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I can’t believe that it’s actually necessary to argue that we should allow medical research that might give numerous people a fighting change to survive horrible diseases. But here we are. We live in an age where many things have been turned upside down.
I wrote the following letter on November 27, 2005 after attending Catholic Mass at a church in my neighborhood. I attended because I had heard that priests throughout Missouri had been instructed by their superiors to preach against a proposed Missouri Constitutional Amendment that would allow stem cell research to continue
Washington University in St. Louis is a major medical research center that conducts stem cell research. The Missouri legislature has regularly threatened to prohibit stem cell research in Missouri, giving rise to a proposed Amendment that is being promoted by The Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures.
MCLC describes the amendment as follows:
…Should Missouri patients have access to medical cures that are available to other Americans?
That’s the key issue that led a coalition of patient and medical groups to develop the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, a voter referendum measure proposed for the November 2006 statewide ballot.Stem cells could provide cures for diseases and injuries that afflict hundreds of thousands of Missouri children and adults and millions of other Americans – including diabetes, Parkinson’s, cancer, heart disease, ALS, sickle cell disease and spinal cord injury.
Unfortunately, some politicians in Jefferson City are trying to pass state laws that would ban
