US bishops approve use of coronavirus vaccines with 'remote connection' to abortion

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The vaccinations produced by Pfizer and Moderna did not use HEK293 in their design, development, or production, but did use cells from the line in a confirmatory test, said the bishops.

“While neither vaccine is completely free from any connection to morally compromised cell lines, in this case the connection is very remote from the initial evil of the abortion,” said the bishops.
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It looks like the lede is buried here: we may not use the AstraZeneca vaccine as long as there are viable alternatives. Good to know.

Also: how disappointing is it, that all three vaccines did indeed have to rely on human abortion?
 
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By the sound of it, there doesn’t seem to be any vaccines that aren’t connected in some way with abortion, whether directly or remotely.
 
I have found some (conflicting) indications of some that have no connection to aborted cell lines at all.

I saw a video recently (which I can’t seem to find again) from the president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center saying that we can look for the Novavax and GlaxoSmithKline (recently delayed 4-5 months) vaccines for that.

This Archdiocese of Oklahoma City page has a chart listing which ones involved design/development/production and testing. It is listing ‘no connection’ ones as Sorrento and maybe Merck/IAVI and Sanofi/GSK Protein Sciences:

 
Here in Ireland we will be offered Pfizer and Moderna, pity it’s not Sorento but at least it wasn’t developed from the cell line.
 
How quickly the Bishop’s change their position. If this was not a matter of life and death, do you think they would have approved it’s usage? I can and will speculate that the answer is a no.
 
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