yawn.
Merck is a 125 year old company with their fingers in so many health, vaccines and other related r&d pies it is unlikely anyone on the board knows all the facets of development. Even if She did know about it, abortion and stem cell research is a legal practice in the USA. A board member does not have unilateral power to change company position regardless. She was there all of two years.
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iVnnedge provided “Inside Story” with a copy of a letter dated November 2000, in which a Merck representative acknowledges the group’s complaints and defends its vaccines.
According to the Merck letter, “human diploid cell lines, which are approved and maintained by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under strict federal guidelines, originated from two legal abortions in the United Kingdom and Sweden in the 1960s. These abortions were not undertaken with the intent of producing vaccines.”
The stem-cell lines in use today are used primarily in Merck’s MMR and MMRV vaccines, the only measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in the United States.
Vinnedge said she believes Fiorina might not have been aware that Merck’s vaccines utilized stem-cell lines derived from aborted fetuses, but said, “if she’s stridently pro-life and against Planned Parenthood, she would not be in favor. She would not want to be on the board of a company that was doing that.”