Successful Pfizer Vaccine Was Developed Without Fetal Cells, Pro-Life Group Says
Research on a new Pfizer vaccine that proved 90 percent effective in clinical trials against COVID-19 did not use fetal cells and is “ethically uncontroversial,” according to a pro-life research and education institute.
The Charlotte Lozier Institute, an arm of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, says Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech did not use cells from aborted fetuses during research for the vaccine, known as BNT162b2.
“That news may materially increase the number of people willing to be inoculated when the vaccine becomes generally available, perhaps avoiding a potentially explosive controversy over mandates that has been brewing in recent months,” ethicist Wesley J. Smith wrote on The National Review’s website Monday. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism....
