Vatican says, Parents must oppose vaccines from human foetal remains

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -WEDNESDAY JULY 20TH 2005:

 

Vatican says, " Parents must oppose vaccines from human foetal remains "

 

For immediate release - July 20, 2005:

For the first time ever, the Vatican has issued a statement condemning the

use of any and all vaccines derived from human foetal remains and exhorted

Catholics and all others who oppose this use, to lobby for the development

of alternative, morally acceptable treatments that do not use foetal

remains.

 

The new instructions from the Vatican provide strong support for parents,

doctors, public health officials and vaccination information organisations

who have long resisted the use of vaccines based on foetal remains. These

vaccines include such commonly-used shots as the MMR (measles, mumps and

rubella), Varicella (chicken pox), smallpox, rabies, Injected Polio and

Hepatitis A.

 

In a careful analysis of the moral issues involved in the use of vaccines

developed from foetal tissues, the Pontifical Academy for Life concludes

that pharmaceutical companies have a grave moral obligation to provide

vaccines that do not use foetal remains.

The same Vatican document states that parents, " have a duty to take recourse

to alternatives... They should use conscientious objection and oppose by all

means - in writing, through various associations, mass media, etc, the

vaccines which do not yet have morally acceptable alternatives. "

 

The Australian Vaccination Network, a national health lobby group, calls on

Minister Tony Abbott, whose views on the subject of abortion are well known,

to immediately recall all vaccines in Australia which use these products.

Anything less would be sheer hypocrisy for a government whose views on this

issue are so clear and well-publicised.

 

The AVN also calls on the government to publish a list of all new vaccines

which are now under consideration for inclusion in either the childhood or

adult vaccination schedules and to indicate which of these vaccines have

used foetal remains in either their development process or in the vaccines

themselves. This is the only way in which parents will be enabled to make

informed choices as to which vaccines, if any, they will choose to have

administered to their children or to themselves.

 

For further information or to obtain an interview, please contact:

Meryl Dorey, National President AVN

Phone 02 6687 1699

FAX 02 6687 2032

Mobile 0414 872 032