I have read most, if not all, of the original research mentioned in this article. The information is sufficient to raise moral concerns.
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Free and Informed Consent and Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates-Ethical and Religious Directives for Health Care
These are important ethical principles found in the Catholic Bishops “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.”
26. The free and informed consent of the person or the person’s surrogate is required for
medical treatments and procedures, except in an emergency situation when consent cannot
be obtained and there is no indication that the patient would refuse consent to the
treatment.
27. Free and informed consent requires that the person or the person’s surrogate receive all
reasonable information about the essential nature of the proposed treatment and its
benefits; its risks, side-effects, consequences, and cost; and any reasonable and morally
legitimate alternatives, including no treatment at all.
28. Each person or the person’s surrogate should have access to medical and moral
information and counseling so as to be able to form his or her conscience. The free and
informed health care decision of the person or the person’s surrogate is to be followed so
long as it does not contradict Catholic principles.
29. All persons served by Catholic health care have the right and duty to protect and preserve
their bodily and functional integrity.16 The functional integrity of the person may be
sacrificed to maintain the health or life of the person when no other morally
permissible means is available….
31. No one should be the subject of medical or genetic experimentation, even if it is
therapeutic, unless the person or surrogate first has given free and informed consent. In
instances of nontherapeutic experimentation, the surrogate can give this consent only if the
experiment entails no significant risk to the person’s well-being. Moreover, the greater the person’s incompetency and vulnerability, the greater the reasons must be to perform any
medical experimentation, especially nontherapeutic.
32. While every person is obliged to use ordinary means to preserve his or her health, no
person should be obliged to submit to a health care procedure that the person has judged,
with a free and informed conscience, not to provide a reasonable hope of benefit without
imposing excessive risks and burdens on the patient or excessive expense to family or
community.18
33. The well-being of the whole person must be taken into account in deciding about any
therapeutic intervention or use of technology. Therapeutic procedures that are likely to
cause harm or undesirable side-effects can be justified only by a proportionate benefit to
the patient.
34. Health care providers are to respect each person’s privacy and confidentiality regarding
information related to the person’s diagnosis, treatment, and care.
Wuhoo? The Duping of the Scientific Establishment.
For a while now I have asked myself, attempting to analyze this hysterical and unreasoned approach to a sickness, is it possible that the virus is not as deadly as it was expected to be? From a medical-ethical standpoint, why has an emergency been allowed to trample basic, long-standing principles such as informed consent and the right to refuse burdensome and risky treatment? There is much more to be learned. Keeping facts from coming out at no more than a trickle is a great way to orchestrate a hoax. I am not declaring everything a hoax! The deaths are real. The sickness is real. But why do the actors in all of this keep acting like this? The question is simple in this case, How has such a significant piece of information been kept under wraps for so long, especially the conflict of interest?
St. Luke’s hospital to allow employees with natural immunity to refuse coronavirus vaccine | Fox News Video
Dr. Jeffrey Jahre joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to explain why the hospital made the decision, says the hospital is following the science
— Read on video.foxnews.com/v/6272662762001
COVID Vaccine Exemption Information
The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) is the leading resource organization on bioethics for most of the Bishops of the United States. The NCBC has issued several documents that are of interest to us in the wake of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates. Federal and (some) state laws allow for exemptions in health care decisions based upon religious conviction. The NCBC lays out with clarity the right of Catholics to exercise the right to decline the vaccination based upon Catholic thought.
Here are the links:
