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 : 
  

  
EC2439
  



  

  
Submitter : 
  

  
Dr. Stanley Bukowski
  

  
Date & Time: 
  

  
12/01/2006 08:12:38
  



  

  
Organization : 
  

  
none
  



  

  
Category : 
  

  
Health Professional
  



  

  
Issue Areas/Comments 
  


  

  


  

  
GENERAL
  


  

  



  

  
GENERAL
  


  

  



  

  
 Dear Sirs:



   I implore you not to allow the use of embryonic cell lines to make vaccines. 



   These are derived from human beings who were sacrificed simply because they lacked a mere nine more months (or less!) of growth and differentiation. For this reason alone, they were discounted as human beings when their humanity stood in the way of their commercialization by those who have survived to adulthood.



   Those embryos had all of the attributes of human beings: they were intact, normally functioning organisms composed solely of complete human cells, each cell having a full complement of 46 matched human chromosomes; they were growing and differentiating; they had intact and effective metabolic processes. ALL they lacked were growth and differentiation, and only for six to nine months. ALL they needed was the exquisitely adapted environment and the elegant metabolic sustenance that you, I, and every other person alive has had in their mother's womb.



   A premature infant has exactly the same human essence as a blastocyst or embryo, though at a stage far more differentiated, and much further grown. In fact, a child is also exactly the same, again larger and more differentiated, lacking only further differentiation and growth before becoming an adult. Human child, human preemie, human embryo, human blastocyst, human conceptus: all deserve the same respect, love and protection.



   It is reminiscent of the medical experimentation of the Holocaust of World War II to use human embryonic cell lines to develop vaccines. To obtain cell lines by the sacrifice of unique human embryos is to endorse the reduction of the tiniest human beings to 'factories for biologics'. The result of this blind dehumanization of our own species is the dehumanization of ourselves.  Our contempt for other voiceless members of our society already attests to this: the vegetative person, the demented person, the newborn, even the child.



   Is it any wonder that children are abused and killed by their families and foster families for disobedience? After all, if their embryonic sisters and brothers are destroyed to make vaccines without having transgressed any rule, surely the bigger children can be killed for actually doing something wrong.



   Witness seven-year-old Nixzmary Brown of New York City, who was abused and finally killed by a family member. She had misbehaved, pulling her siblings' hair and throwing food on the floor. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/382129p-324447c.html



   Our dehumanization of children is simply one step away from our dehumanization of embryos. 




  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  








  

  
    The truth is we savage both groups because they are smaller and weaker than adults, and are voiceless. A scientist who pulls apart an embryo does it on the exact same philosophical and rational basis as an adult who abuses and kills a child for his own satisfaction or profit. 



   They both do it because they can get away with it: they are bigger and stronger and no one will call them to account for it. They both commit a grave injustice against the defenseless human being.



   We can close our eyes to this truth only for so long. The evil that we do inevitably returns to us. Is it any wonder that young Americans who have survived the uterine destruction of one third of their own generation, vent their rage by unprecedented rates of suicide and recurring schoolhouse semiautomatic gunfire? Is it any wonder that we abuse our children, our women and old people, kill our sick and weak? You and I may be old, sick and weak some day.



   I beg you, do not contribute to the dehumanization of our medical profession and pharmaceutical industry. Do not contribute to the dehumanization of our society.



   Do not allow the exploitation of the defenseless human in his earliest form. He is our brother and sister; we do to ourselves what we do to him.