Dear all,
For purposes of religious exemption, is it accurate to say that all currently available COVID-19 vaccines are tainted with abortion somewhere in their production process? Or could an employer counter by saying "well if you don't like abortion then just take [some COVID vaccine that doesn't have this problem]?"
Thank you for your help.
It depends on how loose your correlation between "abortion" and 40 year old synthesized cells are.
People with no medical experience or knowledge will claim it's aborted fetal cells, outright and that's just not true. There is no tissue used in the vaccine. Period. It's a cell line that has been re-generated in a lab millions of times over. There's really no direct link to the moral outrage of abortion and the fetal cell line.
This isn't a case of direct reaction to an action, i.e if new cells were taken directly for testing.
Claiming "abortion" is a stretch too. The original donor of the cells was medically aborted. Because of unviability. You're not talking about some thot aborting for no real reason here.
If anything, the donors of the original cells have lived a life far more productive than many living humans.
Basically, the abortion route is going to be extremely hard to prove you have a moral exception to. Anyone arguing otherwise is not arguing with a basis in reality. There are many more good, solid reasons to ask for exemption, this isn't it.
Such as…
Medical reasons - there's more than enough compelling evidence to suggest it's unsuitable for a majority of the demographic. Psychological reasons. Scientific objection - it doesn't prevent spread and doesn't lessen symptoms as demonstrated by raw data from the UK and Israel. It's therefore not a social contract issue. You're not creating less strain on the community for not taking it.
If you really want to get into it, it's unconstitutional. That's the biggest issue here which the above 3 reasons play into.
A religious exemption is not going to do anything. The abortion fetal cells line is a weak argument based on nothing grounded in reality. That's the problem
Nevermind the fact that I keep getting told that this kind of thing won't happen in America because "we haz gunz" yet... here we are. Tyranny.
Thank you. Problem is I have not heard of a single medical exemption granted even for someone with MS who is in relapse and someone who just had heart surgery. I totally agree with you that it is unconstitutional on its face, but employers aren’t acknowledging this. They have cover from the federal government that they only have to recognize two limited exemptions. But I’m with ya. This just sucks. And I am also tired of the “this won’t happen in America” shit. What’s happened already is an obscene affront to our country and humanity. Ugh