Because the pharmaceutical industry perceives public acceptance of the current vaccines, they continue to utilize both existing and new aborted fetal sources for vaccine development.  The latest is a new fetal cell line, PER C6, created by Dutch pharmaceutical, Crucell, NV.  This cell line uses the retinal tissue of an 18-week gestation baby, created specifically for vaccine development.

Similar to adult stem cell therapies, which are viable alternatives to using destroyed human embryos, vaccines can be made using ethical sources.  Instead, the present tainted vaccines have been used to justify further immoral research.  In August 2001 President Bush rationalized funding embryonic stem cell research by using the chickenpox vaccine as a precedent, since the embryos, like the aborted babies, had already been destroyed.  But in both cases, human beings were intentionally and callously slaughtered for research purposes.  Unless the public refuses to tolerate this exploitation of our unborn, it will only worsen.  We were successful with our smallpox campaign by demanding an ethical alternative and we must continue this soil of pressure.  In a recent Vatican document, our moral duty to do just that was made abundantly clear:

"Doctors and fathers of families have a duty to take recourse to alternative vaccines. . . putting pressure on the political authorities and health systems so that other vaccines without moral problems become available.  They should take recourse, if necessary, to the use of conscientious objection with regard to the use of vaccines produced by means of cell lines of aborted human foetal origin.  Equally, they should oppose by all means in writing, through the various associations, mass media, etc., the vaccines which do not yet have morally acceptable alternatives, creating pressure so that alternative vaccines are prepared, which are not connected with the abortion of a human foetus, and requesting rigorous legal control of the pharmaceutical industry producers?"  (PAFL June2005)