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# The Family
## The Family and Personhood
Just like an object of art—composed of color, line, texture, shape, and form—humans are designed with elements that are essential to our nature. And each of these elements is under God’s authority—life, marriage, sexuality, and gender. We find His perfect design in Genesis 1:27-28, also known as the Doctrine of *Imago Dei* (which is Latin for image of God).
What we are witnessing everywhere today is a direct attack on these design elements and their central structure: The family. Any attempt to separate, twist, or alter any of these design elements is an attempt to usurp God’s authority. This is nothing less than intentional corruption of the very nature of God’s wholistic design for the human person; the stripping away of meaning, function, and purpose.
God created marriage to be the context for our sexuality, for child-bearing and child-raising, and for intimate, passionate enjoyment within this sacred covenant. God created two genders, not a continuum. He created them with distinctions that reflect His image differently and fit them for marriage to each other. Confusion about this design comes from the culture, not from the Creator. And not because there is no absolute truth, but because sin has corrupted everything. The chaos and brokenness in our culture today is not because God’s design is flawed, but because we are actively rebelling against it.
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# Vaccine Ethics
## The Personhood Alliance's official position on vaccine ethics
The Personhood Alliance’s official position on vaccine ethics is a culmination of 2 months of committee work, which included affiliate representatives from eight states, both Catholic and evangelical, and independent physician reviewers. The committee’s recommendation was unanimously approved by the Personhood Alliance’s national board of directors.
For questions or clarification, please contact us at info@personhood.org.
## Summary of vaccine ethics resources
The following documents, articles, and resources are available to the public regarding the Personhood Alliance’s official position on vaccine ethics:
* An updated  for employees and college students (post- FDA approval)
* A  for employees and college students (includes language relating to the experimental nature of the vaccines, prior to FDA approval)
* The Charlotte Lozier Institute’s current, fully cited chart on 
* A  announcing our official position on vaccine ethics
* A  rebuttal to public criticisms of our position
* The  that YouTube banned, featuring Dr. Alan Moy of the John Paul II Medical Research Institute and Sarah Quale of Personhood Alliance Education
* Article series – COVID-19 vaccine mandates are medically futile, likely illegal, 
* Article: 
## Official position: The 10 foundational tenets
##### WHEREAS:
1. Many vaccines are still produced and/or tested using human diploid cell cultures originally harvested from aborted human beings (hereby referenced as unethical vaccines),   which in turn, has had an impact on families’ access to common, ethically produced vaccines at present; Researchers have developed several new fetal cell lines from aborted human beings to supplement or replace the original fetal cell lines.   
2. Remnants of the DNA of aborted human beings are present in vaccines produced unethically and researchers are currently studying the level of risk to patients receiving these vaccines and the manufacturing protocols necessary to reduce this risk, with guidance from the FDA.
3. Some pharmaceutical companies are moving away from unethical production and testing of vaccines because of public pressure, but more must be done to produce ethical vaccines—that is, derived from animal, plant, synthetic, or human cells from consenting persons—and demand ethical alternatives of more companies, particularly when taxpayer funding is involved.
4. Interdenominational church positions on the use of unethical vaccines may differ,      but our common goal of ethical production and testing of vaccines remains. The Personhood Alliance seeks to find unity among various positions, where biblical personhood and the Word of God can be our foundation and where the rights of persons remain intact—the rights of born persons not to be forced to violate their own bodily integrity and/or moral conscience and the rights of pre-born persons not to be trafficked, commodified, and/or experimented upon without their consent.
5. There are religious arguments that permit and sometimes encourage participation in vaccinations that use the originally aborted fetal cell lines; These arguments include, but are not limited to, the amount of time that has passed since the original abortions and the intent of the original abortions not being for vaccine production.  We find these arguments to be in error. Christians must demand an end to the trafficking and commodification of human beings at all stages of life and must not participate or accept practices that perpetuate and encourage the relationship between abortion, biomedical science, and human trafficking, no matter when that connection was initiated or how long a practice has been socially accepted.
6. The production and testing of vaccines using the remains of aborted human beings, regardless of manner of conception and without their consent, is morally unacceptable and must be opposed. The Personhood Alliance strongly urges the rejection of such vaccines.
7. The right of bodily integrity and the right to refuse medical treatments for moral, religious, health, or other reasons, must remain intact and protected by law when an individual considers whether to vaccinate or not. Bodily integrity emphasizes the importance of self-ownership and self-determination of human beings over their own physical bodies. The Personhood Alliance regards the violation of bodily integrity as unethical and intrusive.
8. Humans are made in the image and likeness of Almighty God (Genesis 1:26-27); We have a duty to honor and care for the body God has given us as a temple of the Holy Spirit (Romans 12:1, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:20, 1 Corinthians 10:31) and therefore, to force or coerce a person to administer a substance into their body against their will is a violation of their biblical personhood. Such mandates and coercions are also a violation of the dignity of the human person, because freedom of religion and freedom of conscience are fundamental to human dignity.
9. Parental decisions regarding vaccinations of children must be determined by the family and not by the State, according to biblical mandate (Romans 13:1-7) and legal precedent;  the family and the Church are legitimate authorities distinct from the civil magistrate and as such, the Personhood Alliance rejects the subordination of the family and Church to the State in these matters.
10. Threats to religious freedom, as well as compelled speech,  in relation to forced or coerced vaccinations,  are already a reality in several states.       The Personhood Alliance is seeing increasing trends toward mandated vaccines with little to no exemptions for moral or religious objection. We stand against these Constitutional violations. The Christian conscience, bodily integrity, and the personhood of the human being must be protected.
##### On the basis of these 10 points, BE IT RESOLVED that:
The production of a vaccine or any medical therapy derived from the remains of a human being intentionally killed is wholly unethical and should be made unlawful. The Personhood Alliance affirms the inalienable right to life of pre-born human beings, regardless of the manner of conception, and thus, their right not to be trafficked, commodified, and/or experimented upon. The Personhood Alliance also affirms the rights of all people to refuse medical treatment and to reject violations of their and their family members’ bodily integrity, moral conscience, and Constitutional protections through forced or coerced vaccines.
##### Be it FURTHER RESOLVED that:
The Personhood Alliance affirms that, while the family, the Church, and the State have distinct spheres of authority, the State is subordinate to the family and the Church in matters of vaccination. Therefore, we acknowledge that Christians of all stations have a duty to reject unethical vaccines, to inform others of the connection between abortion, human trafficking, and biomedical science, and to publicly demand that ethical alternatives be produced, tested, and brought to market by pharmaceutical companies and public health officials.
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