The HEK 293 cell line was obtained at a time when the only abortions allowed were to save the life of the mother. The cell line is derived from stem cells, not from organs.
The cell line is used for the testing of almost every single drug, be it Aspirin, HCQ or ivermectin. If you try to get a religious exemption because of the HEK cell line, employers now ask if you take any other medicine - if you say yes you lose the argument.
HEK literally stands for "Human Embryonic Kidney." It was performed in Holland, which, although wasn't legal, was pretty liberal about the subject in the 1970s.
The difference with one of the medications you mentioned, Aspirin, is it was not used in the creation of said drug - the drug having been first synthesized in 1853 from Medowsweet. The same argument goes for things like Tums - just because someone picked up a piece of chalk 10 billion years after it was created and tested it with some new method doesn't change the fact that it was created long before fetal cell testing was available.
HCQ was first available in 1934, again - long before cell testing. Ivermectin is new enough that it probably was created with the help of fetal cells.
Holland legalized abortion in the mid 1980s, in the 1970s people still went to church on Sundays and the only legal reason for abortion was medical, when either the fetus or the mother would not survive otherwise.
Some vaccines were developed without the cell lines, but then the FDA or external labs made their own tests with HEK 293 cells. This list is from the Charlotte Lozier Institute, they are pro-life: https://lozierinstitute.org/update-covid-19-vaccine-candidates-and-abortion-derived-cell-lines/ * AstraZeneca is really bad, they use HEK 293 even for production * J&J is really bad, they use PER.C6 even for production * Novavax was good until an external institute made an test with HEK 293 * Moderna was good until the FDA provided HEK 293 for additional tests * Pfizer/Biontec seems to be good, but most likely somebody made tests that were not found yet.
There are many reasons to reject the vaccines, but if people use tests by external labs as the reason, then all the later testing the FDA made with established drugs disqualifies these drugs too. This is why employers ask now about the use of Tylenol, Aspirin, Motrin, Ibuprofen, Pepto Bismol, Tums, and Benadryl: https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/employer-seeking-religious-exemption-vaccine-mandate.html
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