Isn't It Already a Crime to Kill an Aborted Baby That Survives

How Vaccines Are Produced

All vaccines undergo several stages of development before they are approved for public apply past the United States Food and Drug Administration's (FDA'southward) Middle for Biologics Evaluation and Inquiry or by the United nations Globe Health Organization (WHO). The process begins with the exploratory phase, then proceeds to the pre-clinical stage, clinical development (initial testing, testing on intended target group, and large-calibration testing), regulatory review and blessing, and finally manufacturing and distribution, always with continuous quality command during the entire sequence.

There are three classes of vaccines in utilize today that have profound moral implications because some of them use material from aborted preborn children during their testing and manufacturing phases:

1. Vaccines which use no fetal tissue during whatever phase of their development, testing and production. These are always upstanding to use.
2. Vaccines that used fetal tissue from so-called "immortal" cell lines that were derived from babies which were aborted long agone. These tin exist used nether certain circumstances, equally described later in this article.
3. Vaccines that are currently obtained from abortion clinics as part of the lucrative market in fetal organs and cells. These are never permissible to apply.

COVID-nineteen Vaccines

Outset, we must consider the course of vaccines which immunize confronting COVID-19. As of March 2021, the Charlotte Lozier Establish lists about fifty vaccines of several unlike types in actual use or undergoing various stages of testing.

Nigh twenty of these vaccines use material from aborted babies during their development, production and testing phases. On the other manus, this means that more than half of the available COVID-19 vaccines do not resort to the use of material from aborted babies at all.

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This is a summary of the latest information regarding the ethical suitability of the 3 classes of COVID-19 vaccines produced in the Us:

Vaccines using no fetal tissue (ethical):

• VLA 2001 (Valneva and Dynavax)
• VSVΔG/V590 (Merck and IAVI)
• KBP-201 (Kentucky BioProcessing)
• Baculovirus plus AS03 (Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline)
• T-VIVA-nineteen (Sorrento).

Vaccines using "immortal" fetal cell lines (some cell lines exercise use fetal tissue in confirmatory lab tests, and some do not):

• UB-612 (COVAXX and United Biomedical)
• mRNA-1273 (Moderna/NIH)
• NVX-CoV2373 (Novavax)
• LUNAR-CoV19/ARCT-021 (Arcturus Therapeutics)
• BNT-162a1,b1,b2,b3,c2 (Pfizer and BioNTech)
• MRT5500 (Sanofi Pasteur and Translate Bio)
• INO-4800 (Inovio Pharma).

Vaccines using "fresh" fetal tissue (unethical):

• AdCOVID (Altimmune)
• AZD1222 (AstraZeneca)
• hAd5 S-Fusion+N-ETSD (ImmunityBio and NantKwest)
• Ad26.COV2-Southward (Janssen and Johnson & Johnson)
• VXA-CoV2-i (Vaxart)
• PittCoVacc (Academy of Pittsburgh)

Vaccines against Other Diseases

In that location is as well the class of vaccines against other diseases that are produced under the names MRC-5 and WI-38. The latter include Varivax for chicken‑pox, Meruvax II for rubella (German measles), and Havrix and Vaqta for Hepatitis A.¹

The MRC-5 and WI-38 cell lines originated from babies aborted in 1961. Their cells were regenerated by Merck and other corporations and are used in the Varivax and Meruvax Ii vaccines. These cell lines are technically "immortal," because technicians can sustain them in a laboratory indefinitely under the proper conditions.^two

Our Moral Obligation

There is some confusion today among pro‑life people (peculiarly parents) regarding the morality of using vaccines that may have been produced using the tissue of aborted preborn babies.

Currently, at that place are 2 particular areas of concern involving vaccines that were tested and/or developed in office using fetal tissue derived from aborted babies who died decades ago and whose tissue is regenerated in laboratories.

In June 2005, the Pontifical Academy for Life published a certificate entitled Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Aborted Human Fetuses, which answers most questions that Catholics might have nearly the morality of using vaccines that are derived from the jail cell lines of aborted preborn children.

The certificate recognizes the great value of eradicating diseases that have plagued mankind for millennia, calling this a "milestone" of mod medical technology. The Catholic Church building has always supported advances in all areas of medical technology then long as they adhere to moral standards. Nonetheless, over the by half-century, many morally questionable ― and outright evil ― practices have surfaced. Sure procedures that try to derive good from evil acts are ethically murky and create dubiousness, such as producing lifesaving vaccines from a process (abortion) that ends life.

The primary question is:How closely do vaccine users cooperate in the evil of ballgame?

There are more often than not three degrees of cooperation regarding the manufacture, sale and apply of vaccines originating with aborted babies.

• To begin with, those who procure tissue from aborted babies to produce a vaccine from it are guilty of formally cooperating in abortion past approving of and taking advantage of the very deed of ballgame itself. Some current‑day tissue collectors cooperate so closely with abortion mills that they are often inside the abortuary at the fourth dimension the abortions are being performed so they can bundle and preserve the organs immediately. They are every bit guilty as the boyfriend who pays for the ballgame, the friend who drives her to the abortion mill, or the abortionist who performs the actual process.
• Somewhat removed from this direct cooperation in ballgame are those who market place, advertise and distribute the resulting vaccines. Simply these activities are as well morally illicit, considering they "could contribute in encouraging the performance of other voluntary abortions, with the purpose of producing such vaccines" (Moral Reflections, Department half dozen).
• Finally, in that location are the doctors and patients who use these vaccines, even though they know about their origin. They are permitted to use the vaccines when no alternative is bachelor, in lodge to avoid "significant risks to their health" and "indirectly the [wellness of the] population as a whole." However, this causes the "moral compulsion of the conscience of parents, who are forced to choose to act against their conscience or otherwise to put the health of their children and of the population every bit a whole at risk. This is an unjust alternative choice, which must be eliminated equally shortly as possible" (Moral Reflections, Summary).

The document Moral Reflections describes our moral duty to do more than just passively resist evil; we must actively fight information technology. We are all obliged to "oppose by all ways the vaccines which practise not yet have morally adequate alternatives, creating pressure then that alternative vaccines are prepared."

Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Director of Education for the National Catholic Bioethics Center, gives us some guidance on what specific actions we can take. He says that parents can

…ask their health-care providers for accurate information detailing whether particular vaccines were adult using jail cell lines of illicit origin. This engages the health-intendance profession in a discussion that information technology very much needs to get party to. Parents can make known their disagreement by writing to the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the vaccines.³

The Upstanding "Bottom Line"

In summary, conscientious pro‑lifers are forced to weigh their ain children's wellness against participating in an illicit and immoral procedure that has already killed preborn children. This question is more prominent now than it e'er has been before, what with the spread of COVID-xix and urgent calls for mandatory universal vaccination.Dignitas Personae makes the ethical course of action articulate:

Therefore, it needs to be stated that in that location is a duty to refuse to use such "biological material" even when there is no close connection between the researcher and the actions of those who performed [the abortion]. This duty springs from the necessity to remove oneself, within the area of one'due south ain research, from a gravely unjust legal situation and to affirm with clarity the value of human life. (Dignitas Personae ¶35, emphasis in the original)

Fortunately, nosotros also take the skilful opinion of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, which confirms the guidelines in Dignitas Personae:</emi

In addition, the use of these prison cell lines, fifty-fifty for the laudable purpose of a COVID-19 vaccine, is a cause of serious theological scandal. Appealing to skillful aims and an "urgent need" will foster the deeper penetration of unethical research and development into medicine, politics, police, and culture. Dignitas Personae warns against this: "Any appearance of acceptance would in fact contribute to the growing indifference to, if not the approval of, such actions in certain medical and political circles." (Dignitas Personae ¶35).^four

In summary, and so, nosotros must continue in listen that at that place are vaccines available confronting COVID-19 and other diseases that are not produced with the use of aborted fetal material. In that location is no moral obstacle to using such vaccines.

Yet, if an upstanding culling is only non available, it is upwards to the individual to use his or her conscience and counterbalance the benefits against the costs of using such a vaccine. It is entirely permissible to reject the use of a vaccine that is adult, tested or manufactured with the use of textile from aborted babies. No civil or church authorization has the moral power to hogtie us to accept a vaccine, although recent developments seem to indicate that many "progressives" favor forcible vaccination of religious people against COVID-xix.

In whatsoever instance, whether or not we receive a vaccine that depends upon aborted babies, we must continue to speak out forcefully against the practise of manufacturing and using vaccines of any type with illicit origins.

Sources of Current Information

Anyone wishing to be more than informed on the complex issue of vaccinations can refer to several reliable pro-life sources. For technical information, see the website of the organization Children of God for Life, which was founded by Debi Vinnedge in 1999. Then at that place is AVM Biotechnology, founded in 2008 by Dr. Theresa Deisher, who holds 23 biotechnology patents.

For the opinions of leading Cosmic bioethicists, see the website of the National Catholic Bioethics Eye.

A general list of licit and illicit vaccines is published in card form and on the Cyberspace by the Sound Pick Pharmaceutical Institute.

2 publications that deal directly with COVID-19 vaccines:

• Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. "Note on the Morality of Using Some Anti-COVID-19 Vaccines." Dec 21, 2020.
• National Cosmic Bioethics Eye. "Points to Consider on COVID-nineteen Vaccines and Ballgame-Derived Cell Lines." March thirty, 2021.

Moral Alternatives to Aborted Fetal Vaccines

COVID-19:

• AG0301-COVID19 and AG0302-COVID19 [Japan]
• BBIBP-CorV [China]
• BBV152 and COVAXIN [India]
• CVnCoV [Germany]
• IIBR-100 [Israel]
• New Crown COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 [Communist china]
• T-VIVA-19 [USA]
• ZyCov-D [India]

Hepatitis-B Only: Recombivax HB (Merck) and Engerix B (GSK)

Polio-Containing Vaccines:

• IPOL (Sanofi)
• IPOL+Any DTaP (GSK, Sanofi)
• ImovaxPolio (Sanofi)*
• InfanrixHexa Polio+HiB (GSK)
• Pediacel Polio+DTaP+HiB (Sanofi)
• Pediatrix Polio+DTaP+Hepatitis-B (Sanofi)

Rabies: RabAvert (Chiron/Novartis)

Vaccines with Aborted Fetal Tissue

Chickenpox/Varicella: Varivax (Merck)

Chickenpox+MMR: ProQuad (Merck)

COVID-nineteen:

• COV2-South (Janssen/Johnson & Johnson)
• AdCOVID (Altimmune)
• AZD1222 (AstraZeneca)
• Ad5-nCoV (CanSino)
• ChAdOX1nCoV-19 (AstraZeneca)
• Gam-COVID-Vac (Gamaleya)
• hAd5 S-Fusion + NETSD (ImmunityBio)
• PittCoVacc (University of Pittsburgh)
• Sputnik Five (Gamaleya)
• V591/TMV-083 (Institut Pasteur/Themis/Merck)
• VXA-CoV2-ane (Vaxart)

Hepatitis-A based: Vaqta (Merck); Havrix (GSK); Twinrix Hepatitis A+B (GSK)

Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR): MMR II (Merck)

Polio: Poliovax (Sanofi) and Pentacel Polio+DTaP+HiB (Sanofi)

Rabies: Imovax (Sanofi)*

Shingles: Zostavax (Merck)

*ImovaxPolio [moral] is for polio, and Imovax [aborted fetal material] is for rabies.

Endnotes

[one] Vaccines that apply the homo prison cell line WI-38, derived from aborted preborn children, include the following:

• Rubella vaccines Meruvax© (Merck), Rudivax© (Sanofi Pasteur, France), and Ervevax© (RA 27/3) (GlaxoSmithKline, Belgium)
• Rubella/measles vaccines M‑R‑VAX© (Merck) and Rudi‑Rouvax© (AVP, France)
• Rubella/mumps vaccine Biavax© (Merck)
• Measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccines M‑One thousand‑R© 2 (Merck), R.O.R.© and Trimovax© (Sanofi Pasteur, France), and Priorix© (GlaxoSmithKline, Belgium)

Vaccines that use the human cell line MRC-5, too derived from aborted preborn children, include the following:

• Hepatitis A vaccines VAQTA (Merck) and HAVRIX (GlaxoSmithKline)
• Chicken pox vaccine Varivax© (Merck) (too uses WI‑38)
• Poliomyelitis vaccine Poliovax© (Aventis‑Pasteur, France)
• Rabies vaccine Imovax© (Aventis‑Pasteur, French republic)
• Smallpox vaccine Air conditioning AM 1000 (Acambis)

[ii] Experimental Cell Research 37:614‑636, 1965; Nature 227:168‑170, 1970; May 10, 1995 printing release entitled "Aborted Babies Used as Source for Rubella Vaccine." Ohio Parents for Vaccine Safety.

[3] J.J. Ziegler. "Dignitas Personae and Babyhood Vaccinations."Catholic World Report, May 14, 2011.

[4] National Catholic Bioethics Heart. "COVID-xix Vaccines: Promote Life and Health Without Undermining Human Dignity." Apr eight, 2020.

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