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- Sep 18, 2020
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Catholic Health Association weighs in on COVID-19 vaccine
- Sep 15, 2020
Amid heated discussion and ongoing debate on a COVID-19 vaccine — how soon it will be available and who should get it — the Catholic Health Association has a lot to say.
Australian bishops join discussion on morality of possible COVID-19 vaccine
- Aug 28, 2020
More bishops are pleading with their governments to give priority to ethically developed coronavirus vaccines, but many also are telling Catholics that not getting vaccinated is a more serious moral problem than using the problematic vaccines.
Pope: Rich can’t get priority for vaccine, poor need help
- Aug 19, 2020
“It would be sad,” Pope Francis said, if priority for a COVID-19 vaccine “were to be given to the richest. It would be sad if this vaccine were to become the property of this nation or another, rather than universal and for all.”
Court sides with Pfizer over religious discrimination suit
- Aug 19, 2020
A former Pfizer employee who said she was fired for refusing a vaccine on religious grounds can’t proceed with a discrimination lawsuit because she waived that right, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a decision two justices called potentially troubling for employee rights.
Church leaders urge scientists to develop ethical COVID-19 vaccine
- Jun 15, 2020
Spanish Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera of Valencia made headlines when he described as a “work of the devil” attempts to find a COVID-19 vaccine using cell lines created from fetuses aborted voluntarily decades ago.
Bioethicists urge COVID-19 vaccine research avoid abortion cell lines
- Apr 28, 2020
A human vaccine trial begun last week in England has raised hopes that the COVID-19 coronavirus might one day be stopped in its tracks. However, ethicists have expressed concerns that the vaccine, developed at Oxford University, used cell lines obtained from an aborted child in the early 1970s.
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