Frequently Asked Questions

(Updated 02.05.2025)

What about Safety and Adjuvents?

Children of God for Life is NOT an anti-vaccine group, we are a pro-parental choice and have NEVER wavered from our mission to uphold conscinece rights of families who wish to abstain from aborted fetal cell line vaccines & medicines. We are and have always been, since our founding over 20 years ago, dedicated to our PRO LIFE mission to put an END to the EXPLOITATION of preborn children in use of biological products and scientific discovery.

Several Moral theologians have declared it “morally licit” to benefit from the exploitation of the remains of aborted children in biomedical research and manufacturing, conceding ground to the abortion industry. Children of God for Life took up the lead to mobilize consciences in favour of life, as instructed in Dignitas Personae (35), and demand ethical alternatives.

Children of God for Life WILL remain Loyal to the Mission set forth by the Vatican in ending the exploitation of the unborn!

“Therefore, doctors and fathers of families have a duty to take recourse to alternative vaccines (if they exist), putting pressure on the political authorities and health systems so that other vaccines without moral problems become available. They should take recourse, if necessary, to the use of conscientious objection with regard to the use of vaccines produced by means of cell lines of aborted human foetal origin.” 

Pontifical Academy of Life, July 2005

Is there a Master List of Medications that are known to be tainted?

We update our charts as we get new information regarding vaccines, medicines or consumer products which we have researched.

There are over 21,000 prescription medicines licensed and approved for use in the U.S. and a similar number of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. To research and compile a list of all of those products that have used or been tested with fetal cell lines would be a lifetime worth of work. Further, such a list would be unmaintainable and never fully correct because there are always new pharmaceuticals, and it would depend on the researchers and manufacturers revealing details about fetal tissue and fetal cell line use.

If you have a question or concern about a new medication you are presecribed and its possible connection to utilizing aborted fetal cell lines, please contact us and we can assist.  The research does take some time so please be patient with us.

Abortion Tainted Vaccines
COVID Vaccines & Treatments
And All fetal product running list

ALL THREE CHARTS are free to download and free to reproduce.

 

Information on Flu Shots for the 2024 – 2025 Season

We have posted updated information on the influenza shots for the 2024 – 2025 season. Nothing has changed materially from last year, except for the viral formulation recommended by the CDC. Culturing media does NOT include any aborted fetal cell lines – the same media is used again this year. Combination shots that include SARS-CoV-2 and influenza, and mRNA influenza shots have not yet been approved. Approvals are not likely for this flu season. Please follow this link for more information.

What about the claim (originating with Fr. Matthew Schneider) that aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, Tums, Pepto Bismol, etc. use aborted fetal cell lines?

With regard to the now-common claim being lifted off the internet by companies imposing vaccine mandates, know that aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, Tums, Pepto Bismol and almost all the medicines listed were not developed with aborted fetal cells. Most of them were developed years (or decades) before aborted fetal cell lines were available to researchers. Please see this post on our website, Let’s Get A Few Things Cleared Up: Testing, Cell Lines and Fetal Tissue. Also see this reference summary of fourteen medicines we researched independently. All fourteen were incorrectly represented by Fr. Matthew Schneider’s article.

What about Corbevax, Covaxin, and Novavax?

See our full post on these three vaccines being produced in other countries and possibly candidates for the U.S. market. In summary, initial indications were that Corbevax was ethically researched, developed and tested, without connection to abortion. The research team did not DIRECTLY use aborted fetal cell lines in their development and testing processes; however, a thorough review of the literature revealed the use of two biologics that are produced in aborted fetal cell lines. Novavax claims that their product did not make use of aborted fetal cell lines, not in any way in the development and/or testing of their vaccine candidate. However, their own scientific literature clearly describes an assessment performed by the Novavax development team that describes the use of HEK-293 cell lines. We have looked at Covaxin very closely and found no direct or indirect association with abortion, but we have reason to believe that the FDA will not approve this any time soon, if ever; see the full post.

Are ethical COVID-19 vaccines coming?

We have closely followed the news, hoping for information on clinical trials results and updated estimates on when that day might come. In that time, we’ve seen a number of vaccine candidates drop off the list of the morally uncompromised. Sanofi Pasteur/GSK, Medicago and Novavax are notable examples of what we hoped would be moral options authorized for use by the FDA. There are two remaining in trials that have a chance of near-term authorization, unfortunately we believe that an ethical option may not be available for years. The choice may soon come down to being pushed or pushing back. See this short post, “Get Ready, Ethical COVID-19 Vaccines are Probably Not Coming” for more details.

Are monoclonal antibodies abortion-tainted drugs?

Some are and some are not. (See our link here.) A monoclonal antibody is an antibody (a protein) that is produced by a single clone of cells and has identical antibody molecules on the protein. The one of greatest interest these days is REGEN-COV from Regeneron. It is a combination to two monoclonal antibodies, casirivimab (REGN10933) and imdevimab (REGN10987). It was developed and tested with the HEK-293T aborted fetal cell lines according to Regeneron’s publication in Cell journal. Another preprint paper in collaboration with Regeneron describes the use of Freestyle 293 cells in the production of REGN10933 and REGN10987, as does this paper in Science journal. We have not been able to verify whether this same production process is used in manufacturing.

Other monoclonal antibodies of recent interest are (see links for scientific information):

  • Sotrovimab – Biologics code is VIR-7831. Lenti X-293T cells are used in production; see lines 339 and 415. These cells are a subclone of HEK 293. A subclone is a cell that has been genetically modified from a previous instance. This is often done to alter (enhance or attenuate) a cell’s expression characteristics. In this case, the ‘parent’ HEK-293 cell is modified by a DNA segment to enhance the expression of viral proteins and increase the ease of transfection (infection).
  • Casirivimab – Uses ACE2-293, HEK-293T, Freestyle 293 cell lines; see above information for REGEN-COV.
  • Imdevimab – Uses ACE2-293, HEK-293T, Freestyle 293 cell lines; see above information for REGEN-COV.
  • Bamlanivimab – Biologics code is LY-Cov555. This paper describes the use of HD 293F cells in production of the antibody. The Supplemental Materials of this pre-print paper describe the use of the same cells in production and testing.
  • Tocilizumab – Also called RoActemra. Produced in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells; see Product Review. The Assessment Report also does not describe the use of any aborted fetal cell lines.
  • Bebtelovimab – Biologics code is LY-CoV1404. This recently authorized monoclonal antibody relied on a number of adaptations of the HEK-293 cell line throughout the development process. Expi293, HEK-293T, 293T- ACE2 and 293 flpin-TMPRSS2-ACE2 cell lines were used, along with insect cell lines, CHO (Chinese Hamster Ovary) and several adaptations of Vero-6 non-human primate cells. This publication in ScienceDirect details the use of the various cell lines.
  • Dupilumab (Dupixent) – This monoclonal antibody was developed and tested using CHO (Chinese Hamster Ovary) cell lines.  The same medium is used for production purposes.  Please refer to the EMA reference documents for more details.

    Can they use miscarried babies for research instead of aborted children?

    The bodies of miscarried children can sometimes be used with consent of the mother. However, for research that relies on fresh tissues, miscarriages cannot be used because 1) they are unpredictable, and 2) the baby leaves the mother’s body too long after the baby dies to collect useable tissues. Scientists need “fresh” tissue. With abortion, scientists can plan tissue harvesting right after the child is killed. Additionally, there is good reason to think that scientists also harvest organs while the baby is still alive. Here are some articles for more information.