Best intentions don't
justify stem cell research

Copyright © 2006 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.

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Regarding stem cell research, destroying human life at any time prior to its ability to sustain itself is murder. To the thinking mind, the term "harvesting" is descriptive enough to prevent legalization. We are messing with life itself, believing ourselves so scientifically advanced that we can get away with it. It's just a matter of time before the legalized slaughter of the lambs via abortion finds us unprepared for the ultimate results: A world deprived of what would have been, had life been allowed.

Those who state that a cure for illness and birth defects is reason enough for passage are disregarding the fact that continued research without stem cells will ultimately find cures. It takes longer.

Impatience with the slower speed of natural discovery has created selfish expectations in America, and I hope Bush vetoes this bill allowing the taking of human life to sustain human life. (Editor's note: Bush vetoed the bill Wednesday.) God be with our brave soldiers fighting worldwide for freedom of many Americans to continue to rage upon humankind via such legislation. I will live with my early Alzheimer's condition any day, not demanding that stem cell research cure me. How sad and weak we are, expecting the defenseless to provide our cures in this day and age.

My beloved grandchildren are proof enough for me that lives lost via abortion and stem cell research would have been lives loved, had their biological parents not made the easiest choice in today's McDonald's society, here today, gone tomorrow, whatever the reason.

Elizabeth Martin

Canaan