Making Moral Vaccine Decisions - Part E: Vaccines In Canada

JMJ

There are three vaccines that have been approved in Canada and one that is probably going to be offered.

Based on information from the Lozier Institute (link) Table 1 outlines the moral status of the vaccines that are either approved or likely to be available in Canada.

As noted earlier, the use of the vaccines to prevent disease in ourselves or for the common-good is a morally good act. Being inoculated by a morally tainted vaccine would constitute a remote cooperation with the evil of the murder of the innocent whose body was used to create the cell-line.

As such for sufficient reason it is morally licit to be inoculated with a morally tainted vaccine. I will detail our obligations in a subsequent post.

Something that is new is the introduction of vaccines whose production is untainted, but who employed tainted cell-lines in testing.

The distinction that needs to be drawn is the causal chain between the vaccine injected in our bodies back to the evil act of murder. This causal chain of act is absent in the Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax vaccines, making them preferable to the AstraZeneca vaccine. In the case of testing performed using HEK-293 cells, the remote nature of the cooperation is extended further.

If the conditions allow, I will ask to be inoculated with one of the untainted vaccines.

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