MailOnline (excerpts):  The Obama administration is considering whether scientists should inject healthy children with the anthrax vaccine to see if it would protect them from a bioterrorism attack.  A working group of federal advisers endorsed testing last month and the National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) will meet on Friday to vote on its recommendation.  But critics have called the plans unethical, unnecessary and dangerous, and children should only be vaccinated in the face of an actual threat.  Daniel B. Fagbuyiof, of the Children's National Medicine Center in Washington, told the Washington Post, "At the end of the day, do we want to wait for an attack and give it it millions and millions of children and collect data at that time?  Or do we want to say, How do we best protect our children?  We can take care of grandma and grandpa, uncle and auntie; but right now we have nothing for the children."  

Joel Frader, a pediatrician and bioethicist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine told the Post, "It would be difficult to justify testing it on kids simply on the hypothetical possibility that there might be an attack."  Anthrax is an infection caused by a bacteria which is relatively easy to produce and distribute.  In 1998, the Pentagon began an anthrax immunization program in the military, but it was halted over concerns on the vaccine's safety.  Personnel currently assigned to bioterrorism activities, including defense, are required to have anthrax vaccines, as well as those deployed for 15 days or more in the Middle East and South Korea.  The federal government has spent 1.1 billion to stockpile the anthrax in case of an attack.  If the NBSB approves the testing, the FDA, National Institutes of Health and other agencies will meet to work out how many children would be studied, at what age and what dose.  

Commentary:  I don't think I need to write a book here.  I'm just going to say that, if the Pentagon halted anthrax immunizations because of SAFETY CONCERNS, why would anyone suggest giving it unnecessarily to children in the US?  I wonder whose children they are planning to test this vaccine on.  It seems to me they could only begin with children taken into custody by governmental children's services agencies and government run orphanages; because parents throughout the US would most likely would absolutely put their foot down.  It seems the children of the poor and displaced are in line for more suffering once again, if this plan is approved.  I don't think Obama will vaccinate his two girls and wait to see if anything bad happens to them first!  Or, how about only including the children of the Obama administration employees?  I think not.  The Bible says, "He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor" Proverbs 13:41.