The recent pandemic has sparked mass controversy over the
idea of vaccinations. A large amount of this controversy is due to
misinformation of people and the mass hysteria that COVID brought about. One major reason for not getting a vaccine is the supposed use of
fetal cells to create the vaccine. This technique is something that has been used in
science for many years. The use of fetal cells was used to create the vaccines
for things like rabies and chickenpox. It has helped to save millions of lives
over the past few decades and the impact of these vaccines have been greater
than anyone could ever fathom. However, certain people in our population, specifically those that follow the Catholic faith, have reserved feelings about
the new COVID vaccine because of its supposed use of fetal cells when
developing the vaccines. However, this is not entirely true. The only COVID
vaccine that did use fetal cells was the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Pfizer
and Moderna used no fetal cells at any point in their development so, if this
was an argument of anti-vaccine because of the use of fetal cells it would be
reasonable to suggest that people should instead get a Pfizer or Moderna
vaccine. Now looking to the argument that vaccines that have used fetal cells
are against God as well, the Vatican actually reviewed this data and released a
statement. The Vatican declared that despite the sins of people in the past
that led to the availability of the feels cells that had been from an abortion,
the users of any vaccine are not responsible for the sins of someone in the
past period instead they should work to vaccinate their families and their
friends as well. In my opinion, there is very little reason to not get
vaccinated and i have found that having this knowledge has helped me to have
more educated conversations around this topic as well.
Wadman M. (2020). Vaccines that use human fetal cells draw fire. Science (New York, N.Y.), 368(6496), 1170–1171. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.368.6496.1170
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