Vaccines shouldn’t have abortion ties
In response to a May 13 letter regarding vaccines: It is a well-documented fact that the three COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the U.S. were produced and/or tested on abortion-derived cell lines. Even the pharmaceutical companies admit this. After sincere deliberation, many Catholics and other Christians have chosen NOT to take these vaccines out of love and a sense of justice towards preborn children and out of concern for the souls of abortionists, researchers and others involved in the trafficking of body parts from aborted human beings. We have the moral right to refuse these ethically-tainted vaccines. There is no need to use aborted children to develop vaccines or other drugs. We should all be speaking out in support of the ethical vaccines and treatments being developed. In fact, the U.S. bishops have sample letters to pharmaceutical companies posted on their website (usccb.org) to do just that.
Debra Braun
St. Agnes, St. Paul
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