UPDATE: 9-15-20 –
This is a first for any pharmaceutical company to abandon the use of an aborted fetal cell line in favor of a moral cell line. Please stand with the USCCB and NCHLA and show your appreciation to Sanofi Pasteur –
Original post June 4, 2020
(Clearwater, FL) Children of God for Life announced the news that pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur has discontinued the production of their Poliovax vaccine that is produced using aborted fetal cell lines, MRC-5.
In addition, Sanofi also switched the manufacturing of their Pentacel and Quadracel polio combination vaccines from using MRC-5 to the moral Vero (monkey) cells and will continue production of their separate polio vaccine, IPOL which also uses Vero cells. This means that for the first time in decades, Sanofi Pasteur will no longer have an aborted fetal version of polio vaccine.
In 2008 the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) had recommended Sanofi’s Pentacel vaccine as part of the schedule for children. An immediate protest was launched by the prolife organization, Children of God for Life, advising physicians and the public to use other moral options on the market instead.
“There was simply no reason for that vaccine to become part of the US recommended schedule,” stated Debi Vinnedge, the organization’s founder. “There was already a moral version made by GSK so it made zero sense that the CDC would want to recommend a vaccine that a large number of concerned pro-life physicians and their patients would refuse to use.”
The MRC-5 aborted fetal cell line was produced in 1966 from the lung tissue of a 14-week gestation male baby, aborted in the UK due to “psychiatric reasons” and has been used in several vaccines such as chickenpox, hepatitis-A, some rubella, rabies, shingles and smallpox.
This is the second time in the past six weeks that Sanofi Pasteur has given pro-life consumers cause for celebration. Earlier, Vinnedge announced that GSK and Sanofi had teamed together to produce a new Covid-19 vaccine which will use Sanofi’s insect-based platform as the culture medium.
Noting this unique opportunity to “right a wrong” while the Covid-19 vaccines are still in development, Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, TX issued a statement encouraging the public to follow his lead and speak out against the use of aborted fetal cells in vaccines.
Dr. Stacy Trasancos, Executive Director of the St. Philip Institute in Tyler likewise urged others to stand beside their bishop stating, “I don’t want to find myself a year from now being required to accept an immorally produced vaccine knowing that I did not speak up when I had the chance.”
“In troubling times like we are facing today with the Covid-19 shutdowns, we need to use this moment to let the industry know our preferences,” stated Vinnedge. “We are very grateful that Sanofi Pasteur has chosen the moral route and they will indeed be rewarded for those efforts when competing companies using aborted fetal cells will lose this market, guaranteed!”
Sanofi took a turn in the right direction in 2017 by purchasing Protein Sciences whose flu vaccines are produced using caterpillar cells. Vinnedge is encouraging the public to write Sanofi Pasteur to thank them for dropping their aborted fetal polio vaccines and for their Covid-19 in development.
A list of the Covid-19 vaccines in development that use aborted fetal cells and the morally produced options is on Children of God for Life’s website and is being updated as more information becomes available.
Meanwhile, Vinnedge and the Diocese of Tyler are asking the public to take a moment and thank Sanofi Pasteur for their efforts in providing morally produced polio and Covid-19 vaccines.
“Sanofi deserves to know our appreciation for listening to public concerns,” she added. Letters can be sent to:
Dr. John Shiver, Global Head of R&D
Sanofi Pasteur
Box 187 Discovery Drive
Swiftwater, PA 18370
Reference information is found in the first paragraph in this letter from the FDA approving the change:
https://www.fda.gov/media/138235/download and also in Sanofi’s package inserts under Section 11. Description
Pentacel: https://www.fda.gov/media/74385/download
Quadracel: https://www.fda.gov/media/91640/download
Thank you for this information. I am glad vaccines are moving away from the use of aborted fetuses. However, I cannot call them moral while they still destroy life. God made all life, including monkeys, insects, caterpillars, rodents, etc. I don’t only care about human life. I care about all life created by God. Plants that we eat do not have feelings. I can somewhat justify eating meat because God set it up that way in nature. But I cannot get onboard with otherwise destroying life made by God and I do not accept that this destruction is the only solution to getting vaccines for humans and our companion animals who need protection from disease. I do not accept that it is okay to use God’s creations, who live and breathe and feel with the same processes used by humans, as expendable. So while the vaccines that do not use aborted babies are somewhat more palatable, they are not moral because they destroy life which God has created and I believe that with our scientific abilities we could do better. Thank you for reading.
This is a right step in the right direction
Hopefully our federal gov’t will give morally developed vaccines a fair consideration.
Thank you for this information, Debi; and thank you for all that you and Children of God for Life are doing to make sure that these options are made available; and that consumers are made aware of them. God bless and take care.
Wasn’t the vero cell line being scrutinized for cancer viruses and so pulled after there seemed to be a spike in childhood cancers a few years ago — is my memory correct?
No. Vero cells are fine. You may be thinking of the rhesus monkey cells contaminated with SV40. Not the same as Vero cells which are used in several vaccines.
what a great email to see in my INBOX..
will shared this with many.
Thank You
Thank God, and all those striving to combat this evil. I am so relieved to read about this. I knew in conscience I could not accept a vaccine derived from foetal line tissue.
Sanofi Pasteur seems to understand that ethical vaccines produced means trust enriching society.
okay – thanks much, Debi
Yes, thank goodness this is happening for all concerned. Save lives.
Thanks for this info!
I’m trying to find my answer in Sanofi Pasteur’s Canada site but didn’t seem to see it.
Does this mean that Sanofi Pasteur Canada is also following the steps of its counterpart in the United States, discontiuing aborted fetal polio vaccine – using moral cell lines instead?
Thank you!
From Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Yes. They removed the MRC-5 cells from Pentacel – and that is the identical vaccine used in both Canada and the US – the moral Vero cells are used.
Answer to prayers and hard work ! No HUMAN HARVESTING in that polio vaccine. BUT monkey cells injected into health children ? What happens with that DNA in our children ? It just doesn’t seem right on a different level. Thanks for all your hard work. This is surely great news !!!
Barb – DNA does not cross species so in reality, human DNA is far more dangerous as it can insert into vaccine recipient’s cells. Monkey cell DNA is rejected as foreign – it cannot insert.
Thank the Lord that the practice of using aborted babies as spare parts has taken a backwards step.
Let’s hope that all researchers scientists and commercial interests stop such barbaric and inhuman practices. The Little Ones deserve time be laid to rest after enduring the horror of the abortion procedure in the first place. Imagine the distress of mother’s of aborted babies-wondering if it was their little one dismembered and ‘used ‘!!!!!!
Is it now ethical then to invest in sanofi stock? What is your moral opinion? This question is directed to the medical and religious experts of this organization, Children of God for Life. Please allow them to respond before commenting. Thank you in advance.
No. Sanofi is still using aborted fetal cells in other products, such as rabies vaccine Imovax. It is entirely possible they may stop using aborted fetal cells entirely in the near future as they begin using their new technology platform acquired through their purchase of Protein Sciences (using insect cells). So in short, the answer is no – not entirely ethical just yet, but could be in the near future.
Hi Debi,
Oxford is stepping their clinical trials with a new Covid vaccine using the same method of spike protein. I would like to know if they are ethic. I am guessing it is not, but I do not find the sources to support the cell line they are using in the production of the vaccine. Can you post something about it, please? They are coming to test in Brasil this weekend 26th June.
God Bless you
Thank you for your work
It is not morally produced. Uses HEK-293 aborted fetal cells. The information is on our website at https://cogforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/CovidCompareMoralImmoral.pdf Page 2 lists the Oxford University vaccine science documents. Section 2.3 shows the use of the cells. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5516308/