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Another balanced moral perspective on fetal tissues and Covid vaccines

By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | Dec 11, 2020 Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk of the National Catholic Bioethics Center has produced a balanced and informative column on the use of fetal tissues in Covid vaccines. While he accepts compromises that I am not willing to make, he outlines the moral issues accurately. Two observations about that column: 1. While he concludes that Catholics are not morally obligated to decline the vaccines that will apparently be first available, he does not leap to the opposite conclusion (as someChurchleaders have), and say that Catholics are morally obligated to take the vaccine. There is room for personal judgments, as he explains:

National Catholic Bioethics Center official weighs in on Covid vaccine | News Headlines

December 11, 2020 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. The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.   Sound Off! CatholicCulture.org supporters weigh in. All comments are moderated. To lighten our editing burden, only current donors are allowed to Sound Off. If you are a current donor, log in to see the comment form; otherwise please support our work, and Sound Off!

Why does the Catholic Church object to IVF? It s more complicated than you think

Photo by Ryan Holloway on Unsplash Since the birth of the first “test tube baby” in the United Kingdom in 1978, more than eight million babies conceived through in vitro fertilization fertilizing human eggs in a laboratory and then implanting them into a woman’s uterus have been born, the vast majority of them in Europe and North America. Between 1 and 2 percent of all children born in the United States each year are conceived through in vitro fertilization. For many couples who struggle to conceive naturally, IVF allows them to become parents in a way unimaginable only two generations ago. Who could find fault with that?

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