Preznit Jesus Rocks! has managed to cave in to the christo-fascists about everything...and now some of the most conservitard republicans (Duke Cunningham, Nancy Reagan) are questioning the wisdom of blocking stem cell research.
There is a possible cure waiting in the wings for people with juvenile diabetes, Alzheimer’s, ALS, Parkinson’s, heart disease, cancer, as well as spinal-cord injuries. It’s called stem-cell research. At the moment things are stalled at research, just short of moving forward to applying the technology and changing millions of lives. Why? The White House has said it will not release federal funds for embryonic stem-cell research.
On the night of May 8, my mother, Nancy Reagan, was given an award for caregiving at a Beverly Hills fund-raiser for stem-cell research. “We have lost so much time,” she said when accepting her award. “I just can’t bear to lose any more.”
Ahhh, but there are billions who can be converted to belief in Fearless Leader's Invisible Cloud Being of choice...and those pesky stem cells, why they're people too! Pat Robertson told him so.
There is something this administration might not have counted on: the determination of the human spirit. When it comes to life and health, and freedom from disease, people will not be deterred. If there is no federal funding, the money will come from other places. Memo to the White House: people will not allow their children to live with juvenile diabetes when there is a potential cure that could free them and restore their bodies to health. My family has watched my father, once called "The Great Communicator," vanish into the shadows of Alzheimer’s; we are only one of many families who know the cruelty of this disease. My mother has taken her sorrow, her loss, and stood up for the one cure that can prevent people in the future from knowing this agony. George W. Bush, though he may want to try, can never stand in the way of people who want to banish the diseases that are stealing so much.
Poor deluded Patti Davis, of course Preznit Jesus Rocks! can't stand in her way...but Karl Rove can and will if he thinks that it will cost him the christo-fascists. Jeez, you'd think she knew presidents or sumpin'.
posted by Jo Fish on 05.17.04 at 11:17 PM
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Here in New Jersey, Governor McGreevey signed a bill into law that enables our state to do its own stem cell research. The feds won't stop it no matter how hard they try. Funding is always the issue, and the states have less individually than the federal government has from the collective states, but I was thinking that states could form their own communities within the larger community. Why couldn't NJ and Mass and Vermont and so on get together in a multi-state parlay to fund the research?
posted by: dean on 05.18.04 at 09:57 AM [permalink]
