The Ethics and Public Policy Center has organized the following statement from leading pro-life Catholic scholars, including EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson, EPPC board member and Princeton professor Robert P. George, and EPPC Fellow and Notre Dame professor O. Carter Snead, along with two professors at pontifical universities in Rome and other U.S.-based scholars, to explain why it is morally acceptable for pro-life citizens to receive any of the COVID-19 vaccines currently available
The past year of suffering under the onslaught of COVID-19 has brought with it numerous ethical questions, and the advent of effective vaccines for COVID is no different. Foremost among the questions for those of us who are committed to defending the intrinsic equal dignity of all human beings from conception to natural death are these: in accepting any of the vaccines on offer, is one in any way endorsing or contributing to the practice of abortion, or is one in any way showing disrespect for the rema
Echoes Pro-life Catholic scholars on the moral acceptability of receiving COVID-19 vaccines Published 3/12/2021
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Catholic scholars: Covid vaccines can be received without fear of moral culpability for abortion – Catholic World Report
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Catholic Scholars Reassert ‘Moral Acceptability of Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines’
6 Mar 2021
A team of prominent Catholic scholars and bioethicists have published an analysis “to explain why it is morally acceptable for pro-life citizens to receive any of the COVID-19 vaccines currently available.”
In their analysis, published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), the scholars assert that the acceptance of any of the coronavirus vaccines currently on offer does not endorse or contribute to the practice of abortion, and nor does it show “disrespect for the remains of an unborn human being.”
“While there is a technical causal linkage between each of the current vaccines and prior abortions of human persons,” they state, “we are all agreed, that connection does not mean that vaccine use contributes to the evil of abortion or shows disrespect for the remains of unborn human beings.”