June 2020 – Article 1:

(Note: Development of a COVID vaccine is a rapidly developing situation. Some facts may have changed since publication of this article).

Solving one tragedy should never require exploiting another tragedy.

To prevent that from happening in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, Georgia Right to Life (GRTL) today launched a petition campaign aimed at ensuring that vaccines approved for use in the U.S. are not developed using body parts obtained from a child killed by abortion.

It also asks the government to publicize the fact that there will be an ethical choice available to pro-Personhood advocates.

“As physicians, scientists, and public policy analysts continue to review ongoing research and evaluate the varied responses to the pandemic, it’s imperative that the development of vaccines are not based on exploiting the brutal death of innocent children,” said GRTL President Ricardo Davis.

GRTL Petition Campaign Directed to President Trump and FDA

The petition is directed to President Donald Trump and Stephen Hahn, Commissioner of the federal Food and Drug Administration.

Davis said the petition is necessary because several of the vaccines being developed use aborted baby body parts, including one that recently received $1.2 billion in U.S. aid to speed up its development as part of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed goal to secure 300 million vaccine doses as early as this fall.

“This is regrettable. Millions of pro-Personhood advocates would have a serious problem taking that vaccine, especially since there are other vaccines being developed that use ethical methods,” Davis said. “As long as officials have choices, they need to understand that pro-Personhood advocates are strongly opposed to any vaccine developed in an unethical way.”

Pro-Personhood Advocates Will Support an Ethical Vaccine

Pro-personhood advocates would support a vaccine such as one being pursued by an American company which is conducting a promising trial of a vaccine in Australia that is not based on using aborted baby body parts.

Many vaccines are developed in living cells, including those obtained from abortions, to create a “viral protein” that in turn produces antibodies that protect us. Even if the cell line was derived from a child aborted years ago, using them to produce a COVID vaccine is still wrong.

There is a chain of actions from the original abortion and harvesting the child’s tissue, to creating a fetal cell line, to using it in creating a vaccine, and finally marketing it for use.

“It doesn’t matter how much time as elapsed from the original wrong, it’s still unethical to use them today,” Davis said. “Ignoring how a vaccine was developed promotes the idea that children in the womb are merely property to be used in research that can be condoned as an acceptable health care practice.”

“The same devaluing of human Personhood was the unethical foundation of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in Negro males. It took decades of concerns raised to eventually stop the study, and GRTL is likewise committed to raising the ethical concerns of creating vaccines using the bodies of children killed by abortion,” Davis said.

GRTL strongly urges you to join us in this critical effort and sign the petition.

Sign the Petition Here

Sources: lifesitenews.com; lozierinstitute.org; bioethics.org.uk; reuters.com; medicalcountermeasures.gov.

By Wayne DuBois

Georgia Right to Life

Media Relations Advisor