New revelations have been released by a Pfizer employee that indicates that some of the top executives at the Big Pharma drug maker had been trying to minimize the accusations that their corona vaccine uses tissue that has been derived from aborted babies, according to some documents released by watchdog group Project Veritas.
Melissa Strickler has described herself in the Project Veritas video as someone who worked at the company’s plant in McPherson, Kansas, and she is the one who came forward with the allegations.
The documentation was published by Project Veritas, and that is when chief scientific officer Philip Dormitzer the same as admitted that yes, they had indeed used aborted fetal tissue in connection with the vaccines.
However, he played some damage control, urging in an email that the connection should not be bluntly stated to the public.
“HEK293T cells, used for the IVE assay, are ultimately derived from an aborted fetus,” Dormitzer wrote. “On the other hand, the Vatican doctrinal committee has confirmed that they consider it acceptable for Pro-Life believers to be immunized. Pfizer’s official statement couches the answer well and is what should be provided in response to an outside inquiry.”
In the interview, Strickler told Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe that those initials listed at the beginning of the email are actually pretty telling: they stand for “human embryo kidney cells” and the number denoted “293” had referred to the experiment number.
Pfizer Senior Director of Worldwide Research Vanessa Gelman insisted that the company had to be sure that this issue was never raised in public.
“From the perspective of corporate affairs, we want to avoid having the information on fetal cells floating out there,” Gelman wrote.
“We believe that the risk of communicating this right now outweighs any potential benefit we could see, particularly with general members of the public who may take this information and use it in ways we may not want out there. We have not received any questions from policymakers or media on this issue in the last few weeks, so we want to avoid raising this if possible,” she wrote.
Gelman noted that it was Pfizer, and not the employees, that wanted certain information to be kept hidden.
“We have been trying as much as possible to not mention the fetal cell lines,” she wrote.
“One or more cell lines with an origin that can be traced back to human fetal tissue has been used in laboratory tests associated with the vaccine program,” she wrote
Strickler also noted that it was unclear what the ultimate between the manufactured vaccine and the aborted fetal tissue actually was.
“They’re being so deceptive in their emails, it’s almost like it is in the final vaccine. It just made me not trust it,” she said.
Strickler was pessimistic about the final outcome at the company regarding this issue. She felt that even though she was blowing the whistle, no one was going to listen anyway.
“I have no one else to turn to when my own company won’t be honest with me. What I was told to do was to trust Project Veritas and to go with you guys by lawmakers, by lawyers,” she said.
Strickler told O’Keefe that she had to take a “mental health leave of absence” from Pfizer before she went public because “I was sickened and traumatized from a lot of the things that I realized were going on.”
She also noted that one of the main reasons why Pfizer wants to keep this issue quiet is because they thought a lot more people would feel the need to request a religious exemption to the vaccine if word of this got out.
Earlier this year, there was a joint statement issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops where Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City and Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend said there were some ethical questions regarding Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine. However, at that time they cleared Pfizer for their vaccine production. Both of these men are heavily involved in the pro-life activities of the Catholic Church.
“The approval of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in the United States again raises questions about the moral permissibility of using vaccines developed, tested, and/or produced with the help of abortion-derived cell lines,” the statement said.
“Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines raised concerns because an abortion-derived cell line was used for testing them, but not in their production. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, however, was developed, tested, and is produced with abortion-derived cell lines raising additional moral concerns.
“The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has judged that ‘when ethically irreproachable Covid-19 vaccines are not available … it is morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process,’” they wrote.
“I have faith that I’ll be protected, or whatever the outcome is is what it’s supposed to be,” she said.