Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Cells from human foetuses are important for developing vaccines – but they’re not an ingredient

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par Alessondra T Speidel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Karolinska Institutet

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops recently issued a statement advising Catholics to opt for the Moderna or Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines over the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, if possible, because human embryonic cells collected from an aborted foetus were used to develop the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Using human embryonic cells from aborted foetuses in vaccine development has been controversial for some faiths. Given the severity of the pandemic and the necessity that a significant percentage…

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