Notre Dame mandates students receive COVID vaccine, offers them one tested on aborted fetal tissue

[mountaineer]

Notre Dame mandates students receive COVID vaccine, offers them one tested on aborted fetal tissue
Students say the university ignored moral problems with the vaccine
 Matt Lamb - Assistant Editor •April 9, 2021

The University of Notre Dame announced recently that all students must receive a COVID vaccine to return to campus and will offer students a vaccine that has been tested on a cell line developed from aborted fetal tissue.

“We urge everyone who is not already vaccinated to sign up this week to receive the first of two doses of the Pfizer vaccine,” university president John Jenkins, a Catholic priest, said in a letter. The university has “the goal of fully vaccinating as many members of our campus community as possible before the end of the spring semester.”

“We will, of course, accommodate documented medical and religious exemptions,” the 80 percent or higher Catholic university, said in its announcement. ...

Pfizer did not develop the vaccine from aborted fetal tissue, but it did test it on a cell line derived from it. ...

The College Fix

[jmyrlefuller]

"Tested on aborted fetal tissue" reads like "we're so desperately pushing an anti-vaxxer position that we'll deliberately concoct a silly canard that we know the pro-life community will have to respond to it."

[mountaineer]

Well, that's one interpretation. I don't agree.

[PeteS in CA]

Pfizer did not develop the vaccine from aborted fetal tissue, but it did test it on a cell line derived from it. ...

This is true of Moderna's vaccine as well. What "the College Fix" didn't mention is that the actual abortion from which the cell line used for testing happened decades ago and cells used today are many many many generations descended from that abortion. Unfortunately that cell line is ubiquitous in testing medications. The J&J vaccine (and possibly AZ's) uses cells from that line to produce the vaccine (though the cells are filtered out).

[bigheadfred]

Here is something worse than using fetal tissue:

Notre Dame mandates students receive COVID vaccine