American Life League reported last week that Adel A. F. Mahmoud, president of Merck Vaccines, confirmed that “human diploid cell lines, which are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and maintained under strict Federal guidelines, originated from two legal, therapeutically indicated abortions in the 1960s. These abortions were not undertaken with the intent of producing vaccines. No new fetal tissue is needed to produce cell lines to make vaccines, now or in the future. Currently, human diploid cell lines are used to prepare vaccines against such serious or fatal diseases, including polio and rabies, as well as some of Merck’s live virus vaccines.”