Products of conception

It is utterly baffling and ridiculous that the US Bishops would now urge the laity to write letters to Big Pharm demanding ethical alternatives to vaccines that use fetal cells in research or production!

That ship sailed, and some of us have been standing on the dock crying, "Wait!" while the entire episcopacy got on board denouncing people still staying ashore. 

Now they urge a response?? 

Those of us shouting into the wind are getting very very very tacit quasi-acknowledgments from ethicists like Mark Perkins, who pens the following

 Imagine a scientist asking a serial killer, “Look, I’m not saying anything one way or another about what you do with your free time, but if you do end up murdering someone, would you mind donating the corpse to science?” One could argue that a better comparison would be that of the state—not the killer—donating the unclaimed body of a homicide victim to science. But the latter metaphor fails to recognize the premeditated agreement between killers and scientists in a legal system that sanctions the homicide of the unborn. Scientists do not come across the corpses of aborted children by chance. The specter of scientists patiently waiting for the killings to be completed so they can take custody of little corpses is rightly repugnant, as is the knowledge that contemporary abortionists perform these killings in such a way as to better preserve the victim’s organs for research.  There is a complicity in this symbiotic relationship, a complicity that we share—indirectly and in part—whenever we benefit from it.

...yet he couches it within a whole series of explanations for why it's not that big a deal in the end. Just something that has been left out that "complicates" the ethical consideration. 

If you can acknowledge that they abort babies in such a way as to better preserve their organs, then your response should be outrage that such an idea ever crossed the mind of the medical community, nonetheless that they are now actively doing so with impunity! 

That outrage should fire a demand for systemic change, a demand that would have been heard had the US Bishops directed the laity to make those demands a year ago.