The Vatican called coronavirus vaccines “morally acceptable,” even though they are “used cell lines from aborted fetuses,” a controversial theory recently rejected by science.
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The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith today released a note, approved by Pope Francis, in which it takes a position on the debate as to whether the various vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus were developed using abortion lines.
In this sense, he points out that when ‘ethically flawless’ vaccines are not available, it is’ morally acceptable to use vaccines against them.a Covid-19 who have used cell lines and aborted fetuses in their research and manufacturing process. ”
The reason for this position of the Congregation, led by the Spanish Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, is that the collaboration between those who use vaccines and the “evil” of abortion where these cells come from is “far away”.
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In addition, the moral obligation to avoid such passive cooperation is “ non-binding ” if there is a grave danger “ such as the spread, otherwise unstoppable, of a serious pathogen, in this case the pandemic spread ” of the coronavirus that covid- 19 creates. .
In any case, the Vatican, which spoke out on the matter as early as 2005, stressed that this position “cannot in itself legitimize, even indirectly, the practice of abortion.”
Likewise, it concluded that the use of these vaccines “does not imply in any way the moral approval of the use of cell lines from aborted fetuses.” So he asked pharmaceutical companies and health organizations to “produce, approve, distribute and offer vaccines.” ethically acceptable that they do not cause problems of conscience, neither for the sanitary, nor for the vaccinated “.
The Vatican acknowledges that this issue “is usually at the center of ongoing debates in public opinion” and some anti-abortion sectors, bishops, experts and Catholic associations have expressed “doubts” about the morality of these remedies.
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In Spain, for example, the Cardinal and Archbishop of Valencia, Antonio Cañizares, said last June that “the devil is in the middle of a pandemic researching vaccines,” and that one of them “is made from cells from fetuses. Broken down”.
In these times, social networks are filled with messages of this type, warning of the presence of tissues of a human fetus among the components of the AstraZeneca preparation against COVID-19, although the Holy See does not specifically refer to a company.
A bottle of the vaccine from Pfizer BioNTech./EFE laboratories
However, vaccines are not made with fetal abortion tissues, but in some cases use cells made in the laboratory of distant human origin, those from two fetuses aborted in the 1960s.
Vaccine experts deny this medicines transport human fetal tissues extracted from an abortion and specify that they are used cultures of cells obtained in laboratories of human origin in Sweden and the United Kingdom in the 1960s.
In the specific case of the AstraZeneca vaccine against covid-19, chimpanzee adenovirus has been used which has been tested in human cell lines, which are not part of the ingredients.
The scientists who make the vaccines do not work with original genetic material, but use cell lines created by culturing, copying, and growing cells from human tissues long after they are obtained.
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The Vaccine Advisory Committee (CAV) of the Spanish Pediatric Association (AEP) categorically denied the use of abortion cells for antigen preparations in its June 18 article “Vaccines, Aborted Fetus Cells and Other Irrational Theories”.
It’s not the first time Vatican defends these types of vaccines, but his Pontifical Academy for Life defended “the legitimacy of the use” of these agents when there is no alternative, in a 2005 text entitled “Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Human Fetal Cells”.
EFE