Pregnant Women and Swine Flu Testing

 I have been blogging about the dangers of the swine flu vaccine and continue to receive warnings from friends in the medical field about the dangers of this vaccine to both the mother and her unborn child.

Recently, I  found this startling news at Lake County Right to Life:

A trial of the swine flu vaccine will be conducted at Baylor College of Medicine, Group Health Cooperative Ctr. for Health Studies in Seattle, St. Louis University, Vandervilt University in Nashville, Duke University in North Carolina and Scott & White Memorial Hospital & Clinic in Texas. This study will be conducted and funded, through the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NID).

Pregnant women are usually exempt, from medical research, that doesn't involve issues relating to pregnancy. The reason is, to protect them and their babies, from dangerous side-effects of drugs.

I take the liberty in this blog, to ask, why a pregnant woman would subject herself and her baby, to an untested fast-tracked vaccine? The arguments used to promote testing are, that pregnant women account for 6% of the deaths, early in the epidemic, although they account for only 1% of the population. My response to that, is, do they have pre-existing disease? If so, it's not a fair statement, to say, that they are at risk. However, if you consider pregnancy a disease, then ...

 Why indeed would a woman submit herself and her child to such risks? What do you think? Why would those in the medical professional use pregnant women and their unborn children to risk their health and possibly their lives for such tests?


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  1. Anonymous9/13/09, 3:12 AM

    Sounds to me of shades of the Hitler experiments. Only with Hitler, the subjects didn't go willingly.

    These women must be very desperate and uninformed!

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  2. Unknown9/13/09, 6:47 AM

    brings to mind the old stand by comment:

    What could possibly go wrong here?

    Can anyone remember that amazing new discovery Thalidomide? What a boon that was supposed to be and what devastation it brought to women and their babies. One of my friends growing up was a Thalidomide baby, luckily her only deficit was one withered hand and not all four of her limbs gone.

    Sadly, they will get women for these studies. Either women who are willing or women who need money and do it for pay.

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  3. Valerie9/13/09, 8:03 AM

    This is really scary to me personally, Jean. My oldest daugher is seven and a half months pregnant, with lupus nephritis (in remission). ALL of her doctors are recommending that she have this vaccination - even with the full knowledge that she always has a horrible reaction to the flu and pneumonia vaccines (she almost died 4 years ago after having those vaccines one right after the other). I don't want her to to have the vaccine (I think, actually, you have to have two of them spread out over a 6 week period) - but then, if she caught the swine flu, I would feel horrible. We go to her new OB/GYN on Tuesday, so please pray for Sara as she tries to make a decision about what to do. Thank you.

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