As a young girl I watched a family member die of ALS. Throughout the entire ALS journey, the ALS Association provided resources and community that were incredibly comforting to the family. It costs a minimum of $200,000 a year to live with ALS. The ALS Association works to help mitigate some of that financial burden for individuals with ALS. They also provide resources such as wheelchairs, adapted cars, medicine, doctors, and most importantly a community where people whose lives have been affected by ALS can go for support. Though embryonic stem cell research is an incredibly important topic, this article makes it seem as if that's the only purpose of the ALS Association, when in reality the ALS Association is so much more than a source of funding for researchers. (Side note: this article strongly implies that researchers are performing abortions to further their research. This is in fact illegal. All collected material is gathered from abortions that would have happened anyway, however wrong)>

Many people are asking how a Christian who has experienced ALS in some way would feel about this article. I can tell you that this article upset me like no other. The ALS Association is the only ALS patient advocacy group in the country. They serve as a source of comfort and aid for those who are hurting more deeply than some will ever know. To attempt to lead others to believe otherwise is a manipulation of the facts at best and ignorance at worst. (Note: you can dictate where your dollars go within the organization. If you don't want your money going towards research you can dictate that it won't.)