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By Martina Moyski, Church Militant - Three Australian senior prelates are urging the government to provide an alternative vaccine for people who object to those made from aborted babies.  In a new letter, Abp. Anthony Fisher (head of the Catholic archdiocese of Sydney), Abp. Makarios (primate of the Greek Orthodox archdiocese of Australia) and Anglican prelate Dr. Glenn Davies asked Prime Minister Scott Morrison to pursue arrangements for vaccines that are not derived from the tissues of aborted babies in order to avoid ethical dilemmas. The letter came after Morrison announced last week that a vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca from aborted baby cells would soon be free for all Australians.  "While we accept that the proposed vaccine may be sufficiently remote from the abortion that occasioned the derivation of the cell-line, we flag to you that any COVID-19 vaccine cultured on a fetal cell-line will raise serious issues of conscience for a proportion of our population," the prelates wrote to the prime minister. "Whether this vaccine is successful or not, it is important that the government d