Regeneron, is it moral to support this company?

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The drug President Trump took is not made from embryonic stem cells, but from aborted fetal tissue lines, a process that has been judged licit by the Church.
However, the company Regeneron, that makes this drug, uses embryonic stem cells lines in its research.
Is it licit to use anything made by this company?
 
This article discusses it:

… No human embryonic stem cells or human fetal tissue were used to produce the treatments President Trump received–period. Let’s look at the facts.

“The Regeneron therapy given to the president was made in Velocimmune humanized mice, a novel platform that uses genetically modified mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells to generate antibodies described here and here. Development of Regeneron’s antibody cocktail is detailed in the journal Science, describing how they identified their antibodies made from Velocimmune mice and blood from recovered patients previously infected with SARS-CoV-2. The final antibody pair used in the REGN-COV2 therapy cocktail was then produced in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Results from Regeneron’s REGN-COV2 clinical trials to treat COVID-19 patients are reported here.
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So, this is mostly beyond my knowledge. We will see what “experts” say.

It’s beyond my knowledge but maybe into these “mice” was planted material from a fetus. The fetus maybe was from 1970?? Anyway, this is very complex.
 
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Like I said, it’s the Regeneron connection to embryonic stem cell research that worries me, not the specific drug given to President Trump.
I can’t post links it seems, I guess because I am a new poster, but if you search for this you’ll see their statement:
Regeneron-Position-Stem-Cell-Research
" Currently, there are limited research efforts
employing human-induced pluripotent stem cell lines derived from adult human cells and
human embryonic stem cells that are approved for research use by the National Institutes of
Health and created solely through in vitro fertilization. Research using such stem cells allows
Regeneron to model complex diseases, test new drug candidates and can help unlock new
scientific insights that ultimately could lead to the discovery of new treatments for people with
serious diseases. "
 
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However, the company Regeneron, that makes this drug, uses embryonic stem cells lines in its research.
Is it licit to use anything made by this company?
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Perhaps licit to use individual products which don’t use embryonic cells, but not to support (ie: invest in) the company as a whole?
 
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