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 : 
  

  
EC3007
  



  

  
Submitter : 
  

  
Ms. Laura Serafin-Ward
  

  
Date & Time: 
  

  
12/12/2006 09:12:56
  



  

  
Organization : 
  

  
Ms. Laura Serafin-Ward
  



  

  
Category : 
  

  
Individual Consumer
  



  

  
Issue Areas/Comments 
  


  

  


  

  
GENERAL
  


  

  



  

  
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 I am strongly opposed to using aborted fetuses in vaccines. It is one thing for a person to donate their body to science; but it is a violation of ethics for science to take a person's body without his/her consent. I am afraid that allowing drug companies to use aborted fetuses for vaccines would open the door to a practice of selling human bodies -which is universally condemned as unethical. To use dead children in medicine is closer to cannibalism than sound science especially when there are other alternatives.