Stem cell initiative: Ethics v. economics

From Saturday's Post Dispatch, we find this letter. (All emphasis below is mine):

Missouri Cures' half-hour documentary on stem cell research uses a sleight-of-hand magic trick to eliminate the word "embryonic" from its message, replacing it with the phrase "early stem cell." This artfully crafted attempt to remove the word "embryo" from the debate reflects the nefarious lengths to which our leaders will go to avoid the truth.

Voters are being asked to walk into the booth and make a decision to vote to destroy embryos for the sole purpose of economic development in Missouri. This immutable point is completely ignored as the electorate is mystified in the trance of our medical and economic leaders.

Look into the future six months to a time when voters have approved this madness and the life within embryos is routinely destroyed: Will there be any frontier left to define what is not ethical?

While Missouri Cures dumps $10 million into brain-washing the public masses that embryonic stem cells are now early stem cells, those who have a strong ethical backbone are vilified as puritanical Neanderthals.

How far is the time when no ethical or moral argument will be accepted, and any and all scientific activity will automatically be performed?

To clarify perspectives as we step into the voting booth, we should imagine ourselves on our deathbed and ask what we will wish we had chosen.

Christopher D. Desloge | Villa Ridge

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The politically motivated "documentary" ads run by the MCLC (Missouri Coalition for Lobotomizing Citizens) can only be seen as demonic, the embracing of evil to perpetuate the culture of death, wherein certain individuals seek to make themselves gods, deciding who is worthy of life and who is unworthy of life. If I'm not mistaken, I seem to recall that one of the 20th century's purveyors of death determined that some deserved no life whatsoever - his term was "life unworthy of life"...Is that not what we are witnessing today?