As usual I am wondering about how selective the information is that will be fed to the electorate. I am in a difficult position to argue against stem cell research.

I have always been against abortions and invitro fertilization. Because President Bush was not the president when the Supreme Court decided in favor of Wade does not imply that he approved of the Supreme Court's decision. Nor was he in office when invtro fertilization became available. In Minnesota, a young woman and her husband recently watched their sextuplets (6 babies) die off one by one. You and I can't possibly understand the agony this young couple went through spending day after day for 2 weeks watching their hopes of having children, conceived through in vitro fertilization, as each child was claimed by death. Everyone supports everyone elses wants because they have the same wants. What about the responsibilities of allowing everyone their wants?

If you look on children as a right to have and not a gift given to teach you how to care more for someone more than you care for yourself, you support assisted conception. Because Bush cannot turn back the hands of time is no reason to assume he supports assisted conception. He cannot argue from a prolife position because even a president cannot push back the turn of the popular vote.

The woman's right's movement ushered in invitro fertilization and abortion. Because some women felt devalued by society they began to successfully force society to grant them equal status as men. Woman demanded equal wages as men received for equal jobs, welfare boomed as young women chose to make babies in an environment that encouraged love, not war. daycare became a organized form of work, sexually confused people, confused about their gender, demanded the right to have their gender surgically altered and the entire two parent family system that had worked for hundreds of generations was destroyed.

Divorce is now over 50%, couples are finding that in order to make it financially, both couples must work, stressing out both parents and forcing children to follow strict schedules filled with soccer games, baseball, gymnastics and other activities by parents who both work and want the children's schedules to be to full so they won't have to worry about what the children are doing while they make their career their primary focus in life, other children sit home alone watching television which is their parent from whom they learn their values, children join gangs because they have to fill their need to be a part of a family.

Today we are having families with record foreclosures of their mortgages, inflation of gas prices, making it harder and harder for two parents to support a family. The woman's choice to work or stay home no longer exists. Both parents must work. An education beyond high school no longer has value as so many people have one. Employers want workers with education and experience. With both parents working the workforce has swelled to the point where finding a job is harder.

Will our generation continue to demand our rights and waive the responsibilities, telling our government that it is their responsibility to see to it we are able to achieve our rights? Do we continue to impose the right to bear children or will we learn that children are a gift for us to care for and not make them bear the responsibility of making us feel whole?

The generation following us is beginning to hold on dearly to responsibility over rights. They spent their entire childhood trying to satisfy parents who have high expectations of them and do not wish to do the same to their children. Some of our children are having children to have the love they lacked from their parents. It seems sad that such high expectations should be put on a newborn baby. If the baby doesn't fill the childmother's expectations, at best he is turned over to the grandparents to raise, at worst he is thrown in a garbage dumpster or in a river to die.

I cannot support, and have never supported the miracle of childbirth being created as a gift and not as a right.

Sincerely,
Vicky Lynn