Another Letter: Throwing away embryos

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Letters to the editor
Oakville-Mehlville Journal,South City Journal,South County Journal,South Side Journal,Southwest City Journal,Southwest County Journal
08/09/2006

To the editor:

The Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative that will likely appear on the November ballot is very confusing and that is exactly what those wanting it passed are hoping for.

They claim early stem cell research does not involve abortions, rather left-over fertilized clinic embryos that would very likely be thrown away. These embryos are four to five days old. They are very small and would fit on the head of a pin. Not more than a mere speck of dust.

However, after these embryos are five days old, they will turn six days old, then seven, eight, etc. This process will continue for nine months until a child is born. Before you know it, we will celebrate the child's first birthday. We were all four- and five-day- old embryos. We have continued to grow older until this moment when you are reading this letter. Nobody threw us away or killed us so they could do research on us.

We realized killing Jews was wrong. We then went after unborn babies because no one could "prove" it was a child. Now we can. Therefore, we go after four- and five-day-old embryos. These are four- and five-day-old people. Throwing away these embryos is not the answer. If we threw our four- and five-year-old children away, we would be jailed and rightly so. We as a society need not be involved in the creation of people. We are not the extremists. Changing the Missouri Constitution is extreme.

Marilyn Angeli
St. Louis

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