Tissues of aborted on Vaccines

The Vatican declared that using COVID-19 vaccines that used aborted cells have been morally acceptable as long as there were no alternatives or  “in the absence of safe vaccines made from other sources”(National Post Online, 2021; Dyer, 2020). There were at least five of the COVID-19 vaccines that have been approved for human trials that “use one of two human fetal cell lines: HEK-293, a kidney cell line widely used in research and industry that comes from a fetus aborted in about 1972; and PER.C6, a proprietary cell line owned by Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, developed from retinal cells from an 18-week-old fetus aborted in 1985″(America Magazine, 2021). The Vatican through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith granted the moral legitimacy based from the principle of “differing degrees of responsibility of cooperation in evil.” In the face of a grave outbreak, such vaccines “can be used in good conscience with the certain knowledge that does not constitute formal cooperation with the abortion from which the cells used in the production of the vaccines derive.” ”(National Post Online, 2021, Dyer 2020).  the Vatican also noted that while various vaccines might be disseminated in a country, “health authorities do not allow citizens to choose the vaccine with which to be inoculated.” On the other hand, the Vatican and bishops worldwide have been exhorting government and scientists to develop vaccines that have no correlation to abortion.”(America Magazine, 2021). 

To ensure ethical practices, there is a need to research further about bioethics, ideology, and development of policies (Baker et al, 2020).