicit in the modern-day Massacre of the Holy Innocents” and so “refuse to accept any and all vaccines made using cells derived from aborted human fetuses.”

The women signatories, who published their statement on International Women’s Day, also describe in detail the full horror of abortion including precisely how aborted fetuses are used in the production and testing of vaccines.

“As Christians we are called to put on the mind of Christ and unite our hearts to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” the women conclude. “Therefore, we will not cooperate in this immense infanticidal cult.

“We will not be complicit. It is time to stand up!” they say in closing.

Pope Francis, who along with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI received his first dose of the Pfizer-manufactured vaccine in January that drew on aborted fetal tissue in laboratory tests, has been unremittingly supportive of such vaccines, going so far as to call inoculation an “ethical duty” and that opposition to immunization is not only inexplicable but a form of “suicidal denial.”

In a doctrinal note issued in December, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith stated that the use of the vaccines was “morally licit” primarily because cooperation in evil in the procured abortion was “remote.”

But the document also stressed that use of such vaccines did not equate to a moral endorsement of using cell lines proceeding from aborted fetuses, and that both pharmaceutical companies and governmental health agencies are encouraged to use “ethically acceptable vaccines.”