Everyone should support abortion-free vaccines

by Mark Christopher Navin, PhD; Michael Redinger, MD, MA Some leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates—including those being developed by Oxford University/AstraZeneca and Moderna—use fetal cell lines derived from abortions. Other candidate COVID-19 vaccines do not, for example those being developed by Sanofi Pasteur and GlaxoSmithKline. We do not know which, if any, of the candidate COVID-19 vaccines will be successful. Prominent Catholic and pro-life voices in the US and elsewhere have objected to the development of vaccines with materials derived from aborted fetuses, but few people outside of these circles seem to think the abortion issue is relevant to decisions about how to fund and develop vaccines.…
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