the original rubella vaccine was made using human fetal embryo fibroblast cells obtained from two elective abortions in the 1960s.
The rubella vaccine is one of many vaccines that use the cell lines from those aborted fetuses, meaning they descend from the original fetal cells, but are not taken directly from new fetal tissue.
So it was originally developed using aborted fetal cells, but we just culture new cells from those original ones, not routinely turning new aborted fetuses into vaccines.
I could see the logical jump an anti-abortionist would make here. We wouldn’t have the tech without the aborted fetuses, so they have a hard-line stance against the tech. But it is a classic trolly-problem with their personal convictions on one side, and hundreds of lives (and growing) on the other.
Is this even true? Are modern measles vaccines reliant on substances from an abortion?
No
So it was originally developed using aborted fetal cells, but we just culture new cells from those original ones, not routinely turning new aborted fetuses into vaccines.
I could see the logical jump an anti-abortionist would make here. We wouldn’t have the tech without the aborted fetuses, so they have a hard-line stance against the tech. But it is a classic trolly-problem with their personal convictions on one side, and hundreds of lives (and growing) on the other.