{"id":5597,"date":"2015-02-15T18:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:38:42","slug":"moral-reflections-on-vaccines-prepared-from-cells-derived-from-aborted-human-foetuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5597","title":{"rendered":"Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Aborted Human Foetuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pontifical Academy for Life; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith<\/p>\n

PONTIFICIA ACADEMIA PRO VITA<\/p>\n

Il Presidente
\n<\/i>Prot.n.P\/3431<\/p>\n

Vatican City,
\nJune 9 2005<\/p>\n

Mrs Debra L.Vinnedge
\nExecutive Director, Children of God for Life
\n<\/i>943 Deville Drive East
\nLargo, Florida
\n33771
\nStati Uniti<\/p>\n

Dear Mrs Debra L.Vinnedge,<\/p>\n

On June 4, 2003, you wrote to His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, with a copy of this letter forwarded to me, asking to the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith a clarification about the liceity of vaccinating children with vaccines prepared using cell lines derived from aborted human fetuses.\u00a0 Your question regarded in particular the right of the parents of these children to oppose such a vaccination when made at school, mandated by law. As there were no formal guidelines by the magisterium concerning that topic, you said that catholic parents were often challenged by State Courts, Health Officials and School Administrators when they filled religious exemptions for their children to this type of vaccination<\/p>\n

This Pontifical Academy for Life, carrying out the commission entrusted to us by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, in answer to your request, has proceeded to a careful examination of the question of these “tainted” vaccines, and has produced as a result a study (in Italian) that has been realized with the help of a group of experts. This study has been approved as such by the Congregation and we send you, there enclosed, an English translation of a synthesis of this study. This synthesis can be brought to the knowledge of the interested officials and organisms.<\/p>\n

A documented paper on the topic will be published in the journal “Medicina e Morale”, <\/i>edited by the Centra di Bioetica della Universita Cattolica <\/i>in Rome.<\/p>\n

The study, its synthesis, and the translation of this material took some time. We apologize for the delay.<\/p>\n

With my best regards,<\/p>\n

Sincerely yours,
\n+E.Sgreccia<\/p>\n

\u00a000193 Roma – Via della Conciliazione, 1 – Tel. 06 698.82423 – 06 698.81693 – Fax 06 698.82014<\/i><\/p>\n

See Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Aborted Human Foetuses\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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