The Incarnation’s Increasingly Ignored Gifts to Transform Our Mortal Lives – Part 1 of 5: The Divine Law Fulfilled
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The COVID vaccine mandates and the right to religious exemption required millions of us to question whether or not science could have pushed COVID vaccines to market at warp speed if not for abortions. Some of us found religious objections not only because babies died, but also because of how they died.
We research and discern this for fear of being fired or for fear of permanent harm by experimental vaccines. What would have driven us to research and discern this decades ago, before it all became new-normal? Could we have known years ago the likelihood that vaccines depended on cruel experimentation on babies? If so, why did we miss it?
The Medical Library Research Part Three: Killing babies
This next phase took three more hourly check-ins before we finally agreed we had discovered enough.
“My turn to go first,” Maureen said. “What I’ve found out is even more unsettling. Here’s another early 50s paper, from the Journal of Immunology. This one’s about polio research too. It built on that paper you dug up about the non-macerated babies. It also talked about using tissue cells for virus reactions. They used babies’ skin, muscles, intestines, and brains. They detailed how they removed the fetuses from the amniotic sac, placed them on a towel, and kept them at five degrees Celsius one-to-three hours after the hysterotomy, quote, ‘until dissected,’ unquote.”
“Dissected? Plotkin said that too. Like we did to frogs in high school biology. And what is ‘hysterotomy’?”
“A C-section. Yes, dissected. After one-to-three hours in the cold. Five degrees Celsius is about forty degrees: a fridge. Then he said it worked. They even grew virus in specimens they got from a fetus that’d been born for twenty-four hours.”18
She sighed, and continued. “These babies spent their only hours outside the womb, sometimes an entire day, in a refrigerator. In other words, they kept the babies alive until they were cut open and killed. And no anesthesia. They mostly did that to transport them to a lab to extract the cells, like you said happened in Toronto. And remember, to get useful cells, the organs, the kidneys, whatever, must be functioning, in a living person. In this article from a couple years ago in the Linacre Quarterly, this professor here verified that the baby must be living to be useful. And he discussed what ‘living’ means. By ‘living,’ he meant breathing and growing.”19
“Stunning.”
“I also found a review of a book in a medical ethics journal. The reviewer said the baby is, quote, ‘as alive and aware a state as possible when being opened.’20 Unquote. Then I found that very book, The Foetus as Transplant Donor, written just a few years ago, in 1987. The author, who’s against this type of experimentation, talked about the induced abortion technique and its effectiveness for getting live babies’ tissue. He confirms what we’ve found out today: that fetuses still are, and will be, too valuable for vaccine production.”
She paged through the book to a dog-ear. “Here, he also mentions how researchers try to keep the baby cold, even at four degrees Celsius, to make sure they stay alive longer.”21
“Four degrees. You mean they put them in a fridge?”
“No. Four degrees inside their bodies. He referenced this paper from 1961 that explained why this worked for them.” She shuffled papers and books around. “Here’s that paper, from the Journal of Endocrinology. They studied twenty-three fetuses living outside the womb. They determined success by measuring brain waves at different temperatures and how long they survived. They found that babies would survive outside only about three hours at normal body temperature. But at refrigerator body temperature, they could survive longer. And girl babies survived even longer than boys. When they reduce the babies’ body temperature to four degrees Celsius, which is about forty degrees Fahrenheit, for anywhere from a half-hour to six hours, then warm them back up, they can survive at that warmed-up state for a couple extra hours.”22
“They set their body temperature to fridge temperature,” I said. “I’m surprised they don’t die from hypothermia.”
“That 1987 book stated that these babies can withstand the cold differently than more mature infants.”
“That relates to what I’ve been reading for the last hour. I started by asking: Will these babies feel such extreme pain? My biology student friend helped me with this one. He said that this very month, a week or so ago, a London newspaper reported how some UK doctors and researchers proved that babies have developed the physiological structures to feel pain by ten weeks after conception. I actually got someone from a London Parliamentary pro-life group to attach the summary paper to an email and send it to me.”
“You got an email, here in the library?”
“Yep. At the computer terminal. It’s titled ‘Fetal Sentience.’ I had just enough coins to print it out. The summary lines are right here at the beginning. By the tenth week after conception, all the functions and structures are there.”23
“And your sister was about twenty weeks.”
“Yes.”
Maureen sighed again. “It’s sadistic. Those poor babies are souls. My grandma used to say that babies who aren’t baptized go to Limbo.”
“Whatever that is, it must be better than their life on earth was.”
“According to my grandma, it’s heaven, but without the Beatific Vision. But she said that Church scholars have always disagreed on that. We simply need to pray for them.”
“They need something,” I said. “Nothing we’ve found denies that this all happens.”
“Right. It’s not 100% proof, but it’s evidence.”
“It seems like the tip of the iceberg. Why do so few people know about this? We’ve only had high school biology classes, but we can figure it out.”
“Yeah, but I feel we had help.” She pointed up.
We stared at the books and journals and photocopies strung out around our tables. We both sighed at the same time.
“Thanks for all this, Maureen. But I’m not sure what we’ll do with this.”
“Maybe I can ask Father Frank to preach about it. Or maybe he could ask the bishop or someone powerful in the Church to ask drug manufacturers to disclose how they produce each and every med.”
“And how they test them. The biology student said that they’re advancing to where they can use cells to test meds and vaccines. They prefer to use grown humans. But of course, that’s risky and expensive. And apparently using other animals is less accurate. So they’d like to test vaccines’ effects on cells pulled from babies’ organs.”
“So it will happen even more often. And by the way, I also stumbled on a place to order the cells. It was listed in some resource book for people studying aging. If you call their 800-number in New Jersey, you can buy the cell lines we’ve been reading about. Quote, ‘Available are human fibroblasts from female (IMR-90) and male (IMR-91 and MRC-5) fetal lung tissues and WI-38 female diploid lung cells.’24 Unquote.”
“How did we let this happen in the first place?”
“We all did, by ignoring it,” Maureen said. “Because it upsets our fragile beliefs.” She waved her arm over the tables. “This is all saying that so many of the medicines that heal so many actually come from death.”
I shook my head. “It’s difficult to grasp. It’s like we hypnotized ourselves to believe that it never happened, or that it happened too long ago, or that the babies were not alive, or that they were miscarriages.”
“Right. They couldn’t possibly be dead, or miscarriages.”
I looked down at my pad, and jotted down a few final notes.
“What are you writing?”
“I’d made some notes to summarize all this.” I cleared my throat.
“Okay, here goes. Many medicines and vaccines are developed using cells that, using the introduction of mutations, subdivide from the original cells of live, premature babies. To get any at all, they experiment on dozens of ten-to-thirty-weeks-from-conception babies; who are unbaptized souls with names before God; who their mothers plan in advance to reject; who are not miscarriages; who doctors pull from their mothers’ wombs alive and whole; who doctors place in a refrigerator or lower their body temperature to forty degrees, for one-to-twenty-four hours, so they stay alive for dissection; and who lab researchers cut into with a scalpel while they’re alive, without anesthesia, so they can find their tiny, fully functioning organs and extract their living cells.”25,26
“And it doesn’t matter if this happened twenty-five years ago, or yesterday,” Maureen said. “It happened. They were living babies. Time passing doesn’t prevent something from being evil. Can you imagine knowingly getting a vaccine that was produced using the tissue of one of Mengele’s concentration camp victims, or tested on the tissue of slaves from a plantation in the Deep South, or tested on cells from Aztec children whose hearts were ripped out?”
“No.” I rubbed my head. “Whoa. Disturbing thought here: Are we like the Aztecs?”
Maureen stretched out to touch my arm. “Part of me wishes we didn’t ask these questions.”
"True. I didn’t want to know that people can probably buy her cells.”
“Oh. Sorry about that.”
“It’s okay. But I did want to know that my sister didn’t die in vain, that she helped many people, and that I wasn’t the only one benefitting from her dying. Maybe all that’s true. But no one ever asked her to choose. They stole her cells from her. Then killed her. And the end does not justify the means. Even if one of those ends was... me. We all ignored the means.”
“That’s because all we initially see are the ends,” she said. “We’ve all focused too much on seeing these ends: our health and comfort. They’re the easiest to see, because they’re the results – easy to believe in. But it’s the easy, wide gates that lead us to error and sin, and even heresy and false religions.”
“How could we have avoided it? Those results are an extremely good, easy gate for a lot of us.”
“Yeah, I’ve based so many choices and mistakes on the wide gates my whole life,” she said. “But that’s the lesson. We need to look for help from above. The help is not only in bits of knowledge falling into our laps, from people explaining things, or in evidence from research papers.”
“Or in God-given coincidences, like us getting together.”
“That’s so sweet. Anyway, the help is also in the Bible and a couple thousand years of saints’ writings. Here’s one more thing I found today. I forget which medical ethics journal I copied it from. The writer quoted a Catechism, the one after the Council of Trent in the 1500s. Quote: ‘The infidel… places his principal hope of deliverance in the remedies provided by nature, or prepared by man. He makes no scruple of using medicine no matter by whom prepared, no matter if accompanied by charms, spells or other diabolical arts, provided he can promise himself some hope of recovery. Not so the Christian.… The Sacred Scriptures condemn the conduct of those who, confiding in the power of medicine, seek no assistance from God. Nay more, those who regulate their lives by the laws of God, abstain from the use of all medicines which are not evidently intended by God to be medicinal; and, were there even a certain hope of recovery by using any other, they abstain from them as so many charms and diabolical artifice.’27 Unquote.”
“So all those theories I hold – about the true and authentic, the good and the beautiful – should also be grounded in what God’s revealed.”
“Yes,” Maureen said. “And that’s exactly what we forget in developing medicines.”
“It’s as if God reveals Truth out of an act of love for us.”
“But it helps only if we choose to use it, especially for new challenges.” She stared out the window. “And in hard times.”
“I know what you’re thinking. The next few months will challenge us in ways we can’t even imagine.”
“Yes.”
In this moment, I grasped that knowing God entails accepting His love, in the form of what He revealed to us in words, and in what we learn through imitation, not only of His creating, but also of His Son’s authentic life.
We stacked up the books, placed them on a little cart for a student to reshelve, slid our papers into folders, and left.
After eating chicken and plantains in Coconut Grove, we drove back north to my apartment.
This research into what happened to my sister, the Catholic formation, including my first Confession, and the attempts to bury Magic Theater, constituted the start of the new year. Above all, Maureen and I continued to experience and learn each other, all preparing for the decades ahead, in these first seven weeks of the year.
But the next seven weeks loomed.
References
18. Thomas H. Weller, John F. Enders, Frederick C. Robbins, and Marguerite B. Stoddard, “Studies on the Cultivation of Poliomyelitis Viruses in Tissue Culture,” Journal of Immunology, p. 649, June 30, 1952
19. Keith A. Crutcher, “Fetal Tissue Research: The Cutting Edge?,” Linacre Quarterly, Volume 60, p. 11, May 1993
20. Priscilla Anderson, “The Foetus as Transplant Donor: Scientific, Social and Ethical Perspectives” [review], Journal of Medical Ethics, Volume 14(1), p. 51-52, March 1988
21. Peter J. McCullagh, The Foetus as Transplant Donor: Scientific, Social and Ethical Perspectives, 1987, John Wiley and Sons
22. S. Kullander and B. Sunden, “On the survival and metabolism of normal and hypothermic pre-viable human foetuses," Journal of Endocrinology, Volume 23, p.69, September 1961
23. Dr. Peter McCullagh, “Fetal Sentience,” p. 5, 1996, [Online] Available from: https://righttolife.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/KS4Fetal Sentience.pdf
24. “Resources Available for Conducting Research on Aging,” National Institute on Aging (1993)
25. Monica Seeley, “Exploring the dark world of vaccines and fetal tissue research: Part 1”, The Catholic World Report, May 17, 2021, [Online] Available from: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/05/17/exploring-the-dark-world-of-vaccines-and-fetal-tissue-research-part-1/#sdendnote4anc
26. Monica Seeley, “Exploring the dark world of vaccines and fetal tissue research: Part 2”, The Catholic World Report, May 26, 2021, [Online] Available from: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/05/26/exploring-the-dark-world-of-vaccines-and-fetal-tissue-research-part-2/
27. The Catechism of the Council of Trent, (J.A McHugh, O.P., and C.J. Callan, Trans.), p. 341, 1923, Middletown, DE [Original 1566]
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Christopher Rogers is the author of the novel Virtual Eternity: An Epic 90s-Retro Florida Techno Pro-life Love Story and Conversion Journey, which dramatizes a story about the Catholic conversion of two twenty-somethings in the 90s, interleaving a story about love, hookups, corporate and social culture in the 90s, technical intrigue, and a journey to the Holy Trinity. The novel is available here, at the Catholic Corner, which is on Mike Church's Crusade Channel website or any other major online bookseller. “Virtual Eternity is a contemporary fiction written by Christopher Rogers that I read and fell in love with. Its rare to find a book that treats of our modern hook-up culture and then honors its antithesis: Sacramental marriage. Rogers does this while weaving his characters through a Big-Tech thriller. Christian readers will appreciate this work as entertainment, done right.” – Mike Church Virtual Eternity is also available in serialized form for free; start reading here.
Christopher is married and has helped raise a family of three children, while also working as a human factors engineer and project manager in the fields of healthcare, intelligence, military, aerospace, and manufacturing. He has Master’s degrees in Humanities (Houston-Clear Lake) and Industrial Engineering (Auburn). Christopher belongs to the Discalced Carmelite Secular Order. He is also the author of the novel Dumb College: A Story about the Decline of Western Civilization.
