‘A More Radical Public Witness’ On the Covid Vaccines, by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, March 12, 2021

Yes, you can make a plausible moral argument to justify the acceptance of an abortion-tainted Covid vaccine. But why would you want to?

My colleague Jeff Mirus has argued that the most recent such justification, issued by pro-life Catholics under the auspices of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, fails to emphasize a crucial point: Those who accept the vaccine have a moral obligation to protest the use of tissues derived from aborted children in the development of the vaccines. While I agree on that point, I would also fault the pro-life scholars’ statement for another serious failure: the inability to see the big picture.  ….

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