Trudeau govt to work with China in testing new COVID-19 vaccine from aborted babies

One expert said the vaccine, derived from the cell lines of an aborted fetus, may not be very effective.

Thu May 14, 2020 - 7:38 pm EST

Justin Trudeau and his family (2015).arindambanerjee / Shutterstock.com

By Anthony Murdoch

OTTAWA, Ontario, May 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Canada's largest federal research and development organization announced that it will be teaming up with a Chinese vaccine company with the hopes of testing a new trial coronavirus vaccine in Canada, which, one watchdog is warning, is made from aborted fetal cell lines.

In a press release sent out on May 12, the National Research Council (NRC) announced a collaboration with the Chinese firm CanSino Biologics Inc. (CanSinoBIO), to test its trial coronavirus vaccine, known as Ad5-nCoV, in Canada.

Alan Moy M.D., founder and scientific director of the John Paul II Medical Research Institute and CEO of Cellular Engineering Technologies, confirmed for LifeSiteNews that Ad5-nCoV was indeed developed unethically. It uses the NRC’s HEK293 cell line, which was developed by the NRC and was made from aborted fetal cell lines. 

“Since it’s using an adenovirus replication-defective vector, it is using HEK293. HEK293 is an aborted fetal cell line,” said Moy to LifeSiteNews.

Moy says the Ad5-nCoV vaccine being promoted by the Canadian government in collaboration with China may not prove to be very effective.

“I don’t envy Canadians. Your government and PM have mandated draconian policies that are anti-life,” said Moy.

 “Another problem is that there is a high incidence of immunity against Ad5, so chances are high that patients will reject the vaccine. Not a good vaccine solution if pro-life or pro-choice,” added Moy, referencing an abstract to support his claim.

The trial vaccine Ad5-nCoV was co-developed by the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology and CanSinoBIO. Ad5-nCoV has already been used in initial human trials since mid-March in China. According to the NRC press release, it is the world's first phase 2 coronavirus vaccine, which is approved to “safely” be used in human tests.

CanSinoBIO is now filling out the needed paperwork to get Ad5-nCoV approved for testing in Canada.   Before this can happen, Health Canada will still have to approve the trial.

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Mr. Iain Stewart, president of the National Research Council of Canada, was quoted as saying in the press release that the “vaccine candidate holds great promise,” adding that the “NRC is proud of our ongoing partnership with CanSino Biologics.”

Dr. Xuefeng Yu, chairman and CEO of CanSinoBIO said in the press release that his firm has “strong connections to Canada, and we’re proud to be building on past successes and continuing our ongoing partnership with the NRC to address health needs on a global scale.”

The NRC said in its press release that it hopes its collaboration with CanSinoBIO will help it “to advance a scale-up production process for the vaccine candidate, using its proprietary HEK293 cell line.”

The government of Canada announced that it would be providing $44 million to support and upgrade the NRC’s Montreal location.

In April, the pro-abortion prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, said he needed time to “reflect” about the possibility of making a coronavirus vaccine mandatory in Canada if and when it becomes available.

In 2019, the JP2MRI started its "Campaign for Cures" with the goal being to “develop ethical human cell lines that can be used in the bio-manufacturing of vaccines, protein therapeutics, gene therapy, and cell therapy.”

The JP2MRI says it “developed methods to immortalize two human adult stem cells,” and for 2020, its “Campaign for Cures” will apply its technology to develop an ethical vaccine for the coronavirus. The institute needs to raise $325,000 by December 31, 2020.

In April, Catholic bishops along with many pro-life leaders sent a letter to U.S. federal health authorities and the Trump administration demanding that vaccines be “free from any connection to abortion.”

Ted Kuntz, president of Vaccine Choice Canada (VCC), a not-for-profit society founded by families who have suffered from vaccine reactions or injuries, told LifeSiteNews at the time that any type of forced vaccination is “morally repugnant” and unconstitutional.

Canada’s collaboration with China to test Ad5-nCoV comes despite growing evidence and calls from many that China is ground zero for the coronavirus. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is China’s only level four biosafety lab, and there has been speculation that the coronavirus somehow escaped from its doors.

A paper authored by two Chinese scientists, Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao — both from the state-run South China University of Technology — traces how they think the virus escaped a Wuhan bio-lab that was researching horseshoe bats. Their February 2020 paper, titled “The Possible Origins of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus,” has since disappeared from the international scholarly database Research Gate but is still available through the Wayback Machine and on LifeSiteNews here.

According to a report by the Washington Post, U.S. embassy officials in China warned their government two years ago that a research facility in Wuhan did not have proper safety measures in place. 

In April, it was reported that Trudeau gave close to $1 million of taxpayer money to help fund “research” for new COVID-19 “screening and diagnosis” tools at the Chinese lab where the virus is suspected to have originated.

In the past, Trudeau has openly spoken about his admiration for China. He famously praised China’s “basic dictatorship” in speaking at a Liberal Party fundraising event in 2013 after a reporter asked him which country besides Canada he most admires.

Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, who has been called out for a lack of a proper response to the coronavirus epidemic, has direct ties to the World Health Organization (WHO). She is one of seven people who sit on the Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee (IOAC) for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme. 

Despite this fact, the Trudeau government has persisted in backing the WHO, regardless of mounting evidence that it lacks credibility and is heavily influenced by the Chinese regime.

The life of Josiah - three remarkable characteristics
Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 34: 1-2

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Three remarkable features
How would Josia behave? With the role models? It is surprising that Josia is completely different. Before God describes his actions in detail, three things - like a heading - are said about Josiah:

1. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord

2. He walked on the paths of his father David

3. He did not deviate to the right or to the left.

What God Says About Josia's Life

Let us now turn to the statements about Josia. Three statements that are intrinsic and also appeal to us:

1. "He did what was right in the eyes of God"
Josia was aware that God saw everything he did. None of this remained hidden. Of course, this goes further than just our actions, but also our words and our thoughts are open to God; "No creature is invisible before him, but everything is bare and uncovered before the eyes of those with whom we are dealing" (Hebrews 4:13). This fact prompted him to do "what was right in God's eyes." It was important to Josiah to have God's approval.

The opposite behavior is doing what is right in your own eyes. The behavior of the people of Israel, as described in the book of judges, was precisely characterized by this. The time of the judges was characterized by everyone doing "what was right in their eyes" (Judges 21:25). But what was right and good in their own eyes was evil in the eyes of God, because God judged the behavior of the people that they were doing "what was evil in the eyes of the Lord" (Judges 3: 6).

Simson is a prototype of that time. Judge 14 tells us how he goes to Timna and falls in love with a woman. But this woman did not belong to the people of Israel - she belonged to the Philistine people, declared enemies of the people of Israel. But that was obviously not a criterion for Simson, because he tells his father that he wanted exactly this woman to be his wife. The father protests, but Samson replies: "Take this, because it is right in my eyes" (Judges 14.3). He was acting not only against his father's advice, but clearly against God's instructions. "There is a path that just appears to a person, but its end is a path of death" (Proverbs 14:12). How has this literally turned out in the case of Samson?

It's about whether we live according to our own will or God's will. What is the standard for my life? Is that me? What do I like, what do I like? Or my friends; society? How do we orient ourselves?

Josia at least "did what was right in the eyes of God" - that can motivate us too!

Let us turn to the next statement about Josia.

2. He "walked in the ways of his father David"
David was of course not his real father - that was Amon. But David was his spiritual father, his role model, whom he followed.

David was the man "after the heart of God". We find this astonishing statement twice in God's Word. If we look at these passages, it quickly becomes clear why God calls him a "man after my heart".

1. 1. Sam 13,13.14: “And Samuel said to Saul: You have acted foolishly, you have ignored the commandment of the Lord your God, which he commanded you; for now the Lord would have confirmed your kingship over Israel forever; but now your kingdom will not exist. The Lord has chosen a man for his heart, and the Lord has appointed him prince over his people; because you ignored what the Lord had commanded you. "

He "did not deviate to the right nor to the left"
Josia's life was balanced and without extremes, neither on one side nor on the other. In it, Josiah is the only king about whom that is said. It is striking that it does not say exactly what Josia has deviated neither to the right nor to the left. However, in relation to the law God gave to the people of Israel, we find that the people should not deviate from the right or the left. So e.g. in Deuteronomy 5:32: “So be careful to do what the Lord your God commanded you to do; deviates neither to the right nor to the left ”.

It is not difficult to apply this to us. We have the whole Word of God - Old and New Testament - and we shouldn't deviate from it either on the right or on the left.

We deviate to the right when we go beyond God's Word, add something, or overemphasize. For example, these can be views that we cannot really substantiate with the Bible, but which we present as the only correct ones.

Many behaviors - both personal and collective - are traditionally justified. Not every tradition is equally bad, at least not if it does not contradict the Word of God. But even if it doesn't, there is a danger that we will equate a tradition to the Word of God and thus add something to the Word of God.

On the other hand, we deviate to the left when we take something away from God's Word, or reduce it to what we like. Nobody would of course think of tearing out certain pages of the Bible. And yet we do nothing else if we downgrade Bible passages to be binding. An extreme example of this is that you don't see the whole Bible as the Word of God, just that it contains the Word of God. Or we take something away from the Bible if we put aside Bible passages with the note that they only applied to the culture at that time - an argument that is often given in relation to the letters to the Corinthians. We also take something away from the Bible when we think that God would be an exception with us. Or we can apply the Bible to others in all sharpness, but when it comes to us or our family, we become very generous.

Several examples can certainly be found. But how can such a deviation from God's Word be prevented?

by being honest with ourselves and with God
by being in awe of his word and accepting it as God's word
by reading God's Word daily with prayer so that we can get to know ALL of God's thoughts
by putting what we know from God's Word into practice
by having the firm intention to follow the path of the Bible
by having the willingness to be corrected by the Bible.

Friedemann Werkshage