Over 200 years ago a medical student by the name of Edward Jenner successfully created the first vaccination ever. In the following years scientists engineered a variety of vaccines following Jenner’s model and by 1970 international vaccine programs, such as the World Health Organization, had created a smallpox vaccine that eliminated the disease worldwide. Since the implementation of vaccines, questions of safety have arose, especially from parents concerned with the health dangers of vaccinations. With the rise in quantity of vaccines, many individuals question the not only the necessity of them, but if the proper testing has been completed to ensure safety with inoculation. In today’s current society the CDC recommends an astounding fifteen
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The morbid actuality of these cell lines is that they are the tissues taken from forcefully aborted fetuses. WI-38 was an infant girl at three months gestation, MRC-5 was an infant boy at fourteen weeks gestation, and multiple other tissue samples were taken from forcibly aborted fetuses, totaling up to twenty-six aborted fetuses to get the right strain. The purpose behind originally collecting these tissue samples develop a rubella virus vaccination strain, although unknown to most people, rubella is an extremely mild virus where most individuals get a large rash, or simply do not show any symptoms at all; rubella only becomes dangerous to a women when she is pregnant. Considering the aspects of the rubella disease, there was absolutely no reason to abort fetuses for a vaccination, in fact, according to Vaxtruth.org, a website composed of doctors providing information on vaccinations, “What makes this seem somewhat ridiculous is that the Japanese, years before the first aborted infant was used to extract the Rubella virus, proved that the virus can be taken from a living child simply by swabbing their throat.” As stated above, the tissue extracted from aborted fetuses was unnecessary and could simply be collected by swabbing a living child's throat. Although these fetuses were aborted for a rubella vaccine in the beginning, these tissues, commonly known as human diploid cells, are found in over fifteen current vaccines. That does not even include DNA or human serum albumin, which are found in even more current
The morbid actuality of these cell lines is that they are the tissues taken from forcefully aborted fetuses. WI-38 was an infant girl at three months gestation, MRC-5 was an infant boy at fourteen weeks gestation, and multiple other tissue samples were taken from forcibly aborted fetuses, totaling up to twenty-six aborted fetuses to get the right strain. The purpose behind originally collecting these tissue samples develop a rubella virus vaccination strain, although unknown to most people, rubella is an extremely mild virus where most individuals get a large rash, or simply do not show any symptoms at all; rubella only becomes dangerous to a women when she is pregnant. Considering the aspects of the rubella disease, there was absolutely no reason to abort fetuses for a vaccination, in fact, according to Vaxtruth.org, a website composed of doctors providing information on vaccinations, “What makes this seem somewhat ridiculous is that the Japanese, years before the first aborted infant was used to extract the Rubella virus, proved that the virus can be taken from a living child simply by swabbing their throat.” As stated above, the tissue extracted from aborted fetuses was unnecessary and could simply be collected by swabbing a living child's throat. Although these fetuses were aborted for a rubella vaccine in the beginning, these tissues, commonly known as human diploid cells, are found in over fifteen current vaccines. That does not even include DNA or human serum albumin, which are found in even more current