Fetal cell lines

Media Release 26 February 2022

Right to Life welcomes the brilliant judgement of Justice Francis Cooke in the High Court on the lawfulness of the vaccine mandate imposed by the government on members of the Police force and the Defence force.

The community is indebted to these courageous citizens who brought this important conscience issue to the High Court.

The judgement is a victory for the supremacy of the conscience of the individual over the dictates of a controlling state. It upholds the human right of the appellants to exercise their conscience in refusing the demand of the government to subject their bodies to a medical procedure, specifically, the experimental Pfizer gene therapy.

Right to Life believes that this judgement gives support and encouragement to the thousands of hard working doctors, nurses, health care workers, teachers and other New Zealanders who have been cruelly deprived of their profession and work because they refused the demand of the government to accept the Pfizer vaccine.

Never before in the history of New Zealand has the right to work been subject to our vaccination status.

Justice Cooke accepted the appellants’ claim that the government mandate violated their human rights guaranteed by the NZ Bill of Rights Act 1990, the right to refuse a medical treatment and the right to manifest religious beliefs.

The appellants recognised and argued that the Pfizer “vaccine’ had been tested with the cell line HEK 293 which was unethically produced from a baby killed in a late term abortion performed by caesarean section. The baby, while still alive and without an anaesthetic, had its kidney painfully removed to be used to produce a cell line. This was an appalling violation of the right to life of the child and a crime against humanity.

Right to Life requests that the government accepts the just judgement of Justice Cooke and now revoke vaccination mandates and restore employment to the thousands of New Zealanders deprived of their work through the punitive and damaging mandates.

The government knew, when it purchased the Pfizer and other vaccines, that they had been produced or tested with cell lines from aborted babies. Right to Life again requests that the government purchase only vaccines that have been ethically produced and tested without the use of cell lines derived from babies killed in abortions.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Media Release May 2nd 2020

The government has a moral obligation to refuse to fund research or purchase morally contentious vaccines to fight Coronavirus and other threats to life and health, that have been derived from cell lines of children who have been killed in abortion.

It is abhorrent that vaccines developed from aborted cell lines contain the DNA of the children who were aborted.

Right to Life is writing to the Minister of Health requesting that the government purchase only ethically produced vaccines to combat the coronavirus.

The government has a duty to offer to the community vaccines that will not violate the conscience of those who are opposed to the killing of the innocent. We should not have to accept vaccines from aborted cell lines when other more morally acceptable alternatives exist.

The Congregation for the Faith in Rome issued an instruction, Dignitas Personae in 2008. The dignity of a person must be recognized in every human being from conception to natural death. This fundamental principle expresses a great “yes” to human life and must be at the centre of ethical reflection on biomedical research, which has an ever greater importance in today’s world.

Vaccines are developed on the cultures of human tissue of babies killed before birth, precisely because they are human. It would be hypocritical of the government to purchase these vaccines when it has just recently rushed the anti-life Abortion Legislation Act through parliament on the pretext that the unborn child is not a human being. Is the government now prepared to concede that the unborn child is a human being?

There are two main aborted cell lines developed in 1964 and 1970 from healthy aborted children killed in the second trimester that are used to produce vaccines. There were hundreds of unborn babies killed before these cell lines were perfected. New cell lines continue to be developed from the human remains of babies killed before birth.

French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur is hoping to have a morally acceptable vaccine ready for human testing later this year. Two American companies, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna expect to commence human testing, the former in July and the latter in September 2020. Both of these companies are using unethical aborted cell lines. The government should not purchase unethically produced vaccines from these companies.

Governments should seek to fund research on, and purchase, morally uncontentious vaccines, both to reward morally uncontentious research and to provide more citizens with vaccines they can in conscience accept. Internationally, there are many vaccines that have been developed using aborted baby cell lines. it is very much to be hoped that morally un-contentious vaccines will be made widely available to all peoples of the world, both to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and to combat other threats to life and health.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life