Vaccine Purchase Eases Moral Questions, Raises

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Interesting.. they actually admit in this article, that 12 out of

every 1 mill will die from this vaccine. makes you wonder what the

others will have to worry about.

Vaccine Purchase Eases Moral Questions, Raises

Others

By Mark Cowan, correspondent

SUMMARY: The Bush administration has agreed to

purchase enough smallpox vaccine to protect the United

States in case of a bio-terrorist attack. That means

tissue from an aborted child won't have to be used. But

not everybody is happy.

The administration has ordered 155 million additional

doses of smallpox vaccine that could be approved for

use in less than a year.

Dr. s, of the Christian Medical Association

said that is good news.

" The good news that all of us will have to look forward to

is that they are actually developing a vaccine that's not

based on using human cells taken from an aborted

fetus, " s said.

Some pro-life groups have been concerned that the

vaccine originally used was developed using the tissue

of a child aborted in 1966.

s said patients can tell their doctors they want the

vaccine made without using the fetal tissue cell line.

" The medical professional should honor that request, "

s said. " You might not be able to get your vaccine

at the place you've initially sought it, but it should be

available somewhere in your community, or your

physician or your healthcare personnel should be able to

get it for you. "

However Veronique De Rugy, with the Cato Institute,

said government plans will prevent any distribution until

there is an outbreak of smallpox.

" They are basically stockpiling these vaccines and not

making them available to the U.S. population, " De Rugy

said.

Recent polls have indicated 61 percent of the nation

would take a smallpox vaccine if it were offered. De

Rugy said that would provide community immunity.

s, however, said the vaccine could kill 12 out of

every one million people inoculated.

" If we vaccinated the whole country, it's pretty sure that

we would see about three hundred people die from that

program, " he said.

s said vaccination within a week of exposure to

smallpox can provide therapeutic effects.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: To read more about this

topic, see the Nov. 29 Family News in Focus story:

" Smallpox Vaccine Sparks Ethical Quandary " :

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0018688.html