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Re:Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most pla... by HWR_14 on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:58PM (#27162214)
I'm not sure the cause of their concern with the J&J being produced with a fetal cell line, but the Catholic Church has some fairly vocal guidance on why the J&J vaccine is acceptable that address this.

Also, for the mRNA vaccine, you may want to emphasize that this is the result of several decades of research, not a one-year crash program in new technology.

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Re:Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most pla... by josephcsible on Saturday May 15, 2021 @10:13AM (#27165407)
> the Catholic Church has some fairly vocal guidance on why the J&J vaccine is acceptable

The Catholic Church's position is that the J&J vaccine is acceptable if it's the only vaccine you can get, but you should not get it if any of the other vaccines are available to you. Your comment makes it sound like they consider it acceptable unconditionally, which isn't the case.

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Re:Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most pla... by HWR_14 on Saturday May 15, 2021 @11:05AM (#27165832)
I didn't mean to misrepresent the Catholic Church's position.

I have no idea if that helps the poster's parents decide to get vaccinated, but it's very clear that the Pope wants them to take the J&J shot if they don't have an alternative. And they currently don't have one they will accept.

None of the other vaccines are available to the poster's parents (held up mRNA technology fear, even though they are available via distribution), so the Church's logic should still hold

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Re:Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most pla... by josephcsible on Saturday May 15, 2021 @11:08AM (#27165871)
There's a big difference between "don't have an alternative" and "don't have one they will accept." I don't think the Church means that it's okay to take J&J just because you don't like the others.
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