The Vatican today called coronavirus vaccines “morally acceptable,” even though “cell lines from aborted fetuses were used,” a recently controversial theory that has been partially rejected by science.
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The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a note today, approved by Pope Francis, in which it takes a position on the debate on whether the various vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus were developed using abortion cell lines.
In this regard, he emphasizes that when “ethically sound” vaccines are not available, it is “morally acceptable to use vaccines against it.”a Covid-19 who used aborted cell lines and fetuses in their research and production process. ”
The reason for this position of the Congregation, led by the Spanish Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, is that the cooperation between those who use vaccines and the “evil” of abortion from which these cells come is “distant”.
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Moreover, the moral duty to avoid such passive cooperation “is not mandatory” if there is a serious danger “such as the spread, otherwise unstoppable, of a serious pathogen, in this case the spread of the pandemic” of the coronavirus creates covid-19.
The Vatican, which had already ruled on the issue in 2005, emphasized in any case that this position “cannot in itself constitute a legitimation, not even an indirect one, of the practice of abortion”.
And, in the same way, it concluded that the use of these vaccines “does not imply and should not imply in any way the moral approval of the use of cell lines from aborted fetuses”. He therefore called on pharmaceutical companies and healthcare organizations to “produce, approve, distribute and deliver vaccines. ethically acceptable that it does not create problems of conscience, neither for the medical staff, nor for the vaccinated ones.
The Vatican acknowledges that this issue “is usually at the center of persistent public debate” and some anti-abortion sectors, bishops, experts and Catholic associations have raised “doubts” about the morality of these remedies.
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In Spain, for example, Cardinal and Archbishop of Valencia Antonio Cañizares said in June last year that “the devil exists in the middle of a pandemic, trying to conduct vaccine research” and that one of them “is made from aborted fetal cells. “.
In those days, social networks were filled with messages of this type, warning of the presence of tissues from a human fetus among the components of the preparation AstraZeneca against COVID-19, although the Holy See does not specifically refer to a company.
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However, vaccines are not made with fetal abortion tissues, but in some cases use laboratory-created cells of distant human origin, that of two fetuses aborted in the 1960s.
Vaccine experts deny that they drugs transports tissues from human fetuses taken from an abortion and specifies the use of laboratory-derived cell cultures whose human origin dates back to the 1960s in Sweden and the United Kingdom.
In the specific case of the AstraZeneca vaccine against covid-19, the chimpanzee adenovirus was used and tested on human cell lines that are not part of the ingredients.
The scientists who produce the vaccines do not work with original genetic material, but instead use cell lines created by culturing, copying and growing cells taken from human tissues long after they have been obtained.
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The Advisory Committee on Vaccines (CAV) of the Spanish Pediatric Association (AEP) categorically denied the use of aborted cells for antigenic preparations in its article “Vaccines, aborted fetal cells and other irrational theories” of 18 June.
It’s not the first time Vatican defends this type of vaccine, but its Pontifical Academy for Life has defended the “legality of the use” of these means if there is no alternative, in a 2005 text entitled “Moral reflections on vaccines prepared from aborted human fetal cells.”
EFE