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Misunderstanding or Misleading
We all felt the loss when we heard that Christopher Reeve had passed away. The headline I saw simply said: Superman is Dead. Surely, he will be missed.
I was personally shocked by Vice Presidential Candidate John Edward’s response. I honestly thought I had misunderstood what I had just heard.
In a speech at a high school in Newton, Iowa, on Monday, he said, “We will stop juvenile diabetes, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other debilitating diseases.� (Referring to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research). “When John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve are going to get up out of that wheel chair and walk again.�
John Kerry said in the second debate that scientists have told him, “We have the option� of curing Parkinson’s, diabetes, and spinal cord injuries using embryonic stem cells.
Princeton University Professor Robert P. George insists no scientists – not even those most aggressively in favor of the research that destroys embryos – have ever told Kerry any such thing. Dr. George said, in a column for National Review Online, “What Kerry has done here is told the big lie about embryonic stem cells.� He said the claim is “outrageous.�
He went on to say, “For months now, the Kerry Campaign and its surrogates, such as Ron Reagan, Jr., have cruelly led suffering people to believe that cures for their diseases are just around the corner. All we have to do is replace Bush with Kerry, open the federal funding spigot, and presto! The blind see and the lame walk. The Kerry’s Campaign’s hyping of embryo-destructive research for political gain is the cruelest and most shameful episode in the story of the 2004 election.�
Actually Christopher Reeve, in a Reader’s Digest interview earlier this year had expressed doubt about the effectiveness of embryonic stem cell research.
Here is the bottom line.
- There is no ban on embryonic stem cell research. President Bush has withheld federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
- Studies that have been funded with state and private money have not ever yielded clinical trials. No one, anywhere, has any planning to apply embryonic stem cells.
- Stem cells from adults or umbilical cords have yielded remarkable results.
So – is this just a big misunderstanding by the liberals or is it intended to be misleading?
Who knows?
Herbert Hoover said, “No public man can be a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no man’s land between honesty and dishonesty.�
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Gary Randall
President & Chairman
Faith and Freedom Foundation
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