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The center’s statement added that the novelty of the coronavirus and its vaccines “leave several medical questions unanswered,” which can impede free and informed consent for some persons.
The Catholic Medical Association, a national network of Catholic doctors and health care workers, stated on July 28 that it “opposes mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations as a condition of employment without conscience or religious exemptions.”
During a White House press briefing Wednesday, press secretary Jen Psaki was asked by Owen Jensen of EWTN News Nightly about “ethical concerns” regarding the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson.
Among those who signed the statement are prominent American pro-life activist Abby Johnson, along with Sr. Deirdre “Dede” Byrne, a religious sister, surgeon, and retired army officer.
Which vaccines appear to be most acceptable, in light of the U.S. bishops’ new guidance regarding vaccines that utilized abortion-derived tissues in their development and testing?
COMMENTARY: 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.
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith says that, while in no way endorsing vaccines derived from aborted fetuses, their use is “morally licit” because “the procured abortion from which these cell lines originate is, on the part of those making use of the resulting vaccines, remote.”
Vaccine distribution began in the United States on December 14.
Taking one of those vaccines, said the bishops, “ought to be understood as an act of charity toward the other members of our community.”
Promising ethical vaccines to fight COVID-19 have advanced to the later stages of testing.
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