How Is The Vaccine Cultured?

[Ringlet]

A dear friend of mine, who is very strongly anti-abortion, has stated that he will not be taking the vaccine because the culture for the vaccine is produced in aborted human fetus cells, specifically kidney cells.

Does anyone know if this is correct, or can anyone offer any meaningful comment on this claim?

I totally respect my friend's decision but I want to ensure that his decision is based on sound facts.

[barry1010]

""None of this is made in mammalian cell lines," he said."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/covid-19-pfizer-vaccine-ingredients-b1774537.html

[bobbinwales]

useful link here. It includes link to full fact org
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/12/02/aborted-foetus-cells-microchips-and-thalidomide-vaccine-myths-debunked/

MYTH: The Oxford vaccine contains parts of aborted foetus

FACT: A Facebook user falsely claimed that the vaccine uses MRC-5 cell lines which were “originally developed from research deriving lung tissue of a 14-week-old aborted Caucasian male foetus”.

AstraZeneca has confirmed its vaccine was not developed using MRC-5 cell lines but does use a different cell strain taken from a female foetus aborted in the 1970s.

The cells are used to propagate the virus for the vaccine but these cells do not make it into the final jab.


MRC-5 cells are also not the same cells from an aborted foetus. They are cell lines that have been grown in a laboratory from a primary cell culture originally taken from a foetus.

[woofgang]

the answer seems to be yes and no https://factcheckni.org/articles/covid-19-vaccines-and-aborted-fetuses/

[Ringlet]

Thank you for your very informative answers. I have forwarded the information to my friend. I also found an interesting article that claims that there are 78 different types of vaccine under development, some of which use aborted cells, and some of which do not. I am hoping my ethically aware friend will agree to trust those who administer the vaccine to give him the version that has not been cultured using human cells.

[Ringlet]

https://factcheckni.org/articles/covid-19-vaccines-and-aborted-fetuses/
This is the link to the above article. Thank you again.

[237SJ]

I would think it's not cultured in anything because none of the actual virus is used.

[Ringlet]

Thanks Woofgang, we both found the same article. I only noticed your post after I had posted the link myself. Thank you for your reply.

[woofgang]

Ringlet in the UK there won't be a choice.

[vulcan42]

Strange that somebody who is strongly anti abortion, an early death, doesn't want to take a vaccine that will help other people avoid an early death.

[Buenchico]

The first vaccine used in the UK, the Pfizer-BioNTech one, is an mRNA vaccine which is entirely synthetic, as is the Moderna vaccine (which the UK currently has on order).

The Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine, which was used for the first time in the UK this week, is not manufactured using foetal cells either. However it was developed using cells replicated from a single foetus which was legally aborted in the Netherlands in 1973.

https://factcheckni.org/articles/covid-19-vaccines-and-aborted-fetuses/

[barry1010]

Even my eco-warrior vegan daughter will have the vaccine despite it being tested on animals.