US Evangelical leader John Piper has expressed his doubts about some of the current Covid vaccines being developed.
In an interview on the Desiring God website, the famous preacher and writer said: ‘If we really believe that the killing of unborn children is abhorrent to God and falls into the category of the shedding of innocent blood, for which God’s judgment fell, we should not think of turning this wickedness into a wonder drug to save our lives. We should not do evil that good may come.’
‘If a scientist avoids using tissue and organs harvested from babies killed in abortion, or if an ordinary citizen avoids using a medication that they know has been developed specifically through such harvesting and research, the aim is that the Christian conscience is preserved and Christ is made much of as more valuable than any security or safety or health we might get through sin.’
However, some Christian medical scientists have expressed a differing view. US evangelical and immunologist, Dr Michelle Ols, who has been working in the fields of autoimmune disease and immuno-oncology research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has said that aborted baby cells do not appear in any vaccines, including ones for Covid, or treatments produced today.
She said: ‘To be clear, tissue from newly aborted babies is no longer used for current vaccine production. Cell lines … that continue to be used in the production of some vaccines (rubella, chicken pox and hepatitis A, shingles) have been propagated since the 1960s. Such cell lines have divided independently for years. Thus, as descendants of the cells originally taken from a foetus over 50 years ago, those cells used today are not themselves part of an aborted child.’
