The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF) has stated that it is “morally acceptable” [1] 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 [2] 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.