Ethically tainted? Why Christian leaders oppose COVID-19 vaccine
They object to the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine developed using a cell-line cultured from an aborted human fetus fifty years ago
“People will be concerned not to benefit in any way from the death of the little girl whose cells were taken and cultivated.”
This week, three of the nation’s most prominent religious leaders took issue with Australia’s embrace of the Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine.
The media has already been awash with the news that the Federal Government has signed a deal to secure 25 million of doses of the vaccine — should it be shown to work — to protect us from the pandemic.
But Anthony Fisher, the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Glenn Davies, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Makarios Griniezakis, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop, say it is “ethically tainted”.
