12/22/2020 at 1:44 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
The Pontifical Academy for Life has said that Catholics may use, in a narrowly defined limit, vaccines prepared with cell lines derived from aborted children, but with strong warnings regarding our obligation to protest. Here’s how to demand ethical options in biomedical research.
By Stacy Trasancos, National Catholic Register, December 21, 2020
The 2005 guidance from the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL), “Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared From Cells Derived From Aborted Human Fetuses,” told us to end the practice of using abortion-tainted vaccines and demand ethical alternatives. These same principles are reaffirmed in the new statement the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has released regarding the new COVID-19 vaccines that are now becoming available.
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VATICAN CITY December 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) The Catholic Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has issued a doctrinal note affirming that under specific limited circumstances one may morally cooperate in the evil of abortion through the reception of vaccines tainted in their production or testing with the living cells of children directly killed by abortion several decades ago.
The purpose of the “Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines” is a response to “several requests for guidance regarding the use of vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus” some manifestations of which “employed cell lines drawn from tissue obtained from two abortions,” including one in the 1970s and another of an 18-week-old baby boy in 1985. The CDF also notes that “diverse and sometimes conflicting pronouncements in the mass media by bishops, Catholic associations, and experts” on the question makes such a pronouncement useful.
Print this article Registered nurse Kayla Johnson prepares a coronavirus vaccine at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Mass., December 16, 2020.
(Erin Clark/Reuters Pool) For pro-life Americans, the scientific facts behind the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines’ production should guide their decisions.
Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is now being distributed first to medical workers and vulnerable groups, then to the general public in the United States. Moderna’s product is expected to join it in the pipeline shortly. The beginning of the end is not just in sight: It’s arrived. In time, the daily death counts, shutdowns, mask requirements, virtual events, and other pandemic-imposed restrictions and conditions of life will become a thing of the past.