Abortion and Autism

It seems that a reasonable link can be inferred between the use of aborted fetal tissues in the preparation of certain vaccines and the massive spike in autism since 1988.  As a father and a Catholic, I have agonized over the question of vaccination, not because of the supposed link to autism, but because of the use of aborted fetal tissue in the cultivation of certain vaccines.  My wife and I try to be both moral and responsible with with regards to our children's vaccinations, and so we always ask for any vaccines that are not made with aborted fetal tissues.  I wish that I was surprised by the fact that so few doctors even know that aborted fetal tissue is used in several of the major vaccines, but I really am not.  Anyway, the USCCB made it clear that we, as parents, have a responsibility to see our children vaccinated, but also have a responsibility to make every effort to avoid using illicitly created vaccines.  We do this, but sometimes we are still forced to use tainted vaccines.

I always thought that the mercury issue was a red herring, but I did wonder why there appeared to be a such a strong coincidence with autism and vaccination.

Well, I have to say that this news about the correlation betweeen autism and abortion is really not surprising.  From the perspective of natural law, it makes sense that there would be such consequences for violating the natural order like this.  This is not to say that God is punishing children who get vaccinated, or even that God is indirectly punishing the scientists that engineered these vaccines, but that there are always severe consequences for violating the natural law... Sadly, I am not surprised that the consequence here is so terrible.