Responding to “the increasingly heated rhetoric and even violence associated with the vaccine mandate debates,” the National Catholic Bioethics Center said on August 17 that “the Church encourages people to receive vaccination for COVID-19, even though the currently available vaccines in the US have a remote connection to abortion through the use of certain cell lines.
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CWN Editor s Note: “Do Catholics have a moral duty to decline an inoculation if it was unethically produced using a cell line that came from an abortion? The short answer is ‘no,’” writes Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, director of education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center.
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