Despite claims to the contrary from some circles, the Church has never taught that medicine being tested on fetal cell lines is a significant enough moral issue to skip that medicine. I wrote this up in a semi-academic piece that […]
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A Timeline Those Now Critiquing My HEK293 Post Miss
A post from my blog: I think a little timeline is helpful to understand how my post on how almost every medicine was tested on HEK-293 changed the argument. You can’t argue that based on your standard now, the standard I applied […]
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Missing the Point about Remote Cooperation / Appropriation
I posted this over on Patheos. My piece from January, If Any Drug Tested on HEK-293 Is Immoral, Goodbye Modern Medicine, continues to be widely viewed, averaging over 1000 views a day in the past month. This has lead to several people […]
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Bridgeport: The Best Vaccine Mandate Instruction Yet
On Patheos, I noted this diocese did a good job. Various dioceses have issued statements about vaccine mandates that seem contradictory. I think many of the others have missed one side or the other of a two-part reality. First, the […]
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Imprudence & Imprecision on Vaccines & Mandates
I addressed this issue over on Patheos. On August 5, the Bishops of Colorado issued a statement that although not technically wrong, was imprecise in ways that can easily mislead an average reader. I think these wordings are imprudent. Although it is […]
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Anti-Vaccine Catholics Break Moral Theology Principles
I posted this over at Patheos, pointing out the errors of those pushing an anti-vax position with bad theology: Basic moral theology indicates that we can, and in most cases should, use the vaccines against COVID. I have repeatedly shown […]
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Vaccines: 2 Moral Issues But Only 1 Discussed
I wrote about how the issue of ensuring the poor get vaccines is essential but under-discussed by Catholics over at Patheos. Read the rest over there if you are interested.
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Comparing COVID Vaccine to Other Vaccines
The same logic that applies either way the super remote connection to abortion with the covid vaccines applies to other vaccines too. I did a little comparison between these. For decades, Catholic ethicists have approved of several vaccines in the […]
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Quantifying Cooperation in or Appropriation of Evil
In response to some people asking questions about the connection between abortion and vaccines, I did a little math and posted it. Some Catholics have questions about COVID vaccines based on the very remote connection to abortion. Abortion is obviously […]
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If Any Drug Tested on HEK-293 Is Immoral, Goodbye Modern Medicine
I posted about how prevalent testing on HEK-293 is on Patheos. When I published it, I did not expect it, but this became probably my most-viewed post of all time. For years, the Church has generally encouraged vaccines while noting […]
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