Are the Covid-19 Vaccines Immoral? By Dr Geoffrey Brushwood
Prevention is always better than cure. In the case of Covid-19, it is especially important that the elderly with no reserves, and risk groups with deeper problems should be protected.
There are quite a few nursing homes in my area where the infection has run rampant. In one with 42 residents, 16 died in quick succession.
There are many remedies presented against a Covid infection, none of these work without a robust immune system.
The best help, a seriously ill patient could have, is plasma containing antibodies extracted from a patient who defeated Covid-19.
The best possible prophylaxis is a vaccine. There are plenty of arguments about the morality of vaccine development using tissue taken from aborted children, however, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has stated that cooperation with evil is "not proximate" in this case.
I can understand why there are Catholics who don’t trust the Congregation for the Doctrine …More
So...let those who "need" it receive the vaccine created with the benefit of a baby whose life was violently ended at the direct request of his/her mother and let everyone seek, promote, support vaccines that are developed with moral methods.
The point (rather, "segway") I am presenting is, make the important points that Catholics need to understand. God help us for terrorizing people who are high risk and terrorized with fear that they should not accept a vaccine. But don't get consumed in arguments alone. Somewhere in this debate of "thou shalt not" we seem to be ignoring our responsibility to find and promote moral alternatives. Should we not need to bother?