In July 2009 My wife and I took our ten year old boy to the emergency room at Akron Children's Hospital, his blood glucose was well over 600 mg/dl as high as my machine could go.   As we spent two days at the hospital,  our young man was taken to the pediatric intensive care unit...to manage the huge amount of ketones (acid) that had developed in his bloodstream~~~ It occurred to me that embryonic stem cell research opponents should come to this hospital or to any children's hospital in the world, and explain to the parents of these children:

Here is a list of questions we would like answered.

• Just why they would rather throw these valuable embryonic stem cells in the trash, rather than allow them to be used to find cures for their children.

• Just tell us rationally how embryonic stem cells are more valuable than the lives of millions of children in hospitals or the 24 million children like my 10 year old son who will suffer for the rest of his life without embryonic stem cell research.

• Please explain to the parents how much better life will be raising a child who suffers!  Or perhaps you could pay for ALL the expenses associated with raising their handicapped son or daughter.

• Without embryonic stem cell research (the gold standard of stem cell research) many people will suffer needlessly.   Perhaps you could go to the burn unit of any hospital and take a look at the pain you are directly responsible for, by opposing embryonic stem cell research on "moral grounds".

• In this same Hospital there is a state of the art Childrens burn unit which houses our little children burned in some cases beyond recognition.  The only chance for a normal life lays in embryonic stem cell research.   Could any opponent of embryonic stem cell research go to this unit and explain to these children or to their parents exactly why these cells are more important than these childrens lives?

We say just the opposite of the moral grounds argument is true:  If you are against embryonic stem cell research--you are sick, perhaps you enjoy people suffering,  pain in others, perhaps the sight of someone bound to a wheelchair excites you..perhaps they will suffer enough to pay pew rental, we honestly do not understand the moral grounds argument-- because it is irrational, unreasonable, and completely out of touch with reality.