Summary
President Barack Obama played the Christopher Reeve card Monday and lifted the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Americans are supposed to take from this a message that says the controversial research will lead to cures for horrible conditions and diseases, including paralysis. And really, who didn't like the late Christopher Reeve? We all wanted Reeve, injured in a horseback riding accident, to get up and walk again. So it's a simple message: fetal stem cell research good, opposition to federal funding bad. Anyone who would oppose the president's actions must want to keep people in wheelchairs and guarantee that anyone with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's has no hope for a cure.
Of course, it's nowhere near that simple. By lifting the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, Obama may have harmed his cause.See the full content of this document
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Our View: Stem Cell Research
Reasonable arguments have been made, in this controversy and others, which suggest it's inappropriate for government to fund activity that fundamentally violates the deeply h...
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