COVID-19:

VACCINES
Promote Life and Health
Without Undermining
Human Dignity

The National Catholic Bioethics Center

supports and promotes the quick
creation of a COVID-19 vaccination that
is efficient, secure, and widely accessible.
Even a pandemic, though, cannot excuse
disregarding the fundamental moral
precepts that govern moral behavior—
human life is sacrosanct and should
never be exploited.

"Every crisis produces fear, and the COVID-19

pandemic is no exception. However, this is not a time
to sideline our ethical and moral principles. It is a
time to uphold them ever more strongly, for they will
critically assist us in steering through these trying
times.”
-Bishop chairmen of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Dignitas Personae:
The Center firmly opposes the plans of organizations and researchers to
use cell lines derived from elective abortions—such as HEK-293 and PER-
C6—to develop a vaccine against COVID-19, and the NCBC calls on all
researchers to find alternatives to such cell lines.

FETUS COVID 19-VACCINE BISHOPS

use of cell lines developed from using released a statement on

derived from elective HEK-293 and PER-C6 rationing opposing the
abortions researchg

Even with the admirable goal of a COVID-

19 vaccine, the use of these cell lines is
scandalous theologically. Invoking noble
intentions and a "urgent necessity" will
encourage immoral research and
development to spread farther into the
fields of medical, politics, law, and culture.

Four out of ten development of the vaccines

involved the use of cell lines.
https://www.unesco.org/en/covid-19/social-
human-response