The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) extends its heartiest congratulations to Patrick E. Kelly, Esq., on his election as the 14th Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization.
Read MoreFather Tad answered call-in questions about bioethics on a January 29, 2021, episode of EWTN’s Catholic Answers Live show. Questions included should Catholics get the Vaccine for COVID-19? What is remote cooperation? Does the COVID-19 vaccine use human embryos in its development? Is this vaccine going to be made mandatory?
Read MoreThe utilization of abortion-derived cell lines in COVID-19 vaccines raises important ethical questions. The NCBC recognizes ethical distinctions among available COVID-19 vaccines based on their utilization of abortion-derived cell lines when all other considerations are equal. Vaccines that do not use abortion-derived cell lines in any phase of design, manufacture, or testing are the best ethical choice if they are reasonably available, safe, and effective. Vaccines that utilize abortion-derived cell lines in a more limited manner, such as for confirmatory testing, are preferable to those that utilize abortion-derived cell lines in more than one phase of development and, in particular, in the manufacturing process.
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