Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Joseph Healy, a Roman Catholic, has filed suit against the government after superiors threatened to discipline him for refusing to accept a vaccination derived from the lung cells of an aborted baby. WorldNet Daily reports:

Healy’s request for religious exemption cited a 2005 letter from the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life which condemned the use of cell lines from abortions in vaccines and supported Catholics’ right to refuse them while not requiring them to reject the medicines.

In May, 2007, Capt. Brent Pennington rejected Healy’s request, saying Catholic teaching “does not state that these immunizations are against the religious tenets of the Catholic Church.”

The vaccine in question is based on lung cells taken from an elective abortion performed at 14 weeks approximately 40 years ago.

First, a question for StuBob: How does that work? Does any of the original cellular material remain? Second, what do you think of Healy’s lawsuit?