by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer (March 12, 2008) Families concerned about having to vaccinate their children with vaccines made from aborted fetuses will soon have an alternative. Researchers at AVM Biotechnology LLC have announced plans to use existing technology to develop morally acceptable vaccines. “We will be working to bring commercially available, morally acceptable, vaccines to the U.S. market and to use existing technology to produce new morally certified vaccines,” said Dr Theresa Deisher, AVM Biotech Research and Development Director and founder. “Revenues from the vaccine business will also further the research, development and commercialization of morally certified therapeutics in other areas of medicine as well.” According to Children of God for Life (COG), a pro-life organization that has spent more than a decade researching the connection between some vaccines and abortion, there are seven commonly used vaccines that are propagated from the lung tissue of aborted fetuses: polio, rabies, rubella (MMR), chicken pox, hepatitis-A, Twinrix (Hepatitis A-B combo) and Pro-Quad (MMR-Chickenpox combo). Three of these vaccines have no alternative source. Rubella and Hepatitis-A do have another source but it is not available in the United States. This is why the news that ethical vaccines are on the way is so gratifying for the executive director of COG, Debi Vinnedge. “There are no words sufficient to express our deepest gratitude to Dr. Deisher and AVM Biotech,” Vinnedge told LifeNews. “For too long parents who want to protect their children without compromising their deeply held pro-life and religious beliefs have been coerced into an unnecessary and unjust moral dilemma,” she explained. “No one should be forced to choose between these two fundamental human rights.” Vinnedge is hoping AVM’s plans to produce ethical vaccines will encourage members of Congress to support the Fair Labeling and Informed Consent act, a bill that would require full disclosure from the pharmaceutical industry whenever aborted fetal or embryonic cell lines are used in medical products. In the meantime, AVM Biotech has appointed Vinnedge to its Advisory Board for vaccine development in order to insure that the firm’s vaccines do not have any abortion connection. “Every consumer, whether pro-life in philosophy or not, has the right to know if human fetal cell contaminants are present in the drugs they receive," Dr. Deisher said. “Consumers should be informed and empowered to make the best health care choices for themselves and their families. Surely, if we have the right to know what is in our fast food, we should also have the right to know what is in our medicine." © All Rights Reserved, Living His Life Abundantly/Women of Grace. http://www.womenofgrace.com