May 26, 2021
Michael Pakaluk and Jay Richards join host Thomas V. Milas to discuss the moral issues involved in producing and testing vaccines using illegally obtained fetal cell lines and the conscience of those who do not wish to be vaccinated. Discuss the reasons for freedom. .
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Read the full discussion.
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=12522
Thomas Milas Apology and Retraction
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/apology-and-retractions-about-vaccine-episode/
Church documents discuss:
Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith, dignitas persona (Related paragraphs 34-35)
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20081208_dignitas-personae_en.html
CDF, A note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines (2020)
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20201221_nota-vaccini-anticovid_en.html
Pontifical Academy of Life’s 2005 statement on vaccines, highlighting freedom of conscience https://www.immunize.org/talking-about-vaccines/vaticandocument.htm
In the commentary, it was discussed as follows:
“To awaken the conscience”
https://mailchi.mp/7742dd12483f/statement-of-conscience-to-awaken-conscience
Michael Pakaluk: “Why I signed the ‘Awakening of Conscience’ petition”
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/why-i-signed-to-awaken-conscience
Jose Trasancos: ‘The cell lines used in the coronavirus vaccine were obtained from carefully planned abortions, not miscarriages’
https://stream.org/the-cell-lines-used-for-covid-19-vaccines-came-from-carefully-planned-abortions-not-miscarriages/
Bishop Schneider, Strickland, et al., “New Coronavirus Vaccine: ‘The End Does Not Justify the Means’”
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2020/covid-vaccines-the-ends-cannot-justify-the-means
Center for Ethics and Public Policy “Statement from Pro-Life Catholic Scholars on the Moral Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination”
https://eppc.org/news/statement-from-pro-life-catholic-scholars-on-the-moral-acceptability-of-receiving-covid-19-vaccines/
Roberto De Mattei On the moral obligation of vaccination
https://libri.edizionifiducia.it/on-the-moral-liceity-of-the-vaccination/
Richards, Briggs, Ax. The cost of panic: How the tyranny of experts turned the pandemic into a disaster
https://www.regnery.com/9781684511419/the-price-of-panic/
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