Vatican Condemns Vaccines Made with Tissue Obtained by Abortion
I hope they also issue a clarification that people have the right to refuse vaccines which are implicated in causing autism and other health problems like infertility. There has been widescale misconduct by the pharmaceutical and medical communities in the use of dangerous and unnecessary vaccines. No one is obligated to submit to the Frankenstein malpractice of wackos and quacks.
To say that use of embryonic stem cell vaccines is permissible if no other vaccine is available is the epitome of ethical good sense.
It's similar to saying that capital punishment is permissible in places where the prisons cannot safely hold the offenders. (I know I--or they--lost a bunch of people here.)
The Church in these two judgments, and others, looks to the future, when possible societal catastrophe can render communications and other things that we take for granted obsolete.