{"id":45432,"date":"2021-03-03T08:47:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T13:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=45432"},"modified":"2021-05-30T11:41:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T15:41:26","slug":"u-s-bishops-dont-take-jj-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/u-s-bishops-dont-take-jj-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Bishops: Don&#8217;t Take J&#038;J Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News:<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The U.S. Conference of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/religion\/roman-catholic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic<\/a>\u00a0Bishops is urging\u00a0people to seek alternatives to coronavirus vaccines produced by Janssen, a company of Johnson &amp; Johnson, arguing that the product raises additional moral concerns through\u00a0its connection to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aborted<\/a>\u00a0fetal cells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In a press release Tuesday, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades said that people should instead take Pfizer&#8217;s or Moderna&#8217;s vaccines if possible.\u00a0\u00a0[see full statement below]<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- spiritdaily.org --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6350947343102800\" data-ad-slot=\"9237292177\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>From <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/news\/2021\/us-bishop-chairmen-doctrine-and-pro-life-address-use-johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccine\">the USCCB<\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">On March 2, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops\u2019 (USCCB) Committee on Doctrine,\u00a0and Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas, chairman of the USCCB\u2019s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, issued a statement on the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine recently approved for use in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u201cThe approval of Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine for use in the United States again raises questions about the moral permissibility of using vaccines developed, tested, and\/or produced with the help of abortion-derived cell lines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u201cPfizer and Moderna\u2019s vaccines raised concerns because\u00a0an abortion-derived cell line was used for testing them, but not in their production.\u00a0 The Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine, however, was developed, tested and is produced with abortion-derived cell lines raising additional moral concerns. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has judged that \u2018when ethically irreproachable Covid-19 vaccines are not available \u2026\u00a0<i><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">it is morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process.<\/em><\/i>\u2019<a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/news\/2021\/us-bishop-chairmen-doctrine-and-pro-life-address-use-johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccine#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0However, if one can choose among equally safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, the vaccine with the least connection to abortion-derived cell lines should be chosen. Therefore, if one has the ability to choose a vaccine, Pfizer or Moderna\u2019s vaccines should be chosen over Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u201cWhile we should continue to insist that pharmaceutical companies stop using abortion-derived cell lines, given the world-wide suffering that this pandemic is causing, we affirm again that being vaccinated can be an act of charity that serves the common good.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"church\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1614761262\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"U.S. Bishops: Don&#8217;t Take J&#038;J Vaccine\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: The U.S. Conference of\u00a0Catholic\u00a0Bishops is urging\u00a0people to seek alternatives to coronavirus vaccines produced by Janssen, a company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-church","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}