I am writing on behalf of the article concerning embryonic stem cells. I am a registered nurse who, while seeing home health patients on a stormy morning, wrecked [my vehicle] and broke my back, leaving me a T-10 paraplegic.
I am very discouraged with all these people who disapprove of this research. I am not so much discouraged for myself, because I am 31 years old, but there are many children who, due to MVAs [motor vehicle accidents] or even brain tumors, are now paralyzed. Until there is a cure for paralysis, some of these children will never know what it is like to have their back scratched, to walk on the cool sand on the beach at night, or to feel their children growing inside them if they are female.
These people criticize this research, but if someone very close to them was in this condition, or with other diseases this research may cure, I really feel strongly their views would change.
I have worked with many patients, some paralyzed and some with devastating diseases, who will never be able to live a normal life like others until some cures are found. I am a Christian also, and highly disapprove of abortion, but if these cells are destroyed anyway if not used for in
vitro, why not let someone try to find a cure for many diseases? Where's the wrong in that? I'm 100 percent sure that President Bush would change his views on this if someone close to him ended up in the situation I have ended up in. I just thank GOD it's me and not my child or someone I love.
Amy Chisom, R.N.
Bristol, Virginia
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