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Children of God for Life is urging West Virginia lawmakers to scrap HB 2835 mandating Merck's new Gardasil HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine. Following last week' hotly debated Executive Order by Governor Perry to mandate Gardasil in Texas, West Virginia is the latest of at least two dozen states proposing to add the controversial vaccine as a requirement for school attendance. However, unlike Texas and 48 other states including DC, which have laws allowing parents to opt-out, WVA and Mississippi are the only two States that do not provide religious or philosophical exemptions for vaccines. "It is utterly disgraceful that...

The FDA is issuing guidelines to the pharmaceutical industry for developing vaccines using several ethical cell lines - and several ABORTED FETAL CELL LINES - both new and existing.  They are inviting Public Response through December 28th on Docket Number 2006D-0383.  We need to use this unique opportunity to absolutely bombard the FDA, CDC and HHS with our letters! Please note this is open to all countries as well - not just US Citizens!  I cannot express enough the URGENCY for everyone reading this to take a few momenst to register at our website and file your comments with the...

For Immediate Release: May 16, 2006 Contact: Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director 1-877-488-LIFE or email debi@cogforlife.org Children of God for Life Backs CMA Initiative: End Aborted Fetal Vaccines (Largo, FL) Children of God for Life is standing staunchly behind the Catholic Medical Association on their recent statement and press release calling for vaccine manufacturers to produce vaccines that are “not associated with abortion”. For years Children of God for Life has called on physicians and pro-life groups across the country to pressure the government and pharmaceutical industry in their Campaign for Ethical Vaccines, which currently has over 550,000 supporters. “United, we...

OTTAWA, April 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Concerned Canadian pharmacists have published a list of vaccines in use in the country that are currently sourced from aborted fetal tissues. It turns out that all vaccines with the exception of the flu vaccine utilize aborted fetal tissues.Alternatives do exist upon special request from a physician for the hepatitis B and rabies vaccines; visit http://www.cogforlife.org/canadianvaccines.htm to see a complete list of vaccines. The Children of God for Life (COG) web site also includes a list of medications that are derived from aborted fetal tissue, including the rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel ®. A Vatican...

Misrepresentation in press leads Vatican official to clarify position on vaccinesLargo, Fl., Aug. 04, 2005 (CNA) - Msgr. Jacques Suaudeau of the Pontifical Academy for the Family has clarified the content in the recent Vatican statement on vaccines, putting to rest any misunderstandings that may have followed after a news agency misrepresented the statement and the monsignor’s comments. Msgr. Suaudeau had spoken with a journalist from the news agency but, according to Children of God for Life, the news agency had “grossly misquoted” the monsignor’s intentions, and he “responded in his own defense.”The Vatican’s eight-page document states that Catholics can...

"It is a Grave Responsibility to Use Alternative Vaccines" VATICAN CITY, JULY 26, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Here is a letter sent by Bishop Elio Sgreccia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, to Mrs. Debra Vinnedge, executive director, Children of God for Life. The letter presents the following study conducted by the academy entitled "Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Aborted Human Fetuses." * * * Vatican City, June 9, 2005 Mrs. Debra Vinnedge Executive Director, Children of God for Life United States Dear Mrs. Debra Vinnedge, On June 4, 2003, you wrote to His Eminence Cardinal Joseph...

LARGO, FL, July 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Pontifical Academy for Life under the direction of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued an "approved" study regarding vaccines derived from aborted fetal cell lines. The study was undertaken in response to a US group called Children of God for Life, which has for years fought for the creation of ethical vaccines which are not 'tainted' by abortion.In the document published in Medicina e Morale by the Center for Bioethics of Catholic University in Rome and titled, Moral Reflections On Vaccines Prepared From Cells Derived From Aborted Human...

Loving our enemies? By Leslie Hanks   One of the most difficult aspects of this walk we have as followers of Jesus, is the imprecation to love our enemies.   Who wants to do that?    A particularly vivid example in many of our lives at this juncture in history, is the wicked troika who seem to hold the fate of our friend Terri Schindler Schiavo in their hands.   One writer asks the question about Terri’s former spouse, “husband or monster?”   Monster, I say!!  It gives me some measure of comfort to describe him that way, I’m sorry...

Please read the statement released by the National Catholic Bioethics Center regarding the aborted fetal cell line research at Georgetown University - and our response. And then I ask you to spread this message far and wide to every Christian you know. These people are supposed to be giving guidance and direction to our Bishops and Church leaders. And for those of you who have faithfully followed our work, you will be shocked to learn that not only does this Catholic organization think that Georgetown's research is perfectly acceptable, they believe the pharmaceutical industry is blameless as well! In Christ...

WASHINGTON, DC, February 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Georgetown University Right to Life, the official pro-life club of the Catholic University, was incredulous that their Catholic school was using cell lines from aborted babies and found it even more unbelievable that the university would continue to use the cell lines after the research was recently publicly exposed. In related news, Children of God for Life, the pro-life group which initially discovered Georgetown's unethical research and brought it to the attention of Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has launched an online petition to stop the university's use of aborted fetal cell lines. They...

Date:    October 27, 2003 To:       Attorney General John Ashcroft             Delegate Bob Marshall Ref:      Continuation for Request of Intervention on behalf of Terri Schiavo (October 21st)  As in previous letters dated October 21st, 22nd and 23rd, this letter serves as our request for urgent action on behalf of Terri Schiavo by Federal officials.  We are asking for: An immediate criminal investigation of Michael Schiavo, Judge George Greer and the Federally funded Woodside Hospice Center in Pinellas Park Fl, all who have grossly violated Terri Schiavo’s rights under both State and Federal statutes. We further request an immediate intervention to...

From Debi Vinndege this site (below) - links to the National Hospice..and now the pieces fall into place. Felos is the Director of the Fl Right to Die (formerly named the Fl Hemlock Society) Greer is on the Board of Directors at Hospice - Felos used to be too...and now we have the Hemlock Society of Hospice?....well isn't this a nice tidy package...and there is money going around, plus lobbying, legislation etc...read on and start worrying... would love to get the names of those who practice this!!! Hospice for Hemlock Hospice and Right to Die Consultation http://www.hospiceforhemlock.com/_wsn/page2.html Please copy the...

Chris Ferrara's Legal Brief - Click here (PDF file format) to read the legal brief Chris Ferrara prepared for Terri's case. Un-freakin'-believable! If the State of Florida doesn't prosecute Michael Schiavo, I'm off to enroll in law school tomorrow. Here are some experts from the brief relating to Schiavo's lawyer, George Fellos: 45. "Non-party co-conspirator Felos has been paid $550,000, virtually the entirety of Terri's estate...and no funds from the estate have been used for her rehabilitation..." 34. "On page 216, again discussing the Estate of Browning , Mr. Felos writes about the late Estele Browning...'Having spoken with Mrs. Browning...

URGENT - ACTION NEEDED AT ONCE While many have heard that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube has been re-inserted, her life is in eminent danger. Michael Schiavo is still her legal guardian. The would-be murderer is responsible for guarding his own victim! In addition when Terri was moved from hospice, he immediately blocked visitation rights at the hospital for her parents, siblings and family priest - the only source of Terri's comfort, love and joy. An emergency motion ordered visitation restored for the family but it was not received in the attorney's offices until 5:15PM today. By the time the family...

This won't be on her website yet http://www.cogforlife.org She just emaied it to me - enjoy. Yes they are fighting it...the attorneys for the husband are trying to sue the governor - they are trying anything they can pull - and they are scaring people into refusing treatment. Michael is still legal guardian so he has some rights - but he may lose them quickly (we hope!) The family has filed for a guardian et litem to be assigned at once...already rejected by one judge earlier today. That will change, mark my words!!! Meanwhile, she has an IV - not...

Children of God for Life - August Update * MMR Titre test may show booster not needed... * Judie Brown, Jay Carpenter, MD, join CoG for Life Board... * Tainted smallpox vaccine will not be used in US... * Volunteers Needed for Pro-Life Project ... * Japan's efforts to license ethical rubella vaccine in US - update... * Merck Boycott having an effect ... * Choose Life plates and frame available for all cars... *************************** MMR Titre test may show booster not needed... If your child received the MMR as an infant and is due for a booster we...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 25, 2003 Contact: Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director Children of God for Life (727) 538-5558 Email: debi@cogforlife.org http://www.cogforlife.org MERCK REQUESTS SHAREHOLDERS VOTE AGAINST RESOLUTION TO STOP THE USE OF ABORTED FETAL TISSUE IN VACCINES (Clearwater, FL; Front Royal, VA) Pro-life organizations, Children of God for Life and Human Life International charged today that pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co. has betrayed their stockholders by refusing to include language in Shareholder Proposal No. 7. that would have revealed: - An organized boycott of all Merck products - A resolution by the Catholic Medical Association to use alternatives to their...

A pro-life group is warning that thousands of Americans might refuse a smallpox vaccine created from a stem cell line derived from an aborted fetus.A British company -- the Cambridge, England-based Acambis Plc.-- is one of three companies bidding to produce 250 million doses of smallpox vaccine, enough for every American, after Health Secretary Tommy Thompson announced the vaccine stockpile plan. Also in the running are Merck & Co. of Whitehouse Station, N.J., and the London-based GlaxoSmithKline Plc.A spokeswoman for the British company told CNSNews.com Tuesday that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked the company to ...

SPECIAL ALERT:  New Smalllpox Vaccine May Use Aborted Fetal Cell Line, MRC-5 The Washington Post announced the award of a contract for the development of a new smallpox vaccine to Oravax/Acambis Corporation. The proposal presented to the CDC and FDA would encompass using "human fibroblasts."  We checked the proposed ingredients through the CDC and found they intend to use aborted fetal cell line MRC-5 as the cell substrate for growing the virus. The CDC report also stated that other established animal substrates such as chick embryo, (used in Rabies vaccine) Vero Cell Lines and FRHL-2 Cell lines were viable ...

Children of God for Life -- Vaccine Update January 2004 - Chiron Corporation and Japanese to meet this month! - Children of God for Life to meet in DC on fair labeling legislation - CMA, Pharmacists for Life and Protection of Conscience Project support legislation - Georgetown University stops use of aborted fetal cell lines in medical research - Single dose vaccines - help us build our database of pro-life doctors! ********************************************** - Chiron Corporation and Japanese to meet this month! At long last, Chiron Corporation's vaccine division in Italy will meet with the Kitasato Institute in Tokyo Japan...