Chicken Pox vaccine made from aborted fetal tissue?

[DawnStorm]

One of today's subjects on the afternoon talk radio show I listen to is the new MD bill/law that mandates all girls in 6th grade (and up I guess) get the new HPV shot. There was the usual debate and a few tin-foilers called, but when the host spoke to one caller about the chicken pox vaccine, she said that she would not get her child that shot because it was made from aborted fetal tissue. Sounds like a load of what I clean out of my cats' litter boxes to me. Any of you ever hear this?

[Ryda Wong, EBfCo.]

Dear goddess. Whatever you do, don't google "chicken pox aborted".

Crazy folk on the web.

However, this is, apparently, founded in some sort of fact:
"In weighing how to handle the issue, Georgetown looked to the debate of a decade ago, when many Catholics became aware that cells from an aborted fetus were used to originate cultures used to manufacture chicken pox vaccine and measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. Since then, a measles-mumps-rubella vaccine has been developed without cells from an aborted fetus, but the chicken pox vaccine is still made with the same cell line. "

I.E., an aborted fetus' cell line was used to develop the vaccine in the first place.


From WaPo

[DawnStorm]

Aaaahhh, I see! And I will not Google 'chicken pox aborted' unless I'm incredibly bored.