Using Abortion-Derived Vaccines: A Moral Analysis

Abstract

Introduction: Object of is Study “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly,” said Jesus Christ ( John 10:10), who o>ers eternal life through union with him by divine grace. In the words of John Paul II, this is the “Gospel of Life” which proclaims the inherent dignity of each human life “from its very beginning to its end”—a dignity that every person sincerely open to truth and goodness can recognize. All are called to “a@rm the right of every human being to have this primary good respected to the highest degree,” for, the Pope explained, “upon the recognition of this right, every human community and the political community itself are founded.” In the past year (2020–2021), the biological and spiritual life of nearly the entire world has been negatively a>ected by the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus, whether directly or indirectly, sometimes in devastating ways. Media provided daily updates about infection rates and death-counts, about rising debt levels, about government-mandated measures including incarceration of citizens within their homes and, more recently, the di>u-