Much of the Catholic discussion around the ethics of vaccines has focused on the remote connection with abortion. There has been an implicit assumption that all testing on HEK-293 is unethical. But as not all remote cooperation with evil is […]
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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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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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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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Fetal Cell Lines Are Not Continual Theft From the Fetus (2/3 on Fr. Ripperger)
I wrote a second piece on Ripperger that directly points out that his central argument does not hold water. It is posted over on Patheos. This is the second in a three-part series analyzing Fr. Chad Ripperger on COVID-19 vaccines. […]
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Errors in Fr. Dave Nix’s COVID Vaccine Video
Several priests were promoting confusion and bad theology around vaccines. I pointed out one of these in a post. There are unfortunately a lot of errors in Catholic circles on COVID vaccines. I have watched the start of several long […]
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12 Things Less-Remote Cooperation in Evil Than COVID Vaccines
I wrote a kind of reductio ad absurdum about how remote the connection to abortion is with vaccines only tested on fetal cell lines. In recent days, several vaccines for COVID have reached the final approval process. The USCCB indicated that Catholics […]
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