From Gallup:
Next, I'm going to read you a list of issues. Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, for each one, please tell me whether you personally believe that in general it is morally acceptable or morally wrong. How about -- [RANDOM ORDER]?
L. Medical research using stem cells obtained from human embryos
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2006 May 8-11 | 61 | 30 | 3 | * | 6 |
So, the next time, Bush, you decide to veto funding for research that can, in the long term, help millions of people--instead of dragging out some test tube babies--pretty, perfect, healthy, rich republican children (you don't seem to take issue with those who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to create more embryos than they need in pursuit of a "natural born child" when our orphanages, and orphanages worldwide, are full) for your stump speech, why don't you surround yourself with children with diabetes...paraplegic children. Children from families struggling to get by, to pay the medical bills, to make their child feel happy and healthy and loved no matter what their disability? Why don't you take a minute and look into their eyes?
Why don't you take a few minutes to talk to Nancy ? To Ron, Jr.?
Tell them why you won't let the federal government work to help people with alzheimers.
Tell me why you won't help families who have to watch their parent's minds age away into a fog?
Your argument--"It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect."
Cancer. Alzheimers. Parkinsons. Paralysis. They would fade away faster if you would just wise up.
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When Reagan was elected, one of the first things he decided to cut from the budget was the monies for mental health and brain studies that Rosalynn Carter worked so hard for, and testifified before Congress to get. I found it ironic that he himself ended up with Alzheimer's.
I was in no way happy that the man suffered from it, nor that his family and loved ones had to witness the terrible reality of the disease. But perhaps there was a bit of karma in that.
I don't wish anything of the kind on Pres. Bush either. But you know good and well that his life will be touched in some way by the diseases and conditions that stem cell research could help or maybe even, one day, prevent.
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