Dear Editor:
The national Alzheimer Association searches for a solution to a serious and destructive human illness.
However, a good objective does not justify any means to obtain that purpose unless the means are morally correct.
Unfortunately, the national Alzheimer Association is willing to use embryonic stem cell research: "The Alzheimer's Association policy supports and encourages any legitimate scientific avenue that offers the potential to advance this goal, including human embryonic stem cell research; and, we oppose any restriction or limitation on research, provided that appropriate scientific review, and ethical and oversight guidelines and compliance are in place."
Embryonic stem cells are part of a living human being. They should not be the object of the direct killing of an innocent human being. Science and ethics never justify such an objective.