Posted on 11/13/2014 7:03:04 AM PST by Gamecock
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) A row between the Catholic Church and the government over a tetanus vaccine aimed at women in their childbearing years has clergy urging people to shun the injection, saying it’s a stealth population-control ploy.
On Tuesday (Nov.11), the bishops appearing before the parliamentary health committee said they had tested the vaccine privately and were shocked to find it was laced with a birth control hormone called beta human chorionic gonadotropin.
“We are calling on all Kenyans to avoid the tetanus vaccination campaign because we are convinced it is indeed a disguised population control program,” said Bishop Paul Kariuki, chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops’ health committee.
The tangle began in March, when bishops became suspicious about the vaccine, which was targeted at women in the reproductive ages of 14 to 49, and excluded boys and men.
An ordinary tetanus shot can protect a person for 10 years, with a booster available for those who have suffered an injury.
The bishops also wondered why the campaign was being rolled out in phases and in secrecy.
“To our surprise, the Ministry of Health confirmed it had not tested the vaccine, having trusted it, since it originated from WHO (World Health Organization), a credible organization in matters of health,” said Kariuki.
The government insists the vaccine is safe. The World Health Organization and UNICEF have sponsored the campaign, which targets 2.4 million women. The government began providing the shots in October 2013.
“We have explained the science behind targeting the women,” said James Macharia, health ministry Cabinet secretary. “We have embarked on the campaign to speed up the elimination of the disease among women in the reproductive age.”
According to the bishops, when the ordinary tetanus vaccine is combined with b-HCG and given in five doses every six months, the women develop immunity for both tetanus and HCG, a hormone necessary for pregnancy. Subsequently, the body rejects any pregnancy, causing repeated miscarriages and eventually sterility.
In 1995, the World Health Organization proposed a similar campaign in Kenya, but the bishops protested, demanding that the vaccine be tested independently. Instead of submitting a sample for testing, WHO stopped the campaign, said Kariuki.
WHO carried out similar vaccination campaigns in Mexico in 1993 and in Nicaragua and the Philippines in 1994.
“What is immoral and evil is that the tetanus laced with HCG was given as a fertility regulating vaccine without disclosing its contraceptive effect to the girls and mothers,” said Dr. Wahome Ngare, a member of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association.
I don’t know what to make of this, need to pull out a reference and read up.
India: 11 women die, 62 more hospitalized after being paid to be sterilized
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/11/world/asia/india-sterilization-deaths/
That doesn't pass the sniff test. Why wouldn't you want to eliminate the disease among as many different groups as possible - ie. everyone?
Would it be a bridge too far to surmise that Bill and Melinda Gates are somehow intertwined with the funding on this project?
Melinda Gates? They once promised to reduce the world’s population by 1 billion...
Are those the Georgia Guidestones?
Good tried! we need to do lunch! See my post just after yours...
YES
Wow. A country where the Catholic bishops don’t side with the pro-abortion, pro-birth-control, totalitarian regime. Someday, here in the U.S., maybe we will have such bishops.
It makes more sense, though, to instruct both midwives and women of childbearing age in the necessity of cord hygiene. Give them bottles of bleach at the correct dilution, or little alcohol lamps for flame sterilization, and teach them strictly how to use them.
Since many FReepers are unfamiliar with some recent research findings, here's more info. Laboratory tests on vaccines used in a vaccination campaign in Kenya in March, 2014 confirmed that the vaccines contained the Beta HCG sub unit hormone ---a hormone known to render women infertile.
This vaccine consists in part of an alpha-subunit of ovine luteinizing hormone, beta hCG:alpha oLH) linked to tetanus toxoid (TT) or diphtheria toxoid (DT) as carriers. The vaccine was praised by researchers ten years ago, when it first was discovered that "women of proven fertility leading active sexual life were protected from becoming pregnant."
I.e. thousands of women getting tetanus shots were --- so to speak ---as an added bonus at no extra cost (!!!)---- rendered temporarily or permanently sterile without all that complicated business of having to get their consent...
FReepers, get up to date on this (LINK)
Tetanus also come from the lacerations that normally come with childbirth. Women give birth at home with dirt floors, spores get kicked up and they get tetanus.
I am fully onboard with the tetanus program, it’s the Hcg that is bothersome.
Correct -— I’m with you there.
too late for stanley dunham.
Ha ha ha! Yes!
Chesterton on birth control/population control:
In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in which he said that “The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.”
For some of the core research.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7683889
Wonder how many vaccines have this in them.
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