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This story brings getting a dose of your own medicine to a new level.

Months after donating $1 million to help develop the Moderna vaccine,

Dolly Parton received her shot of the vaccine this week.

She also recorded a version of her classic song, Jolene, before receiving her shot, singing,

Vaccine, Vaccine, Vaccine, Vaccine, I'm begging you. Please don't hesitate. In other vaccine news,

the newly approved Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine is absolutely a game changer,

according to a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

We should all be encouraged that we now have three excellent vaccines available to administer

to Americans all across this country, he said. I expect we'll be moving a lot faster with

J&J on board. However, the Archdiocese of New Orleans is urging Catholics

to avoid the J&J vaccine, calling it morally compromised. Their statement claims that it

uses the abortion-derives cell line in development and production of the vaccine, as well as the

testing.

When the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were developed several months ago, I reported that they

used cells from the H.E.K. 293T fetal cell line in the testing process, though neither

included such cells in the vaccines themselves.

This tissue was acquired in the Netherlands in the 1970s, but records pertaining to its origins

were lost. As a result, it is not known whether the tissue came from an elective abortion

or a spontaneous miscarriage.

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