Wow, I didn't realise a simple practical question was going to turn into a referendum on my entire life. Thanks to those who have let me know that the centres don't know what they're going to get until the vaccines arrive. I guess I'll just have to book an appointment and hope I get lucky and go home again if not. Shame if I had to waste an appointment someone else could have had, but there you go.
I'm perfectly aware of Catholic teaching on the matter. It's actually not "Hey, man, we're saving lives here, it's all cool." The media almost never reports anything to do with the Pope accurately, fyi, and Catholicism really isn't about just doing everything the Pope does. I really don't want this thread to turn into a pile on of people who don't have the same beliefs about the sanctity of life that I do calling me an idiot.
In brief, the Catholic Church teaches that vaccines are a matter for your individual conscience, and you are to weigh up the bad (e.g. the vaccine's relationship however close or far with abortion) with the good (e.g. the good to society). Quote from link below:
"there is a grave responsibility to use alternative vaccines and to make a conscientious objection with regard to those which have moral problems" - there is an alternative vaccine (Pfizer/Moderna vs AstraZeneca/Oxford), and I would like to exercise my right to have that one, and I'm quite happy to accept some cost to myself to do so.
I am very low risk (apart from one time having very mild GD which has put my in group 6 almost on a technicality), don't work, not planning to go to any football matches or warehouse acid raves in the near future. I totally agree that "like everyone else you are expected to have whatever is there on the day" ... or not have it. I really don't know what you imagine I would do other than just say "Oh well" and go home? Until they send the army round to strap me down and forcibly inject me (JOKE!) I've always got the choice to not have it. I don't expect anyone to a seamless equivalent service to all regardless of religious position wrt available medications , I just (wrongly) assumed that different centres would be allocated different kinds of vaccine and I'd be able to find out in advance. I'm quite happy to personally deal with the consequences of not having it or having to wait.
For those actually interested, I think this link that @RoseAndRose posted above is great: www.immunize.org/talking-about-vaccines/vaticandocument.htm This video is also good, although a little out of date: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeScAapnPGE&ab_channel=BreakingInTheHabit
Anyone who thinks they know more than I do about my own personal beliefs can, I guess, answer their own further questions, as they know so much and official Catholic teaching (in all its nuances) is widely available.