As you know, this is not a new issue. Given that CoGforLife @COG_forLife was founded in Florida, supporting parents who want to avoid any involvement with abortion-derived cell lines (ADCL) in their children's medications has been central to our mission from the very beginning. Debi, our founder, met with bishops on numerous occasions, provided them with extensive documentation, and worked directly with parents seeking ethical alternatives. She even assisted families in traveling to Japan so their children could receive ethically produced vaccines and remain eligible to attend Catholic schools. For more than 25 years, we have pursued every reasonable avenue to address this issue, including efforts to import ethical alternatives and restore access to single-dose products that Merck discontinued. Throughout that time, we have witnessed considerable debate, finger-pointing, and rhetoric, yet very little meaningful progress. This is not the Catholic way. The 2005 Pontifical Academy for Life (PAFL) document stated that the use of these ADCL-dependent vaccines could be tolerated on a temporary basis. Twenty-one years can hardly be considered temporary. When this issue first arose, many of us were making decisions for our own children. Today, it affects our grandchildren and, in some cases, even our great-grandchildren. This situation can be resolved by fulfilling our communal responsibility to secure access to ethical alternatives. That responsibility does not rest solely with CoGforLife. It is shared by parents, medical professionals, and Church leaders. Across the country, thousands of parents and healthcare providers are waiting for ethical options to become available, including many in Florida, and that number continues to grow. Will we remain complacent and wait another 21 years for ethical options? Can we continue to tolerate Pharma's satisfaction with these repulsive, tainted vaccines? Or are we going to work together charitably to find the solution? Let us move beyond debating this issue on social media and engage in the meaningful conversation it deserves, guided by fraternity, charity, and mutual respect. Our faith calls us to nothing less, in fact, it demands it. @ThomasWenski @FLSurgeonGen @FlaCathBps

We’ve taken more than 20 concrete actions to advance human-based research and reduce unnecessary animal testing. Now, we’re putting that work in full view. Our new webpage gives the American people one place to track our actions, measure our progress, and hold us accountable for results.

BREAKING: The parents of the Maine student in our religious exemption lawsuit have now been threatened with truancy charges by the school district, even though it was the school that expelled the child for being unvaccinated due to his religious beliefs! Maine is taking tyranny to another level.

No dog chose to end up in a shelter. Every single one of them was let down by a human.

Under @POTUS and @SecKennedy's leadership, @HHSGov is moving toward a new era of biomedical solutions to reduce reliance on animal testing.

Pope Leo states the church "categorically rejects" abortion.

Baby Samuel was aborted at 16 weeks and survived. He was left to die. He survived for 30 minutes while sucking his thumb for comfort. “No-one picked him up, wrapped him or gave him any medical care to alleviate his pain and suffering.” “He was perfectly healthy prior to his abortion.” This is not healthcare. This is cruelty.

“Because of WCW investigations, progress has been made in ending cruel animal experiments.” 📰 EXCLUSIVE – WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT REVEALS OAK HILL GENETICS SHIPPED OVER 1,500 HOUND DOGS FOR EXPERIMENTATION INCLUDING TO LABS FUNDED BY NIH September 22, 2026 By @hannerz123_ Knudsen, @BreitbartNews “Oak Hill Genetics shipped more than 1,500 hound-mix dogs for experimentation over the past 18 months, including to labs still funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to Freedom of Information Act records obtained by White Coat Waste Project (WCW) and first reviewed by Breitbart News. Between January 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, Oak Hill, which breeds lab dogs – shipped 1,518 hound-mix dogs to laboratories for experimentation. This included puppies as young as three months. Recipients included universities still receiving money from the National Institutes of Health, funded by taxpayers. Further, the dogs shipped to these labs – at least 44 across the nation – were used to study a range of issues, including but not limited to heart failure, strokes, and nerve injuries. According to WCW, a November 2025 inspection found that Oak Hill Genetics still had 1,200 puppies and dogs in its possession. The taxpayer watchdog identified several recipients of Oak Hill Genetics dogs, used for cruel NIH-backed experiments, including the University of Utah, which received $12 million for heart experiments on dogs. The dogs were subjected to having their ‘arteries tied off’ and were given pacemakers. According to WCW, ‘the animals are subjected to electric shocks before being killed.’ It received 50 dogs for experimentation from Oak Hill Genetics from January 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026. Similarly, Ohio State University conducted experiments involving putting pacemakers in dogs and making their hearts beat 600 beats per minute, causing heart damage. It received 19 dogs for experimentation in the same timeframe. Washington University in St. Louis is another recipient of these dogs for NIH-funded experiments, which include one involving researchers slicing the dogs’ laryngeal nerves, implanting stem cells, then killing the dogs to harvest their larynxes and muscles. Washington University received 32 of these dogs for experimentation over that 18-month period. The investigation found that American Preclinical Services received 418 dogs in this time frame, while the University of Southern California received six, Johns Hopkins University received 23, and Animal Blood Resources Int. received 41. Despite this, because of WCW investigations, progress has been made in ending cruel animal experiments. As Breitbart News reported, ‘A years-long investigation by medical watchdog group White Coat Waste revealed that the NIH killed over 2,100 beagles in ‘brutal septic shock experiments’ since 1986.’ WCW uncovered other experiments, including former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci’s division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding an experiment at Kansas State University involving hundreds of ticks feasting on puppies injected with mutant bacteria. The Trump administration has worked to end such experimentation, announcing the closure of the agency’s last remaining beagle experiment lab last year following revelation after revelation of the cruel experiments conducted under Fauci’s leadership. This discovery comes in the wake of Ridglan Farms closing for good and the ‘safe rescue of 2,115 beagles.’”