What @Right_to_Life is trying to do is no different from what antivaxers do when they try to portray vaccines as "contaminated" with dangerous chemicals like formaldehyde, mercury, or as having been grown in animal cells. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/08/10/contamination-requiring-ritual-purification-superstitious-concepts-at-the-heart-of-antivaccine-beliefs/ …
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It's a truly annoying and dumb argument being used by
@Right_to_Life, one I've unfortunately had to discuss far too many times over the years, e.g.: 3/ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/07/27/when-the-antiabortion-movement-meets-the-antivaccine-movement/ …1 reply 2 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
Michigan Senate Bill 1055, being promoted by
@Right_to_Life,@pjcolbeck,@VoteTonya,@MikeKowall (who really looks like Stanislaw Burzynski), @JudyforMichigan,@joehune, and Mike Shirkey flows from a tale premise and is designed to lower vaccine rates. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/06/12/senate-bill-1055-antivaccine-fear-mongering/ …2 replies 1 retweet 4 likesShow this thread -
Indeed,
@Right_to_Life's Senate Bill 1055 flows against medical evidence. Not only are the vaccines targeted not dangerous. The cells used to grow the vaccines' virus are derived from fetuses aborted >50 years ago. No fetal "tissue" is used. 5/1 reply 3 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
Also, although
@Right_to_Life doesn't directly say it, the implication behind its bill is that there is something harmful about cells made using the WI-38 or MRC-5 cell lines because of their derivation from fetuses aborted in the 1960s. There isn't. Quite the contrary. 6/1 reply 2 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
Indeed, vaccines made from virus stock grown in WI-38 and MRC-5 cells have contributed to the prevention of billions of cases of disease and many millions of deaths. 7/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/06/12/senate-bill-1055-antivaccine-fear-mongering/ …
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Moreover, even the Catholic Church, second to no religion when it comes to being antiabortion, has stated that it is morally acceptable to use the vaccines manufactured using these cell lines. 8/ http://www.immunize.org/talking-about-vaccines/vaticandocument.htm …
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I always find it rather odd how "pro-life" groups like
@Right_to_Life claim to be pro-life, but then do things that show unequivocally that they are far more antiabortion than pro-life. Senate Bill 1055 is one of the things. 9/1 reply 1 retweet 5 likesShow this thread -
Basically,
@Right_to_Life,@pjcolbeck,@VoteTonya,@MikeKowall, @JudyforMichigan,@joehune, and Mike Shirkey care more about fetuses aborted >50 years ago than they do about preventing disease and saving children's lives NOW. 10/1 reply 2 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
Make no mistake. This "informed consent" about vaccines that use these cell lines is in reality misinformed consent designed to frighten parents into not vaccinating.
@Right_to_Life is in reality promoting a pro-disease, pro-death policy with respect to vaccines. 11/1 reply 2 retweets 10 likesShow this thread
I've often wondered why "pro-life" activists fall for this antivaccine ploy over and over and over. Antivaxers generally don't give a rodent's posterior about abortion. The "fetal tissue" gambit is to them just another tool to portray vaccines as "contaminated" or "dirty." 12/
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Whatever the reasons, groups like
@Right_to_Life need to stop letting themselves be played by antivaxers in their unending struggle to portray vaccines as evil and scare parents into not vaccinating. 13/1 reply 1 retweet 4 likesShow this thread -
As long as groups like
@Right_to_Life promote bogus "informed consent" bills like SB 1055 and trumpet fear mongering about "fetal parts" or "fetal cells" in vaccines, I call BS on their claims to be "pro-life." They care far more for unborn life than live children. 14/140 replies 5 retweets 17 likesShow this thread
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