May 7, 2007

The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

Embryonic stem cell research is truly a life-giving process because of the extraordinary potential for healing living, breathing human beings with names, faces, and families. It could hold the key to curing diseases that no other research could cure, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, juvenile diabetes, spinal cord injuries, and many others.

How in the name of promoting life can you justify not using stem cells from embryos, which uniquely can become any other kind of cell, for a life-giving purpose when those embryos are going to be discarded anyway by fertility clinics who can’t use them?

I, and 8,578 people who have written to me expressing their support for this legislation, respectfully urge you to sign The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 to allow our scientists to pursue the full promise of embryonic stem cell research.

Sincerely,
Carl Levin

Enclosure: CD-ROM containing the names of all 8,578 co-signers

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