How politicized has vaccination become? Thousands of U.S. troops are disobeying orders that they get shots

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Laboratory-grown fetal cell lines — obtained from a few abortions decades ago — are used in the production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and helped in the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, though none of the vaccines contain such cells. The National Defense Authorization Act that President Biden signed Dec. 27 says that “any discharge of a service member on the sole basis that the member failed to obey a lawful order to receive a vaccine for COVID-19 shall be an honorable discharge, or a general discharge under honorable conditions.” Sampson, who said she received an honorable discharge, wasn’t the only cadet at West Point to give up on a military career because of the vaccine mandate.