Vaccines use aborted fetal cell lines? (video)

VERIFIED: Aborted fetal cell lines were used to produce Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine

(KSDK News, March 2, 2021) ST. LOUIS — Many 5 On Your Side viewers have asked the Verify Team about fetal cell lines used in COVID-19 vaccines.

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With the recent fast track  approval (or Emergency Use Authorization, which is experimental not actual FDA approval) of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine, there's a new twist to how those aborted fetal cells contributed to the latest tool in the fight against the pandemic.

Sources include two experts from Johns Hopkins University -- Dr. Amesh Adalja from the School of Public Health and Dr. William Moss, executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center.

The Verify Team also interviewed Dr. Alex Lacasse, an infectious disease physician at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital.

Fetal cell lines have a long history. For the lines involved in the COVID-19 vaccines, they started with two aborted fetuses in 1973 and 1985. A researcher in the Netherlands obtained the cells, Moss tells the Verify Team. Today, researchers are unsure of the circumstances surrounding the abortions.

Since then, the original fetal cells have multiplied millions of times, creating fetal cell lines.

"Although their origin was in an aborted fetus, they're really just this independent cell that's been grown in a laboratory for decades," said Moss.

Pfizer and Moderna, too

Scientists use fetal cell lines because they replicate rapidly outside the human body. For the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, the cell lines were used because Big Pharma says using them allowed researchers to test the mRNA-based vaccines to try to disprove that they would work.

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