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...the Right to Object to COVID-19 Vaccines?
Church leaders and theologians who spoke with the Register indicate that the Holy Father’s arguments in support of conscientious objection for health professionals might also have an application in the context of abortion-tainted vaccines.
VATICAN CITY — Could a health-care worker’s right to conscientiously object to assisting in an abortion be licitly extended to those who object to taking abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines, therefore allowing them a religious exemption?
In a recent address to Italian pharmacists, Pope Francis firmly upheld the right to conscientious objection for health professionals in the context of abortion, arguing that such a right “should never be negotiated” and acts as a “denunciation of the injustices done to the detriment of innocent and defenseless life.”
Noting that some medicinal substances “can become poisons,” the Pope reminded membersof the Italian Society of Hospital Pharmacy on Oct. 14 that they are “always at the service of human life” and so their work can in some cases lead to “conscientious objection which is not disloyalty but, on the contrary, fidelity to your profession, if validly motivated.”
Abortion is “homicide and it is not licit to become an accomplice,” the Holy Father said while stressing that conscientious objection in this area of healthcare is a “very delicate issue” and that it must be “validly motivated.”
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What Do the Pope’s Recent Remarks to Pharmacists Regarding Conscientious Objection Tell Us About the Right to Object to COVID-19 Vaccines?
Church leaders and theologians who spoke with the Register indicate that the Holy Father’s arguments in support of conscientious objection for health professionals might also have an application in the context of abortion-tainted vaccines.
VATICAN CITY — Could a health-care worker’s right to conscientiously object to assisting in an abortion be licitly extended to those who object to taking abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines, therefore allowing them a religious exemption?
In a recent address to Italian pharmacists, Pope Francis firmly upheld the right to conscientious objection for health professionals in the context of abortion, arguing that such a right “should never be negotiated” and acts as a “denunciation of the injustices done to the detriment of innocent and defenseless life.”
Noting that some medicinal substances “can become poisons,” the Pope reminded membersof the Italian Society of Hospital Pharmacy on Oct. 14 that they are “always at the service of human life” and so their work can in some cases lead to “conscientious objection which is not disloyalty but, on the contrary, fidelity to your profession, if validly motivated.”
Abortion is “homicide and it is not licit to become an accomplice,” the Holy Father said while stressing that conscientious objection in this area of healthcare is a “very delicate issue” and that it must be “validly motivated.”
Continued below.
What Do the Pope’s Recent Remarks to Pharmacists Regarding Conscientious Objection Tell Us About the Right to Object to COVID-19 Vaccines?
