"It's unethical to end one life in pursuit of helping others," writes U.S. Rep. Steve King (June 5 opinion).
The life King is writing about is a clump of cells that would be the size of the period at the end of this sentence. I am not taking either side on this debate, but I would like King to explain how he arrives at whose life should not be sacrificed.
He is among the many who see nothing wrong with sending a loving son, father or husband to "end their life in pursuit of helping others" in Iraq. The president has sent almost 2,000 Americans to die to help people who don't appear to want our help. How many cures for dreaded diseases will be found from those lives sacrificed in Iraq?
These were not 2,000 tiny clumps of cells. These were adults in the prime of their lives with wives and children who needed them. These were young men who were in their early years of adulthood, leaving parents who will never see what their son or daughter might have grown to be.
King says it is wrong to search for a cure with a tiny cluster of cells. But he is not against sending men and women to die in search of land that contains oil.
-Anna Louise Woods,
Ankeny.
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