{"id":10789,"date":"2021-03-03T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10789"},"modified":"2021-08-14T17:08:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T00:08:43","slug":"is-the-johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccine-unethical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10789","title":{"rendered":"Is the Johnson &#038; Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Unethical?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Russell Moore<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>After half a million of our fellow Americans have died to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country seems almost right on the verge of hope. Vaccines were developed with record-setting speed, and have proven both safe and effective. After the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been on the field now for a while, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just authorized a third\u2014by pharmaceutical company Johnson &amp; Johnson. This vaccine has made news\u2014both in terms of the images of trucks headed for parcel distribution hubs for delivery and, less noticed, a denunciation from the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, later joined by the Catholic bishops nationwide, arguing that Catholics, when possible, should take one of the first two vaccines but not the Johnson &amp; Johnson version because, they argue, it is linked to cloned stem cells derived from abortions that took place decades ago.\u00a0. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some have wondered, seeing these headlines, whether taking a COVID-19 vaccine would cause them to be involved, somehow, in abortion or embryonic stem-cell research or in any way the taking of a human life. . . <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/religion\/religion077.aspx\">continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Moore After half a million of our fellow Americans have died to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country seems almost right on the verge of hope. Vaccines were developed with record-setting speed, and have proven both safe and effective. After the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been on the field now for a while, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is the Johnson &#038; Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Unethical?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1185,508,28,3303],"tags":[3979,4050],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-non-catholic","category-ethical-commentary","category-usa","category-vaccinations","tag-covid","tag-johnson-johnson-covid-vaccine"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Is the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Unethical? - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"People wonder if they should have an ethical objection to the Johnson &amp; Johnson Covid vaccine. 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