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.
View Full PostHost 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.
View Full PostThanks 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?
View Full PostFr. 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."
View Full PostUnder 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.
View Full PostHe 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.
View Full PostIn the first video podcast of our Bioethics series, Dr. Ted Furton of the National Catholic Bioethics Center discusses Catholic bioethical research issues, including immunizations derived from aborted tissue cell lines, developing a COVID19 vaccine, and stem cell research.
View Full PostA medical professional has been fired for objecting to certain medical procedures on the grounds of her Catholic faith. Worryingly, she was not fired from a secular hospital, but from a Catholic healthcare system— one that purports to follow Catholic teaching on bioethical issues.
View Full PostHe 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.
View Full PostThe Democrat party has nominated Joe Biden as its Presidential candidate and he has chosen California senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. For information on “what Catholics should know” about the Biden platform (and by extension the Democrat platform), click here. For information on “what Catholics should know” about Harris’ philosophy and voting record, click here. For Catholic perspectives on Harris, click here, here, here, and here.
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