Note that the only licensed chickenpox vaccine is manufactured in MRC-5 cells, which were harvested from the abortion of a 14-week old boy fetus. There are ethical alternatives for many of the other unethical vaccines, but not for chickenpox. Considering that chickenpox usually causes a very mild disease, there is simply no justification for forcing parents to take part in the murder of an unborn child in clear violation of their consciences and sincerely-held religious beliefs to prevent it.
Any good Catholics reading this will want to review the vatican's position on the subject at http://www.cogforlife.org/vaticanresponse.pdf
Most notably in regards to chickenpox which causes only mild disease in most cases, and is definitely NOT a significant risk, they say:
QUOTE (Vatican letter)
As regards the diseases against which there are no alternative vaccines which are available and ethically acceptable, it is right to abstain from using these vaccines if it can be done without causing children, and indirectly the population as a whole, to undergo significant risks to their health.
Their summary is also worth posting:
QUOTE (Vatican letter)
To summarize, it must be confirmed that:
-there is a grave responsibility to use alternative vaccines and to make a conscientious objection with regard to those which have moral problems;
- as regards the vaccines without an alternative, the need to contest so that others may be prepared must be reaffirmed, as should be the lawfulness of using the former in the meantime insomuch as is necessary in order to avoid a serious risk not only for one's own children but also, and perhaps more specifically, for the health conditions of the population as a whole - especially for pregnant women;
- the lawfulness of the use of these vaccines should not be misinterpreted as a declaration of the lawfulness of their production, marketing and use, but is to be understood as being a passive material cooperation and, in its mildest and remotest sense, also active, morally justified as an extrema ratio due to the necessity to provide for the good of one's children and of the people who come in contact with the children (pregnant women);
- such cooperation occurs in a context of moral coercion of the conscience of parents, who are forced to choose to act against their conscience or otherwise, to put the health of their children and of the population as a whole at risk. This is an unjust alternative choice, which must be eliminated as soon as possible.
-there is a grave responsibility to use alternative vaccines and to make a conscientious objection with regard to those which have moral problems;
- as regards the vaccines without an alternative, the need to contest so that others may be prepared must be reaffirmed, as should be the lawfulness of using the former in the meantime insomuch as is necessary in order to avoid a serious risk not only for one's own children but also, and perhaps more specifically, for the health conditions of the population as a whole - especially for pregnant women;
- the lawfulness of the use of these vaccines should not be misinterpreted as a declaration of the lawfulness of their production, marketing and use, but is to be understood as being a passive material cooperation and, in its mildest and remotest sense, also active, morally justified as an extrema ratio due to the necessity to provide for the good of one's children and of the people who come in contact with the children (pregnant women);
- such cooperation occurs in a context of moral coercion of the conscience of parents, who are forced to choose to act against their conscience or otherwise, to put the health of their children and of the population as a whole at risk. This is an unjust alternative choice, which must be eliminated as soon as possible.
Regardless of religious affiliation, any pro-life Marylander will want to fight this violation of their conscience to the fullest extent of the law.
Also note that the chickenpox vaccine isn't working. http://www.cogforlife.org/chickenpoxoutbreak.htm Outbreaks among vaccinated children of what appears to be a new strain of the virus tells me that the vaccine has simply caused the selection of a new strain. Of course the older you are when first infected, the greater the risk of serious sequelae, so the vaccine could simply be delaying inection and actually creating a gre3ater danger than the one it is atempting to eliminate. Makes me think we were better off in the good old days - when everyone got a mild case of itchy spots when they were a young child, and when we got better it conferred lifetime immunity.
