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This discussion assists conscience by clarifying a number of issues related to the production and use of abortion-derived vaccines.
Abortion, Vaccines, and Moral Imagination 04/19/2021 at 1:09 AM Posted by Kevin Edward White By Mark Perkins, Public Discourse, April 13, 2021 Scholars who advocate receiving the vaccinations for COVID-19 should not minimize or brush aside concerns that those vaccines were produced with the help of abortion. Facing the problem more fully should not rule out vaccination, but it will help us better understand the depths of our entanglement in this late-modern culture of death. Christians today confront a variety of novel and profound challenges to the Church’s moral teachings, and they...
(Image: Daniel Schludi/Unsplash.com) Objection 1. It seems there is a moral obligation, for one is obligated to care for one’s own body and to care likewise for the body of the neighbor, who by divine command is to be loved as oneself. Now, vaccination may render one’s own body less likely to succumb to a viral infection and less likely to pass on such an infection to the potential harm of the neighbor. Therefore one ought to be vaccinated. As Vitoria says ( On the Law of War, Q. 2, art. 2), “any person who has the power to prevent his neighbor’s danger or loss is obliged to do so.”
By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Mar 09, 2021 On March 5th, the Ethics and Public Policy Center issued a statement by pro-life Catholic scholars to clarify the The Moral Acceptability of Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines. The strength of this statement lies in its clear presentation of the exact nature and extent of the (very remote) connection of the vaccines with abortion. The weakness is that the statement chooses not to address the moral obligation, if one chooses to be vaccinated, of making clear one’s opposition to the use of immorally-derived cell lines...