American Bishops Rank the Vaccines

“[I]t is ‘morally acceptable’ to receive COVID-19 vaccines produced using cell lines from aborted fetuses when no alternative is available, but if possible, Catholics ought to choose a vaccine with a more remote connection to abortion” — USCCB: Moderna’s and Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccines ethically preferable to Johnson & Johnson’s.

We learn that “the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson vaccine… used abortion-derived HEK-293 cell lines in design and development, production, and lab testing” whereas “mRNA vaccines available from Pfizer and Moderna have an extremely remote connection to abortion in the design and testing phases.”