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Is Catholicism a major religion? The Vatican issued an official statement about the morality of using, administering, allowing and requiring vaccines which inc

• tzs 8y ago
  The document you cite concludes that it is OK for Catholics to use such vaccines on their children if there are no vaccines not derived from such cells available because the moral necessity to protect the health of your children and those they come in contact with outweighs the mild, remote passive material cooperation with abortion doing so provides. That was from 2005. They updated their position in 2017 [1]. The two abortions that provided the cell lines used for vaccines were more than 50 years ago. That removes even that mild passive material cooperation concern: > the cell lines currently in use are very distant from the original abortions and no longer imply that bond of moral cooperation indispensable for an ethically negative evaluation of their use ... > The technical characteristics of the production of the vaccines most commonly used in childhood lead us to exclude that there is a morally relevant cooperation between those who use these vaccines today and the practice of voluntary abortion They also say that there is a "moral obligation to guarantee the vaccination coverage necessary for the safety of others". [1] https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/03/20/vaticans-academy-for-life-encourages-parents-to-vaccinate-children/ https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/03/20/vaticans-academy-for-...