According to Noubar Afeyan Moderna Co-Founder, decisions made by courts over access to contraceptives and healthcare weaken attempts to fight disease.
He was alluding to efforts to reverse the regulatory approval of the abortion pill and to invalidate important provisions of the Affordable Care Act that requires universal access to preventive healthcare.
Moderna Vaccine Co-Founder Warns Danger
The co-founder of the vaccine manufacturer Moderna has urged US lawmakers and courts to refrain from challenging accepted science and disobeying authorities, warning that doing so runs the danger of causing public misunderstanding and harming people’s health.
In the run-up to the presidential election in 2016, he argued that politicians should embrace research rather than dismissing experts and endorsing pseudoscience that can inflame anti-vaccine sentiment.
He noted that such activities increased a level of ambiguity that would jeopardize scientists’ attempts to discover treatments for human ailments.
Speaking of, a mother recently sobbed as she described how her daughter passed away following a COVID-19 immunization to a Senate committee.
Deborah Hamilton, a mother of two, claimed that the death of her daughter Natalie in March 2022—which she described as a brutal, unnecessary death from a COVID-19 vaccination—had destroyed her life.
Before receiving the Moderna shot as her booster injection in February 2022, she was a healthy 21-year-old with her whole life ahead of her, she said in testimony to a Senate committee looking into two vaccine-related proposals.
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Anti-Vaccination Sentiment
The pharmaceutical sector is growing more concerned that the cultural wars in the US, which hampered efforts to combat the epidemic by stoking anti-vaccination sentiment, are now threatening regulatory chaos by pushing for the outlawing of abortion drugs containing mifepristone.
More than 700 business leaders signed an open letter last month denouncing the Texas federal judge’s decision to revoke the FDA’s more than 20-year-old drug’s regulatory approval.
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