Is it true that Ivermectin and HCQ are abortion-tainted just like COVID jabs?
Summary
In recent weeks, we ve seen a list circulating among Catholics of medical products that are supposedly tainted by the evil of abortion, just like these so-called "abortion-tainted vaccines." This list includes various everyday medicines, and also includes ibuprofen and hydroxychloroquine. But is there a link between these products and those developed using aborted fetal cells? And if so, what are we to make of this?
Transcript
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As you all know, LifeSite has taken a very clear stance on the use of abortion-tainted
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vaccines, those that have used aborted fetal cell lines in their production.
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And that's been ongoing for years, and we've continued that more recently concerning the
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We've also been reporting on the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 and for complications
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But in recent weeks, we've seen a list circulating among Catholics, a list of medical products
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that are supposedly tainted by the evil of abortion, just like these COVID vaccines, specifically
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the fetal cell line HEK-293, which was derived from the abortion of a baby girl in 1973.
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This list includes various everyday medicines and also includes ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
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Stay tuned to find out on this episode of the John Henry Weston Show.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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So let's leave aside for now the moral debate over abortion-tainted vaccines.
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Let's leave aside myocarditis, spike proteins, mRNA, increased car crashes, blood clots, strokes,
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and all the other health issues associated with these rushed so-called vaccines and gene
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therapies that have actually led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of vaccine recipients.
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Let's leave aside the Great Reset, the vaccine passports, and all of this stuff.
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Let's just focus on this one claim that ivermectin and various everyday medicines make use of aborted
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fetal cells in the same way as these so-called COVID vaccines.
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It is obvious that the compilers of this list are trying to do just this, trying to say
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you accept these medicines, these everyday medicines, and yet you are making a fuss about
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the vaccines, the COVID vaccines, and therefore we are somehow hypocrites.
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Well, let's look at the evidence presented in this list for these claims.
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So first of all, we'll deal with ibuprofen. Perhaps the most shocking claim on the list is
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that HEK-293 cells were used in the production of ibuprofen, a widely used painkiller discovered
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in 1961. But is this true? Well, let's take a quick look at the study which is cited in this list.
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This 2018 study is called, quote, the effect of aspirin and ibuprofen on the proliferation of cervical cancer cells
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compared to non-cancerous cells, HEK-293, in cell culture medium, end quote.
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This is a study by an academic working in Hungary and Iran.
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This academic was researching the effects of aspirin and ibuprofen on two types of cells,
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We're not given a specific page number, so you and I, non-medical professionals,
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were just expected to believe that a 10-page academic study with an irrelevant title
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and seemingly behind a paywall is all about proving that ibuprofen was produced with aborted fetal cells.
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All of it? Well, I'm sorry, but this makes no sense.
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Without a proper quote, a proper page reference, or something more specific,
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I see no reason to think anything other than this study is about treatments for cervical cancer,
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And even if it was about testing ibuprofen with fetal cells,
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perhaps because some independent scientists somewhere were speculating on a link between it and cancer,
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how does this compare to preparatory tests necessary to bring a drug to market?
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Anyway, remember that ibuprofen was discovered in 1961.
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How could it have been developed using fetal cells from an abortion in 1973?
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Or be tainted by such independent research in 2018?
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So our position of conscience is based on whether the drugs in question were developed using cells derived from abortions.
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It is not based on whether random teams of scientists decades later decide
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that they want to do immoral tests using these medications.
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In the case of development or preparatory tests,
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the medicine might not exist without the immoral use of these cells,
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But if other scientists independently do this sort of research years later,
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This is a gross misunderstanding of our position,
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have used HEK-293 cells from an abortion in 1973?