> Link to poster:
> http://www.nationalcynical.com/images/advert-080401.jpg
>
> What?:
>
> The National...

> So, this all makes me suspicious. I'm interested in getting an idea
> of how this vaccine really came into being. The argument "this is
> made from aborted babies!!!!!" sounds hysterical, and there's got to
> be some logic behind it. If it actually did originate with an aborted
> fetus, then so be it. I just want to know the truth.

> Running the Bulldada Newsblog means that every so often, I stumble
> across stories like this:
>
> * Coast Guard allows dumbass soldier to refuse hepatitis A vaccine
> because it's "made from an aborted child:" http://tinyurl.com/43n2zm
>
> Apparently, the idea here is that , the vaccine used to prevent
> hepatitis A infections, was originally bred from the lung tissue of an
> aborted fetus in the 1960s. The fetus was aborted for "psychiatric
> reasons."
>
> Or at least, that's what I read when I went looking for information
> about this. The only references to this at all that I could find were
> on Catholic and anti-abortion sites, anti-abortion sites in general,
> and anti-vaccination sites. There seems to be no information about
> this at all on legitimate medical sites. Even the Wikipedia entry on
> does not mention it at all; and you'd expect to see a mention of it
> there.
> ...

> Running the Bulldada Newsblog means that every so often, I stumble
> across stories like this:
>
> * Coast Guard allows dumbass soldier to refuse hepatitis A vaccine
> because it's "made from an aborted child:" http://tinyurl.com/43n2zm
>
> Apparently, the idea here is that , the vaccine used to prevent
> hepatitis A infections, was originally bred from the lung tissue of an
> aborted fetus in the 1960s. The fetus was aborted for "psychiatric
> reasons."
>
> Or at least, that's what I read when I went looking for information
> about this. The only references to this at all that I could find were
> on Catholic and anti-abortion sites, anti-abortion sites in general,
> and anti-vaccination sites. There seems to be no information about
> this at all on legitimate medical sites. Even the Wikipedia entry on
> does not mention it at all; and you'd expect to see a mention of it
> there.
> ...