Vaccines and Aborted Fetal Tissue. The initial experiments of the MMR vaccine involved growing rubella in a cell culture utilizing fibroblasts from the lungs of an aborted caucasian female fetus. Scientists found that the virus, among other viruses, grew well in the cell culture (termed WI-38).
Moral character or character is an evaluation of a particular individual's stable moral qualities. The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of virtues such as empathy, courage, fortitude, honesty, and loyalty, or of good behaviors or habits.
Medical Definition of character. 1  1: one of the attributes or features that make up and distinguish the individual. 2  2: the detectable expression of the action of a gene or group of genes. 3  3: the complex of mental and ethical traits marking and often individualizing a person, group, or nation.