Letters to the Editor

A friend let me know that my senior pastor has a letter to the editor in yesterday's News Journal.

S.B. 5 will reduce life and death to a commodity

Last April, my unborn grandson had a rare heart disease that did not allow enough blood into the left side of his heart. Untreated, he would have half a heart at birth and face an early death.

Doctors passed a thin wire through my daughter-in-law's abdomen and uterus, and into the child's chest and grape-sized heart. They inflated a tiny balloon and enlarged his aortic valve.

For several hours it looked as if they succeeded, but his heart rate slowed. Alexander died. We saw him 36 hours later, stillborn, My family's features over four generations were unmistakable. We held him, prayed, wept and handed over his body for autopsy.

Not far from where that happened abortion was killing healthy, unborn children at Alexander's stage of development.

Embryonic stem cell research destroys human life at its earliest stage. Delaware Senate Bill 5 proposes to fund such research. Human life becomes a commodity.

Are we losing our soul in the name of freedom to pull human beings apart piece by piece and cell by cell?

Some say the gains are worth the sacrifice and moral discomfort. We can gain the whole world and still lose our soul as a people.

We have cause to be uneasy. We have cause to say no to Senate Bill 5.

Rev. Bo Matthews, Wilmington