2006D-0383
  

  
 Characterization and Qualification of Cell Substrates and Other Biological Starting Materials Used in the Production of Viral Vaccines for the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases

  


  

  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  
FDA Comment Number : 
  

  
EC4511
  



  

  
Submitter : 
  

  
Mr. Benedict AUSTEN
  

  
Date & Time: 
  

  
12/27/2006 09:12:45
  



  

  
Organization : 
  

  
parish priest in Roman Catholic diocese
  



  

  
Category : 
  

  
Individual Consumer
  



  

  
Issue Areas/Comments 
  


  

  


  

  
GENERAL
  


  

  



  

  
GENERAL
  


  

  



  

  
 There is something noble in the use of certain human organs for the welfare of other human beings and this is governed by personal permission (protected by law). But we are horrified by reports of abuse of prisoners (for instance), executed to obtain and sell organs.

It is totally repugnant, not only emotionally but ethically, to countenance the pharmaceutical industry swooping upon the least protected and most vulnerable of human beings - aborted children - & exploiting fetal cell lines even for ostensibly 'good' causes (vaccines,) let alone for trivial human requirements like 'beauty' products.

I shall certainly protest vigorously against companies and products that use aborted fetal cell lines. This is in itself contempt for human nature but also a further [if unconscious] fostering of the culture of death and promotion of the prevalent idea that human beings, lacking economic value, lack any value