>> I am Stanley Plotkin, Professor Emeritus
of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania.
There is a lot of misunderstanding about the
use of fetal cells to make vaccines.
In fact, the only fetal cells that are used
to make vaccines go back to two fetuses,
one from Sweden and one from England, that came
from mothers who no longer wished to have
their pregnancies.
Those cells were transferred to Philadelphia
where they were cultivated, and by cultivation
I mean that they were caused to multiply again
and again and then stored in freezers.
So, the use of fetal cells to grow vaccine
viruses is based solely on those two fetuses.
The point is that you can start with one single
cell and multiply it again and again and then
freeze all of those cells with which you can
then make vaccines.
So, we no longer need new fetuses to provide
life-saving vaccines made in fetal cells.
