Vaccines from aborted fetal tissue - Canadian Physicians for Life

Vaccines

	Pediacel Fact Sheet (from LifeCanada, updated February 2008)

	Responses from Health Officials to CPL's request for alternative to ethically controversial childhood vaccine
	On November 22, 2006, Canadian Physicians for Life sent letters to all provincial and federal health ministers (see press release dated December 5, 2006)

	Vaccines derived from aborted fetal tissue: history and ethical reflections
	Contains the following two articles, posted with permission from the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly: "A Brief History of Human Diploid Cell Strains" by Rene Leiva, MD "Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Aborted Human Fetuses" by Pontifical Academy for Life.

	Canadian Physicians for Life applauds Alberta's decision to provide alternative to ethically controversial childhood vaccine
	Media release issued January 12, 2007

	Canadian Physicians for Life asks Provincial and Federal Health Ministers to provide alternative to ethically controversial childhood vaccine
	Media release issued December 5, 2006

Vaccine information kit (from LifeCanada: containes Q&A fact sheets, and sample letters to health officials)

Many parents have moral concerns about immunizing their children with viral vaccines derived from aborted fetal tissue. Parents are torn – they see immunization as a form of cooperation with the immoral act of abortion yet they want to protect their children from developing serious illnesses. LifeCanada has provided an information kit to help parents identify and promote ethical alternatives so that they can, in good conscience, provide this protection for their children.

	List of vaccines derived from aborted fetal tissue
	Source: Drug Product Database (DPD) and respective companies' websites