Autism-vaccination link: aborted human fetal cellsAugust 8, Long Island Parenting Examiner Patty Knap
By the time the average child enters school, he's already received an average of 36 vaccinations, many of them in the first 12 months of life. Several of these contain aborted fetal DNA and cellular contaminants.
Parents, scientists, and medical professionals are increasingly concerned about this, not only in terms of the obvious moral implications, but also the unknown short and long term health consequences.
Before children received so many vaccinations and before vaccines contained aborted fetal DNA, only 1 child out of 10,000 was diagnosed with autism; the rate is now 1 out of 150. Is there a link? Presently there is not enough definitive research to draw a conclusion. Only further, specific research will tell us.
Sound Choice Pharmaceuticals Institute (SCPI),
www.soundchoice.org, based in Seattle, is "committed to providing education, scientific research, development, and resources to encourage safe and moral medicines and therapeutics. According to Dr. Theresa Deisher, autism rates have continued to rise even since the elimination of mercury from vaccines.
Many parents feel they were not told about the use of aborted fetal tissue in these vaccines, although pharmaceutical product inserts list the ingredients in very fine print. However, the lists are only helpful if you know what the often vague medical terminology means, and naturally it isn't routine for a parent to ask for the ingredient list. Sometimes listed is "human diploid cells" but it is not specified that these cells are actually from aborted babies. Many times doctors themselves are unaware. Nor has the media wanted to focus on this uncomfortable fact. Yet, interestingly, there has been great attention on the mercury-in-vaccinations issue in recent years, particularly with respect to a possible autism link. The media near-total black out on the issue of aborted baby parts used in vaccines has further kept parents in the dark in terms of informed consent. With the exception of Catholic/Christian/conservative media outlets, there is little coverage of the topic. Apparently it has been, at least up until this point, a non-issue for the FDA. However, some parents do learn of the use of aborted babies in vaccinations and choose to opt out, either forgoing the vaccination altogether (which doctors strongly advise against), or seeking out a morally acceptable alternative.
An informative website covering this issue is
www.cogforlife.org, which provides a detailed list of which vaccinations contain aborted fetal tissue as well as any available pharmaceutical alternative.
In the June 2009 newsletter of Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute, Dr. Deisher writes, "A perceived fear of the safety of the US vaccination schedule has led increasing numbers of parents to opt out of full compliance. The numbers of children who are not fully vaccinated has now reached a point where 'herd' immunity may be compromised....Despite research ruling out mercury (Thimerosal) or the measles portion of one specific vaccine, autism continues to rise to a level of 1 in every 64 children in the UK. The national Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) Vaccine Safety Working Subgroup draft report recommends further study of the potential for vaccines to contribute to autism in children who have underlying mitochondrial disease, a worthwhile study given the clinical history of such children developing autism after vaccinations. What the NVAC has overlooked, however, in their recommendations is that epidemic regressive autism is associated with the switch from using animal cells to produce vaccines to the use of aborted human fetal cells for vaccine production. Now when we vaccinate our children, some vaccines also deliver contaminating aborted human fetal DNA. The safety of this has never been tested....."
The Long Island Coalition for Life August 2009 newsletter, Life News (
www.ProLifeLi.org) covers this topic in part one of a two-part series, to be continued in its September issue.
Sound Choice Pharmaceuticals is conducting the first bio-informatics and laboratory studies to determine the risk of genomic insertion of contaminating aborted fetal DNA in children's genes. With the enormous social implications and with millions of families now affected by autism, this research is crucial and long overdue.
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