Research abandoned on contraceptive vaccine to ‘immunize’ women against pregnancy

[lemonbeam]

Washington D.C., Dec 1, 2009 / 06:15 pm (CNA).- A leading contraceptive researcher has abandoned her attempts to create a vaccine that would render a woman “immune” from pregnancy. The Population Research Institute lauded the end of the research, which it said tried to make a woman’s body treat pregnancy as a disease. Based on research into women who are infertile because of antibodies that inhibit sperm from fertilizing the egg, Dr. Donnie Dunbar had hoped to develop a vaccine that would trick a healthy woman’s immune system into a hostile reaction to her own eggs. She intended the vaccine to help combat what she saw as the “world population problem.”

Tests which injected rabbits with pig proteins caused an autoimmune response, but it completely destroyed the ovaries.

“Unfortunately, we weren’t just looking at preventing fertilization now; we generated a complete autoimmune disease, which is also known as premature ovarian failure,” Dunbar said, according to the Population Research Institute.

“I am responsible for killing this vaccine for further human research, and I made some people in my biotech company and some other people very unhappy.”

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[st_lucy]

What a scary thought.

 

[TraceG]

What is scary about this is BO was/is wanting someone in his staff that had tried to make the arguement for compulsory murdering of babies, and putting sterilization drugs in food supply and water supply. It’s studies like this that make me VERY apprehensive about government sponsored vaccines and such, but I’m just a conspiracy nut anyways. With vaccines like that there is no telling where they would end up.

 

[lumenorientale]

Sounds like a very good premise for a scary Sci Fi novel/movie. Maybe someone who is much more skilled with the written word will take this up.

This whole thing raises a bunch of questions. Who would be selected to be vaccinated? Would it be compulsory? Would it not have to be compulsory because most women would not want to be “immune” for their entire lives? What would happen afterward? If only a small segment of the population were to remain fertile, would this not lead to a very limited gene pool? Would that lead to certain genetic diseases as a result? Would this not all end up with the human race contracepted into extinction? Scary scary stuff.

What is most frightening is that some people would actually think this is a good idea, enought to do some research on it.

 

[cathgal]

What is most frightening is that some people would actually think this is a good idea, enought to do some research on it.

If they think it’s a good idea, they should do it on themselves. Don’t worry about others.