Talk:Use of fetal tissue in vaccine development

Cool concept
This article is an interesting intersection in the history of medicine and the history of public opinion on abortion. It seems like "human cell strains in vaccine development" is a topic of research. I know nothing about this but the concept seems to meet WP:N and there seems to be no wiki article on the topic. It might be that this article, "fetal tissue in vaccines", is one concept in a family of articles about deriving vaccines from humans, or even deriving medicine from humans.

This article is great!  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  21:43, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Considering moving to a new title?
I think this article probably ought to exist, but I think this is the wrong title for it, as it seems to make a factual statement that is not true. There isn't really "fetal tissue in vaccines"--fetal tissue was used to initially isolate the cells which have since been reproduced in the lab, and those descendant cells are then used to make vaccines. It seems there is virtually nothing that one would call "fetal issue" in a vaccine. People can and do differ on the moral/religious issue of using products derived from aborted fetuses, but that is not relevant to the actual composition of the end product. I'm not sure I have a great suggested alternative, though. Maybe Use of fetal tissue in vaccine development or something like that? --EightYearBreak (talk) 23:01, 19 March 2019 (UTC)


 * After seven weeks with no response, I went ahead and made this change. First, I reviewed the only two article pages that currently link here. One (Vaccination and religion) does so in a sentence that anticipates this title ("The use of fetal tissue in the development of vaccines...") while the other (WI-38) links only in the See Also section. So I did not see any reason to wait further to make this move. --EightYearBreak (talk) 14:14, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Update and expansion
Important article with some content I was not aware of. It could do with some ce and an update in references to make sure the vaccines are up to date. Could bring some relevant material from WI-38. I will expand it.--Akrasia25 (talk) 13:32, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Why was citing the original source National Catholic Bioethics Center undone?
Why was it undone to (wrongly) citing ABC and NOT the original source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArmosNikita (talk • contribs) 08:22, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Maybe need to change citation?
The article states that fetal cells have been used since the 1930s, and the citation is from a CNN article. However, the original source (from the CNN article) doesn't exist anymore Elodieme (talk) 14:28, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

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