We Don’t Know if Abortion-Free Vaccines Are Possible. Because We Haven’t Really Tried. By Jay Richards, John Zmirak

Imagine if the COVID vaccine were made using research from Nazi concentration camps, or body parts from victims of unjust police shootings. Would everybody just shrug?

By Jay Richards and John Zmirak, The Stream, April 26, 2021

What if most of the critical vaccines we needed to take throughout our lives had been developed using body parts from Uyghur slaves in China? Or victims of police shootings in America? How would Christians react? How should we?

Enslaved Black Women Were Treated as Lab Rats

This isn’t, alas, far-fetched. It turns out that the pioneer of gynecology, James Marion Sims, compiled the basic data for the science in a likewise horrific way. According to History.com:

Sims, who practiced medicine at a time when treating women was considered distasteful and rarely done, invented the vaginal speculum, a tool used for dilation and examination. He also pioneered a surgical technique to repair vesicovaginal fistula, a common 19th-century complication of childbirth in which a tear between the uterus and bladder caused constant pain and urine leakage. …