Wrong, again

The president has done an excellent job of selling his position on stem-cell research. Facts, research or science mean nothing to him. He wants everyone to just follow his lead. He'll try to win you over with sound bites and cynical displays of innocent children. There are already millions of people in this country who have buyer's remorse where this president is concerned, and the numbers grow every time he pulls a stunt like he did the day he vetoed money for stem-cell research. Those children Bush assembled around him the day he vetoed the stem-cell bill are examples of the very few born from embryos donated by people who had not used all of their own. However, few people give unwanted embryos to strangers. They leave them in storage where they further degrade until they must be destroyed. The stem cells the writer says are available are few in number and have been degraded and other sources are not plentiful enough. The stem cells that researchers want to use would otherwise be thrown out with medical waste. Let's see: choice between being used to help cure people suffering from debilitating disease or being thrown out with medical waste. Which makes more sense? I happen to believe God gave us brains and hearts, and the ability to use them to solve problems. Don't forget there was a time when the Catholic church was opposed to heart surgery because it believed it was against God's will for anyone to tamper with the heart. Bettie J. Reina, Buena Vista Twp - Published in the courier Post, August 12, 2006