The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF) has stated that it is “morally acceptable” to receive COVID-19 vaccines produced using cell lines that date back to tissue taken from aborted fetuses from decades ago when no alternative is available.
In the note, the CDF says that in countries where vaccines without ethical problems are unavailable to physicians and patients — or where their distribution is more difficult due to special storage or transport conditions — it is “morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process.”
This does not in any way imply a legitimation of the grave evil of the practice of abortion or that there is a moral endorsement of the use of cell lines proceeding from aborted fetuses, the Vatican congregation said.
