Pfizer has announced a new COVID-19 vaccine with 90% efficiency – but were fetal cell lines involved? Joseph Meaney, Ph.D., president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, answers our questions.
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Even if the cocktail of antibodies received by the president had been manufactured, not in hamster cells, but in cells derived from an abortion that happened decades earlier, it still would be ethically permissible for the president to receive that drug. He would not commit a sin by receiving the medical treatment; the sin was rather committed by those who originally raided the corpse of the aborted child or established corporate policies to use abortion-derived cells, rather than alternatives. Individual end users have no direct causal connection to those wrongful decisions made previously by others.
In this episode we’re talking about the ethics of a COVID-19 vaccine with Dr. John Di Camillo a staff ethicist at The National Catholic Bioethics Center. Dr. Di Camillo has been a full-time staff ethicist at The National Catholic Bioethics Center since 2011. His work includes moral analyses of Catholic health care affiliations and of health insurance plans and claims. He provides ethics education and consultation services to individuals and organizations.
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Host Kathy Kuhns is joined by Dr. Joseph Meaney of the National Catholic Bioethics Center to discuss abortion and the fundamental contradictions of pro-choice ideology on Pro Life Berks.
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Thanks to REGN-COV2 antibody combination therapy, developed and manufactured by Regeneron and made famous by President Trump, moral questions about the use of abortion-derived cell lines abound. Is REGN-COV2 a morally tainted product? If so, would it be wrong to use it?
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Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, director of education and ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, agreed with the company's stance, saying in an email to CNS the drug is manufactured in hamster cells, "not cells derived from human abortions."
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Under certain criteria established by the Vatican, it is allowable, said Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, a Catholic bioethicist. However, he also noted that taking such a drug should be avoided.
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He says that although the Vatican has stated that Catholics can, in good conscience, accept those vaccines, they should make their objections known of the use of those types of cells.
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